Founded in 1947, the Writing Seminars is the second-oldest creative writing program in the United States and has always been ranked highly in the field. The department is celebrated for the quality of its faculty and its small classes. No course is lecture-sized; all are seminars.
Study at one of the first major academic institutions to offer a degree for writers.
Four poets and four fiction writers are admitted annually to this selective two-year program.
The department is celebrated for the quality of its faculty and its small classes. No course is lecture-sized; all are seminars.
Associate Teaching Professor Shannon Robinson has been named on the Longlist for the 2025 PEN America Literary Awards. Her book The Ill-Fitting Skin is up for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham […]
The Writing Seminars is happy to announce that Adriana Beltrano, MFA ’26, has been named a finalist for the Jake Adam York Prize for her manuscript Heaven Then Information. Read the […]
Associate Teaching Professor Bruce Snider‘s forthcoming poetry collection, Blood Harmony, has been selected as the winner of the Four Lakes Prize in Poetry by Wisconsin Poetry Series editors Sean Bishop […]