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Creative Writing Initiatives

Initiatives as of february 2021.

• We are, with the support of the Lewis Center and the Office of the Dean of Faculty, in the process of making tenured as well as tenure-track hires in order to further diversify our faculty.
• We will hold a town-hall meeting designed for CWR faculty, students, and staff at least annually, preceded by a training/lecture/teach-in by an invited writer/teacher that centers BIPOC experiences and anti-racism, and facilitated by that guest.
• We will redouble our collaboration with existing BIPOC writers’ reading series in other departments, programs, and centers at the University, looking for opportunities to co-sponsor and cross-promote these readings, and continue to feature BIPOC writers in the two reading series organized by our program.
• The former Committee on Race and the Arts has been replaced by the LCA Climate and Inclusion Committee. This committee plans to offer regular reports of its activities and to make its meetings open to any LCA community members on a regular basis.The Creative Writing Program will stay abreast of the Climate and Inclusion Committee and its activities.
• In cooperation with the Lewis Center, we will reach out to students through programs, centers, and affinity groups in advance of every application and registration deadline each semester, in order to publicize our offerings more widely.
• We will make our application process transparent and are in the process of revising our application guidelines.
• As we have done for the past 5 years, we will offer at least one course that focuses on writing and race each year, which will be open to beginning as well as advanced students.. We will promote these classes vigorously and ask the registrar to make them more apparent to students.
• We will actively work with African American Studies, Program in Latin American Studies, and Asian American Studies along with Princeton Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative to cross-list courses and incorporate what we learn from these programs, departments, and initiatives.
• We will work with residential college(s) to explore the possibility of establishing a writing/study room on campus with a library dedicated to the works of BIPOC authors.
• We will offer a program each year that brings publisher(s), agent(s) and writers to speak with current students on publishing and ethics.
• Professor Rowan Ricardo Phillips is offering a one-session intensive this spring Co-presented by the LCA and the Center for Career Development focusing on different careers or ways to make a living as a write and practical life management tips to consider as students build a writing career. We will also develop and offer a writing careers panel that includes but is not limited to MFA programs.
• With the Trenton Public Library, where we already have an established tie, we will establish a program that enables current students to offer workshop(s) with high school students – these may be in Spanish or English.
• In coordination with the Lewis Center, we are creating a network of mentors, which may include alumni who identify as BIPOC, who are committed to diversity and inclusion.
• We will make available—to all faculty—regular anti-racist trainings by an outside thinker about creative writing and anti-racist practices.
• We are in the process of compiling inclusive workshop practices that can be adapted for any CWR course and will convene faculty brown-bag lunch meetings specifically to share BIPOC-centered practices that have worked in our individual classes.
• Suggested classroom practices will be communicated to all new faculty at hire for their own adaptation.
• The Lewis Center has established a completely anonymous portal through which to share thoughts, suggestions, concerns, or comments on classroom experiences . There is also information available on University Title IX and sexual misconduct resources and reporting mechanisms . All faculty will be encouraged to include this information and link in their syllabi.

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One of the Best Classes at Princeton: Creative Writing 201

April 2, 2020.

One of my favorite classes at Princeton is “CWR201: Creative Writing – Poetry,” a class I’m taking with Professor Jenny Xie. As a computer science engineering student, I’m often deluged with problem sets and programming projects. However, I’ve always been a writer at heart. In high school, I was heavily involved in poetry, and I would often use writing to reflect and recoup.

I tried to continue my writing habits on campus, but, at times, I would struggle to find the time and headspace. I also wanted to push my work in new directions and challenge my writing paradigms.

CWR201, and Princeton’s Program in Creative Writing  in general, is excellent in this regard. Every Tuesday afternoon, in a brightly lit classroom overlooking Maya Lin’s new earthwork installation, I participate in a three-hour seminar alongside seven other students. I know three hours seems like a long time, trust me I had my reservations! But from Professor Xie’s opening words, I was totally absorbed. Students in every section of CWR201 work with and learn from distinguished poets: as an award-winning and published poet, Professor Xie brings valuable experience and wisdom for anyone interested in the poetry community. She also has a way with words that’s incredibly refreshing after so many hours of boiled-down technical terminology experienced in computer science classes.

Everyone in the class, too, has unique voices. We all came in with varying levels of experience with poetry, making our class atmosphere diverse and relaxed. Each week, we read deeply into a poetry packet organized around different themes, in addition to devoting time to workshopping each other’s poems.

Having a class where the only assignments are to read wonderful contemporary poetry and write your own, was exactly what I needed. I’ve been writing a lot more recently, creating words that I feel proud of. In the relentless forward movement of Princeton, it’s sometimes necessary to sit down and reflect. Throughout my ten weeks in class, I’ve found new ways of expressing myself, and through thoughtful workshop feedback from my professor and classmates, I’ve delved deeper into what I’ve written. One of my proudest moments this year was when I had my work from class published in The Nassau Weekly , one of Princeton’s main campus publications.  

Because CWR201 is graded on a Pass/D-Grade/Fail basis only, it’s a class where students are encouraged to take risks and push boundaries. It doesn’t demand much of your time, but you’ll find that the time you do spend yields so much. I’ve created poetry I’m proud of, made new friends and connected with a professor I truly respect. If that’s not what Princeton is about, then I don’t know what is.

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Creative Reactions Contest

A contest designed to capture the impact of music, as perceived by Princeton University undergraduate and graduate student writers and artists.

Dedicated to the memory of Vera Sharpe Kohn . Hosted by the Student Ambassadors of Princeton University Concerts.

2023-24 Contest

The 2023-24 iteration of the Creative Reactions Contest is organized as part of the Impromptu Challenge .

Engaging with Music: About the Creative Reactions Program

It all started in February 2015, when over one hundred undergraduate and graduate students signed up for the first ever Creative Reactions Writing Contest. Conceived by the Student Ambassadors of Princeton University Concerts, this writing contest gave students a free ticket to attend a Princeton University Concert in the legendary Alexander Hall, in return for a creative written response to the performance—and a chance to win a cash prize. The wonderfully diverse group of submissions brought together judges from many corners of the Princeton community, including professors in the Creative Writing Program and Music Department, the owner of Labyrinth Bookstore, and long-standing community audience members.

The enthusiastic response to this novel initiative made clear that students were eager to extend the concert experience beyond the walls of Alexander Hall, and to share their passion for or curiosity about music with the community at large. Princeton University Concerts (PUC) has developed the Creative Reactions Program in order to provide such an opportunity to all Princeton University students. While continuing the Creative Reactions Contest on an annual basis, now expanded to include other art forms, this program will also present various other means through which students will be able to harness their creative talents in their engagement with music on campus. This includes a student-designed and student-written season brochure, opportunities for writing to be included in printed programs, and more.

Past Winners

First prize winner ($1000).

Youngseo Lee ’25 – “Haikus for Beauty After All”

SECOND PRIZE Winner ($500)

Yaashree Himatsingka ’24 – “Swamp”

HONORABLE MENTION Winner ($250)

Chas Brown ’26 – “Writing in the Dark”

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Auhjanae McGee ’23 – “Thank you, Alicia Keys”

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Will Hartman ’25 – “Everything, and What Comes After”

Alejandro Virue , Graduate Student – “Poor Funes … A Dialogue”

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Cassandra A. James ’23 – “Hummingbirds: A Pandemic Survival Guide”

Kerem Oktar, Graduate Student – “Everywhere, at the End of Time”

Emily V. Mesev , Graduate Student – “Apocalypse Lullaby”

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Maya Keren ’22 – “Reminder to Self:”

Alexander Kim ’21 – “Dancing about Architecture: Some Selections From, and Commentary On, My Music Listening Diary”

Konstantinos Konstantinou ’22 – “Little Fugue on Covid-19”

Alyssa Cai ’20 –  Serene Escape , colored pencil on paper, inspired by a Live Music Meditation with cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras

Honorable Mentions ($100)

Nazdar Ayzit ’23 –  Untitled ,  pencil on paper, inspired by an all-Beethoven program performed by violinist Isabelle Faust, cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras, and pianist Alexander Melnikov. 

Eliana Gagnon ’23 –  Untitled , charcoal/pencil on paper, inspired by a Performances Up Close program with pianist Gabriela Montero.

Sam Melton ’23  –  Untitled , colored pencil on paper, inspired by the Calidore String Quartet.

Helen So ’22 –  Untitled , digital, inspired by a Performances Up Close program with pianist Gabriela Montero.

Sandy Yang ’22 –  Untitled , watercolor, inspired by an all-Beethoven program performed by violinist Isabelle Faust, cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras, and pianist Alexander Melnikov.

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Crystal Liu ’20 –  “It’s Just Llike the Water: A Lyric Essay on Art and Faith”  inspired by Gustavo Dudamel’s residency.

Samuel Sebastian Cox ’18 – “Untitled” inspired by the Tenebrae Choir Sang Lee ’18 – “A Couple of Fiddles” inspired by “Shostakovich and the Black Monk: A Russian Fantasy”

Diana Chao ’21 – “Gaita (Gal)ega,” inspired by gaita player Cristina Pato Xin Rong Chua GS –  “Interlude,” inspired by “Shostakovich and the Black Monk: A Russian Fantasy” Jason Molesky GS   – “Tempest” inspired by violinist Jennifer Koh

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Anna Leader ’18 –  “love songs between balconies”  inspired by Mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton David Ting ’17 – “El barrio(lage) desconocido”  inspired by pianist violinist Augustin Hadelich & guitarist Pablo Sáinz-Villegas

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Isabella Bosetti ’18 –  “Translation/Aphasia,”  inspired by the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir Xin Chua GS –   “The Future Age,”  inspired by the Takács String Quartet Kirit Limperis ’19 –  “With the Percussionist,”  inspired by percussionist Colin Currie

Anna Leader ’18 –  “Untitled,”  inspired by the Arcanto String Quartet David Ting ’17 –  “Journey Between Worlds,”  inspired by pianist David Greilsammer 

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Magdalena Collum ’18 –  “Ritual, in four parts,”  inspired by pianist Igor Levit Emily Tu ’16 –  “Voice,”  inspired by pianist Igor Levit

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Susannah Sharpless ’15 –  “Space and Time,”  inspired by violinist Stefan Jackiw and pianist Anna Polonsky

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Trevor Klee ’15 –  “Untitled,”  inspired by pianist Marc-André Hamelin Lucas Mazzotti ’17 –  “Untitled,”  inspired by the Brentano String Quartet and Joyce DiDonato

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Jayne anne phillips wins 2024 pulitzer prize for fiction.

Written by Sara Epstein Moninger

Phillips, who earned an MFA in 1978, was recognized for her novel Night Watch . The Pulitzer judges described the book as “a beautifully rendered novel set in West Virginia’s Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in the aftermath of the Civil War where a severely wounded Union veteran, a 12-year-old girl, and her mother, long abused by a Confederate soldier, struggle to heal.”

Yiyun Li, who graduated with a Master of Science in 2000 and two MFAs (fiction and nonfiction) in 2005, was a finalist in fiction for her book of short stories Wednesday’s Child . Li’s short stories and novels have won numerous awards, including the PEN/Hemingway Award for A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for The Book of Goose . She currently serves as director of Princeton University’s creative writing program.

Additionally, two alumnae were recognized as finalists for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry:

Jorie Graham, who graduated with an MFA in 1978 and won a Pulitzer in 1996 for The Dream of the Unified Field , was named a finalist for To 2040 . Graham, one of the most celebrated poets of her generation, is a former longtime faculty member in the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Among her poetry collections are The End of Beauty , Place , and Sea Change . She currently is the Boylston Professor of Oratory and Rhetoric at Harvard University.

Robyn Schiff, who graduated with an MFA in 1999, was named a finalist for Information Desk: An Epic , a book-length poem in three parts set in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Schiff, who has been a visiting faculty member in the UI Department of English, also is the author of Worth , Revolver , and A Woman of Property , which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She teaches at the University of Chicago and co-edits Canarium Books.

Pulitzer Prizes are awarded annually to honor achievements in journalism, literature, and music. See the full list of 2024 Pulitzer winners .

Printing My Thesis!

April 11, 2024, amélie lemay.

As I reached the conclusion of writing my thesis, it was time to begin the exciting process of printing and binding it! In my department, it's traditional to present a bound copy to your advisor and an unbound copy to your second reader. I also wanted a copy for myself, so I ordered two printed theses and printed an unbound copy at Frist Campus Center.

There were more printing decisions to make than I initially anticipated. To begin, I headed to the Princeton Pequod website to place my order for the goldstamping (cover) and interior pages. Among the covers, I could select Traditional Hard Binding (most expensive but classic option), Laserfoil Suede Hard Binding (similar and slightly less expensive), or one of three soft cover options. At the Pequod printing center on campus, I was able to view examples of each of the cover types. I liked the Laserfoil Suede option best.

Then I could choose the paper type, which ranged from the budget "Regular White" to the pricey "100% Cotton Bright White," as well as which pages, if any, I wanted printed in color. I decided to go with the intermediate "25% Cotton Bright White," and I opted for the $10 upgrade to have four rather than three title lines so that my complete title would print. Printing a thesis is a bit like buying a car, in that the list price can really rise once you start selecting the add-ons...

The thesis printing service is surprisingly fast. Goldstamping must be ordered 24 hours ahead of time, but the interior pages can be ordered up until 9:00 a.m. on the thesis due date. To account for any printing mishaps or other potential delays, I printed my thesis on the Thursday before the Monday due date. I placed my order for both goldstamping and the pages at around 10 a.m., and it was ready for pickup by 2:00 p.m. On Monday morning I'll deliver a copy to my advisor, Professor Bourg, and I'll deliver the unbound copy for my second reader to my department's main office.

This marks the official end of my undergraduate thesis, but not yet of the research project—I'm working with my advisor to submit it to an academic journal, so I'll continue refining the manuscript in the coming weeks. The printing was an important milestone nonetheless, and I'm pleased with the final product!

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Creative Writing Program Marks Three Decades of Growth, Diversity

By Luisa A. Igloria

2024: a milestone year which marks the 30 th  anniversary of Old Dominion University’s MFA Creative Writing Program. Its origins can be said to go back to April 1978, when the English Department’s (now Professor Emeritus, retired) Phil Raisor organized the first “Poetry Jam,” in collaboration with Pulitzer prize-winning poet W.D. Snodgrass (then a visiting poet at ODU). Raisor describes this period as “ a heady time .” Not many realize that from 1978 to 1994, ODU was also the home of AWP (the Association of Writers and Writing Programs) until it moved to George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.

The two-day celebration that was “Poetry Jam” has evolved into the annual ODU Literary Festival, a week-long affair at the beginning of October bringing writers of local, national, and international reputation to campus. The ODU Literary Festival is among the longest continuously running literary festivals nationwide. It has featured Rita Dove, Maxine Hong Kingston, Susan Sontag, Edward Albee, John McPhee, Tim O’Brien, Joy Harjo, Dorothy Allison, Billy Collins, Naomi Shihab Nye, Sabina Murray, Jane Hirshfield, Brian Turner, S.A. Cosby, Nicole Sealey, Franny Choi, Ross Gay, Adrian Matejka, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Ilya Kaminsky, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, Jose Olivarez, and Ocean Vuong, among a roster of other luminaries. MFA alumni who have gone on to publish books have also regularly been invited to read.

From an initial cohort of 12 students and three creative writing professors, ODU’s MFA Creative Writing Program has grown to anywhere between 25 to 33 talented students per year. Currently they work with a five-member core faculty (Kent Wascom, John McManus, and Jane Alberdeston in fiction; and Luisa A. Igloria and Marianne L. Chan in poetry). Award-winning writers who made up part of original teaching faculty along with Raisor (but are now also either retired or relocated) are legends in their own right—Toi Derricotte, Tony Ardizzone, Janet Peery, Scott Cairns, Sheri Reynolds, Tim Seibles, and Michael Pearson. Other faculty that ODU’s MFA Creative Writing Program was privileged to briefly have in its ranks include Molly McCully Brown and Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley.

"What we’ve also found to be consistently true is how collegial this program is — with a lively and supportive cohort, and friendships that last beyond time spent here." — Luisa A. Igloria, Louis I. Jaffe Endowed Professor & University Professor of English and Creative Writing at Old Dominion University

Our student body is diverse — from all over the country as well as from closer by. Over the last ten years, we’ve also seen an increase in the number of international students who are drawn to what our program has to offer: an exciting three-year curriculum of workshops, literature, literary publishing, and critical studies; as well as opportunities to teach in the classroom, tutor in the University’s Writing Center, coordinate the student reading series and the Writers in Community outreach program, and produce the student-led literary journal  Barely South Review . The third year gives our students more time to immerse themselves in the completion of a book-ready creative thesis. And our students’ successes have been nothing but amazing. They’ve published with some of the best (many while still in the program), won important prizes, moved into tenured academic positions, and been published in global languages. What we’ve also found to be consistently true is how collegial this program is — with a lively and supportive cohort, and friendships that last beyond time spent here.

Our themed studio workshops are now offered as hybrid/cross genre experiences. My colleagues teach workshops in horror, speculative and experimental fiction, poetry of place, poetry and the archive — these give our students so many more options for honing their skills. And we continue to explore ways to collaborate with other programs and units of the university. One of my cornerstone projects during my term as 20 th  Poet Laureate of the Commonwealth was the creation of a Virginia Poets Database, which is not only supported by the University through the Perry Library’s Digital Commons, but also by the MFA Program in the form of an assistantship for one of our students. With the awareness of ODU’s new integration with Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) and its impact on other programs, I was inspired to design and pilot a new 700-level seminar on “Writing the Body Fantastic: Exploring Metaphors of Human Corporeality.” In the fall of 2024, I look forward to a themed graduate workshop on “Writing (in) the Anthropocene,” where my students and I will explore the subject of climate precarity and how we can respond in our own work.

Even as the University and wider community go through shifts and change through time, the MFA program has grown with resilience and grace. Once, during the six years (2009-15) that I directed the MFA Program, a State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) university-wide review amended the guidelines for what kind of graduate student would be allowed to teach classes (only those who had  already  earned 18 or more graduate credits). Thus, two of our first-year MFA students at that time had to be given another assignment for their Teaching Assistantships. I thought of  AWP’s hallmarks of an effective MFA program , which lists the provision of editorial and publishing experience to its students through an affiliated magazine or press — and immediately sought department and upper administration support for creating a literary journal. This is what led to the creation of our biannual  Barely South Review  in 2009.

In 2010,  HuffPost  and  Poets & Writers  listed us among “ The Top 25 Underrated Creative Writing MFA Programs ” (better underrated than overrated, right?) — and while our MFA Creative Writing Program might be smaller than others, we do grow good writers here. When I joined the faculty in 1998, I was excited by the high caliber of both faculty and students. Twenty-five years later, I remain just as if not more excited, and look forward to all the that awaits us in our continued growth.

This essay was originally published in the Spring 2024 edition of Barely South Review , ODU’s student-led literary journal. The University’s growing MFA in Creative Writing program connects students with a seven-member creative writing faculty in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.

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