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Assistant Professor of Creative Writing—Fiction

Department of English Studies at Western Carolina University

The Department of English Studies at WCU seeks candidates for a 9-month tenure-track Assistant Professor of Creative Writing—Fiction.

Department Chair/Associate or Full Professor of English

English Department, Sam Houston State University

Duties Performed in the Usual Course of the Job As Sam Houston State University is experiencing a period of explosive growth, the English Department…

Lecturer, Literature and Creative Writing Program, English Department

Baylor University Departmet of English

The Literature and Creative Writing program in the Department of English at Baylor University seeks two full-time lecturers to teach creative writing…

Assistant Professor of English–Creative Writing (Poetry)

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Full-time, 9-month, tenure-track assistant professorship in Creative Writing (Poetry), Department of English, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Creative Writing

University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

The English Department at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire seeks to hire a tenure-track Assistant Professor with expertise in screenwriting.

Assistant Professor of English - Specialization in Poetry

University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Review of apps will begin October 16, 2024. To apply, visit https://employment.unl.edu, requisition F_240128.

Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellowship (Multiple Positions Starting January 1, 2025)

Georgia Instutute of Technology

Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellowship (Multiple Positions Starting January 1, 2025) The Writing and Communication Program (WCP) in the School of…

Postdoctoral Faculty Fellow, Liberal Studies  - WRITING

New York University Arts and Science, Liberal Studies

NYU Liberal Studies invites applications for two Postdoctoral Faculty Fellow in Writing to begin September 1, 2025.

Assistant Professor in Indigenous Literatures (Tenure-track) Department of English

New York University Arts and Science

NYU Department of English invites applications for a full-time tenure stream position in the field of Indigenous Literatures.

Assistant Professor of Literature and Creative Writing (Creative Nonfiction)

Hamilton College, Literature and Creative Writing

The Literature and Creative Writing Department of Hamilton College invites applications for a practicing creative nonfiction writer with expertise in…

Viebranz Visiting Professor of Creative Writing

St. Lawrence University

St. Lawrence University invites applications for a Viebranz Visiting Professor of Creative Writing for 2025-2026.

Assistant Professor of the Practice and Director of Writing Center

Boston College English

The Boston College English Department seeks to hire an Assistant Professor of the Practice who will also serve as the Director of the Writing Center.…

Assistant Professor of Fiction and Poetry Writing New

Coastal Carolina University, Department of English

Assistant Professor of Fiction and Poetry Writing The Department of English at Coastal Carolina University invites applications for a position as an…

Associate or Full Professor, Fiction

Stony Brook University

Associate or Full Professor, Fiction Location: Stony Brook, NY Open Date: Sep 16, 2024 Deadline: Jan 15, 2025 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time Description…

Visiting Assistant Professor in Creative Writing (Fiction)

Penn State UP English Department

The Department of English at The Pennsylvania State University at University Park, Pennsylvania, invites applications for a Visiting Assistant…

Assistant Professor in Creative Writing/Nonfiction (tenure-track)

Elon University - English Department

Elon University invites applications for a tenure-track writer of creative nonfiction, at the assistant professor level, beginning mid-August 2025.…

Assistant Professor

Kansas City Art Institute

The Liberal Arts Department of the Kansas City Art Institute (KCAI), a national leader in visual arts education, invites applications for a full-time…

Assistant Professor in English and Creative Writing

University of Rhode Island

Assistant Professor in English and Creative Writing Position location: Kingston Campus The position is full-time academic year, tenure-track,…

Assistant Professor in Poetry and Poetics

University of Southern California, Department of English

Assistant Professor in Poetry and Poetics, with an emphasis in Twentieth Century and Contemporary Poetry.

Asst/Assoc/Full Professor in Poetry

Cornell University Department of Literatures in English

The Creative Writing Program in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University is conducting a search for a poet.

Workshops are open by application to Harvard College undergraduates, graduate students, staff, and students from other institutions eligible for cross registration. Submission guidelines for workshops can be found under individual course listings; please do not query instructors.  Review all departmental rules and application instructions before applying.  

Fall 2024 Application Deadline: 11:59 pm ET on Sunday, April 7, 2024. Spring 2025 Application Deadline: 11:59pm ET on Sunday, November 10, 2024.

Please visit our course listings for all the Spring 2025 workshops.

Our online submission manager (link below) will open for Spring 2025 applications on TBD, 2024.

Students who have questions about the creative writing workshop application process should contact Case Q. Kerns at [email protected] .

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Instructor: Musa Syeed Wednesday, 12:45-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students The feature-length script is an opportunity to tell a story on a larger scale, and, therefore, requires additional preparation. In this class, we will move...

English CAMR. Advanced Playwriting: Workshop

Instructor: Sam Marks Monday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students. This workshop is a continued exploration of writing for the stage, with an eye towards presentation. The semester will culminate in a staged reading of each...

English CBBR. Intermediate Poetry: Workshop

Instructor: Josh Bell Monday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Initially, students can expect to read, discuss, and imitate the strategies of a wide range of poets writing in English; to investigate and reproduce prescribed...

English CBW. Fiction Workshop: Bending Worlds

Instructor: Laura van den Berg Monday, 12:00-2:45 pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Julio Cortázar: “The fantastic breaks the crust of appearance … something grabs us by the shoulders to throw us outside ourselves.” This workshop will...

English CCFS. Fiction Workshop

Instructor: Teju Cole Section 1: Wednesday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Section 2: Thursday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students This reading and writing intensive workshop for students who want to learn to write literary...

English CDB. Poetry Workshop

Instructor: Reginald Dwayne Betts Section 1 Monday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Section 2 Monday, 6:00-8:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students This workshop will be an exploration into the ways that poets in the past have reckoned in...

English CHCR. Advanced Poetry: Workshop

Instructor: Josh Bell Tuesday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students By guided reading, classroom discussion, one on one conference, and formal and structural experimentation, members of the Advanced Poetry Workshop will look to...

English CLAR. Getting the Words Right: The Art of Revision

Instructor: Laura van den Berg Wednesday, 9:00-11:45am | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students A promising draft is of little use to us as writers if we have no idea what to do next, of how to begin again. This course aims to illuminate how...

English CLPG. Art of Sportswriting

Instructor: Louisa Thomas Monday, 9:00-11:45am | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students In newsrooms, the sports section is sometimes referred to as the “toy department” -- frivolous and unserious, unlike the stuff of politics, business, and war...

English CLR. Introduction to Screenwriting: Workshop

Instructor: Musa Syeed Tuesday, 12:45-2:45pm | Location: TBA Enrollment: Limited to 12 students The short film, with its relatively lower costs of production and expanded distribution opportunities, has become one of the most disruptive, innovative modes...

English CMCO. Creative Nonfiction Workshop: Comedy and Creative Nonfiction

Instructor: Melissa Cundieff Thursday, 12:00-2:45 pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students In this workshop-based class, students will be asked to use humor as the bedrock of their creative nonfiction writing. Humor connects us as human...

English CMFG. Past Selves and Future Ghosts

Instructor: Melissa Cundieff Thursday, 3:00-5:45 pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students As memoirist and author Melissa Febos puts it: “The narrator is never you, and the sooner we can start thinking of ourselves on the page that way, the...

English CNFJ. Narrative Journalism

Instructor: Darcy Frey Course Site Spring 2025: Thursday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students. In this hands-on writing workshop, we will study the art of narrative journalism in many different forms: Profile writing...

English CNFR. Creative Nonfiction: Workshop

Instructor: Darcy Frey Course Site Spring 2025: Wednesday, 3:00-5:45 pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Whether it takes the form of literary journalism, essay, memoir, or environmental writing, creative nonfiction is a powerful genre...

English CPY. Fiction Writing: Workshop

Instructor: Paul Yoon Monday, 12:00-2:45 pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students. An introductory workshop where we will learn to read as writers and study all aspects of the craft of fiction writing, including such topics as character...

English CRLC. Fiction: Craft and Workshop

Instructor: Raven Leilani Section 1: Monday, 9:00-11:45am | Location: TBD Section 2: Monday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students In this creative writing workshop, we will read/annotate workshop pieces and assigned readings. We...

English CWNM. Nonfiction Writing for Magazines

Instructor: Maggie Doherty Monday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students This course will focus on the genres of nonfiction writing commonly published in magazines: the feature, the profile, the personal essay, and longform arts...

Spring 2024

Instructor: Melissa Cundieff Wednesday, 12:00-2:45 pm | Location: Barker 316 Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Course Site As memoirist and author Melissa Febos puts it: “The narrator is never you, and the sooner we can start thinking of ourselves on the...

English CACW. Advanced Fiction Workshop

Instructor: Paul Yoon TBD | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Advanced fiction workshop for students who have already taken a workshop at Harvard or elsewhere. The goal of the class is to continue your journey as a writer. You will be...

Instructor: Paul Yoon Section 1: Monday, 12:00-2:45 pm | Location: TBD Section 2: Monday, 3:00-5:45 pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students. Course Site- Section 1 Course Site- Section 2 An introductory workshop where we will learn to read...

Write an Honors Creative Thesis

Students may apply to write a senior thesis or senior project in creative writing, although only English concentrators can be considered. Students submit applications in early March of their junior year, including first-term juniors who are out of phase. The creative writing faculty considers the proposal, along with the student's overall performance in creative writing and other English courses, and notifies students about its decision in early mid-late March. Those applications are due, this coming year, on TBA . 

Students applying for a creative writing thesis or project must have completed at least one course in creative writing at Harvard before they apply. No student is guaranteed acceptance. It is strongly suggested that students acquaint themselves with the requirements and guidelines well before the thesis application is due. The creative writing director must approve any exceptions to the requirements, which must be made in writing by Monday, February 7, 2022. Since the creative writing thesis and project are part of the English honors program, acceptance to write a creative thesis is conditional upon the student continuing to maintain a 3.40 concentration GPA. If a student’s concentration GPA drops below 3.40 after the spring of the junior year, the student may not be permitted to continue in the honors program.

Joint concentrators may apply to write creative theses, but we suggest students discuss the feasibility of the project well before applications are due. Not all departments are open to joint creative theses.

Students who have questions about the creative writing thesis should contact the program’s Director, Sam Marks .

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What is a creative writing professor and how to become one

A creative writing professor helps students elevate their Creative Works. They teach the craft of writing through examples from established writers and lead discussions on fiction and personal narratives. These professors connect with students from diverse backgrounds and adapt their teaching methods to different learning environments. They develop course materials using current instructional technology and guide freshman students.

How long does it takes to become a creative writing professor?

It typically takes 6-8 years to become a creative writing professor:

• Years 1-4: Obtaining a master's degree in a relevant field, such as creative writing, English, or journalism.
• Years 5-6: Accumulating the necessary work experience in teaching, publishing, or writing.

Avg. Salary $72,177

Avg. Salary $59,228

Growth Rate 12 %

Growth Rate 0.3 %

American Indian and Alaska Native 0.27 %

Asian 12.18 %

Black or African American 4.93 %

Hispanic or Latino 7.22 %

Unknown 4.56 %

White 70.84 %

female 40.00 %

male 60.00 %

American Indian and Alaska Native 3.00 %

Asian 7.00 %

Black or African American 14.00 %

Hispanic or Latino 19.00 %

White 57.00 %

female 47.00 %

male 53.00 %

Stress level is manageable

Complexity Level is advanced

7 - challenging

Work Life balance is excellent

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The educational requirements for a creative writing professor are typically a master's or doctorate degree. According to the educational distribution data, over 84% of creative writing professors hold a master's or doctorate degree. The most common majors for these professors are Writing, English, and Liberal Arts. Some top schools for pursuing a degree in creative writing include the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Northwestern University, and Harvard University.

Expert insights further support the importance of advanced degrees in the field. According to Jane Doe, Professor of Creative Writing at XYZ University, "A master's or doctorate degree is crucial for anyone aspiring to become a creative writing professor. It not only provides the necessary academic training but also equips you with the skills to teach and mentor students in the craft of writing." Therefore, aspiring creative writing professors should prioritize earning advanced degrees to meet the educational requirements of the profession.

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A creative writing professor's main task is to guide students in improving their writing skills. They do this by facilitating classroom discussions on various forms of writing, such as fiction and personal narratives. They also use established writers' works to demonstrate the craft of writing, and help students take their creative projects to the next level.

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Creative writing (poetry), professor/instructor.

Practice in the original composition of poetry supplemented by the reading and analysis of standard works. Each student is expected to prepare a manuscript each week. There will be a weekly workshop meeting and occasional individual conferences.

Creative Writing (Fiction)

Practice in the original composition of fiction supplemented by the reading and analysis of standard works. Each student is expected to prepare a manuscript at least every other week. There will be a weekly workshop meeting and occasional individual conferences.

Creative Writing (Literary Translation)

Practice in the translation of literary works from another language into English supplemented by the reading and analysis of standard works. Each student is expected to prepare a manuscript each week. There will be a weekly workshop meeting and occasional individual conferences.

Introductory Playwriting

This is a workshop in the fundamentals of writing plays. Through writing prompts, exercises, study and reflection, students will be guided in the creation of original dramatic material. Attention will be given to character, structure, dramatic action, monologue, dialogue, language

Creative Nonfiction

This is a workshop in factual writing and what has become known as literary non-fiction, emphasizing writing assignments and including several reading assignments. Students will examine masterpieces about social inequality and to what extent it is possible for authors to know the struggles of their subjects, and to create empathy for them. One three-hour seminar.

Advanced Creative Writing (Poetry)

Advanced practice in the original composition of poetry for discussion in regularly scheduled workshop meetings. Prerequisites: Two 200-level CWR courses.

Advanced Creative Writing (Fiction)

Advanced practice in the original composition of fiction for discussion in regularly scheduled workshop meetings.

Advanced practice in the original composition of fiction for discussion in regularly scheduled workshop meetings. Prerequisites: Two 200-level CWR courses.

Advanced Creative Writing (Literary Translation)

Advanced practice in the translation of literary works from another language into English supplemented by the reading and analysis of standard works. Prerequisites: 205 or 206 and by application.

Advanced practice in the translation of literary works from another language into English supplemented by the reading and analysis of standard works. Prerequisites: 205 or 206 or by Program permission.

Playwriting II: Intermediate Playwriting

A continuation of work begun in Introductory Playwriting, in this class, students will complete either one full-length play or two long one-acts (40-60 pages) to the end of gaining a firmer understanding of characterization, dialogue, structure, and the playwriting process. In addition to questions of craft, an emphasis will be placed on the formation of healthy creative habits and the sharpening of critical and analytical skills through reading and responding to work of both fellow students and contemporary playwrights of note.

Special Topics in Creative Writing

Students gain special access to the critical understanding of literature through their involvement in the creative process. Topics include autobiography, prosody, non-fiction, revision and point of view. Students are expected to prepare a manuscript at least every other week. Specific topics and prerequisites will vary. By application.

Advanced Creative Writing Tutorial

Tutorials in the original composition of fiction, poetry, or translations, open to those who have demonstrated unusual commitment and talent through four terms of creative writing or who provide equivalent evidence of their capacity for advanced work. Open also to qualified graduate students. Individual conferences to be arranged.

Special Topics in Screenwriting

This class will familiarize students with the complex use of metaphorical, emotional, and visual threads in long form screenplay writing. Analyzing examples of international, independent, and classical structures, students will be exposed to the rhythms and demands of the process of conceiving and writing a long form narrative film. Prerequisite: Introduction to Screenwriting and by application.

Advanced Seminar in American Studies

Advanced seminars bring students into spaces of collaborative exploration after pursuing their individual paths of study in American studies, Asian American/diasporic studies, and/or Latino studies. To students culminating programs of study toward one or more of the certificates offered by the Effron Center for the Study of America, advanced seminars offer the important opportunity to integrate their cumulative knowledge.

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Creative Writing Faculty

Gabriel bump, assistant professor.

Gabrielle Calvocoressi

Associate professor / walker percy fellow.

Carlina Duan

Assistant professor / walker percy fellow.

Stephanie Elizondo Griest

Professor of creative nonfiction.

Michael Keenan Gutierrez

Teaching associate professor and associate director of the writing program.

Jared Lemus

Kenan visiting wrtier.

Matt Randal O’Wain

Teaching assistant professor / diversity liaison.

Adam O’Fallon Price

Teaching assistant professor.

Bland Simpson 

Kenan distinguished professor.

Julia Ridley Smith

Karen Tucker

Daniel Wallace

J. ross macdonald distinguished professor of english.

Teaching Associate Professor / Director of Creative Writing

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• Stanford is reinstating term limits for Jones Lecturers (former Stegner Fellows) to honor Wallace Stegner’s foundational principles and provide teaching opportunities for new fellows.
• The program will increase its annual courses by 10% starting in the 2025-26 academic year to meet growing student interest.
• New creative writing lectureships (renewable for up to three years) and an associate director position are being established to support additional courses and mentorship. Current Jones Lecturers can apply for these roles.
• The English Department is piloting 10 new lectureships to blend creative writing with literary studies, aligning with students’ desires to combine creative expression and critical thinking.

Amid unprecedented growth and evolving student interests, Stanford University’s Creative Writing Program in the School of Humanities and Sciences is implementing significant changes to restore its original vision and meet the increasing demand for creative writing courses. 

The program, renowned for cultivating some of the country’s best writers, is recommitting to its mission by restructuring key fellowships and expanding course offerings.

Central to these changes is a return to the foundational principles set by Wallace Stegner, an English faculty member and 1972 Pulitzer Prize winner, when he established the Creative Writing Program in 1946. 

Moving forward, Jones lecturers – all former Stegner Fellows – will be term-limited and rotate out regularly. This shift ensures that new Stegner Fellows can become Jones lecturers, maintaining a fresh flow of perspectives within the program. 

This change continues a reform process initiated in 2019, which limited newly hired Jones lecturers to four-year terms. While many of the current Jones lecturers are expected to continue teaching for the next four to five years, they will eventually cycle out. This will make room for new lecturers, who will be eligible for terms of up to five years each. Importantly, Stanford anticipates maintaining the same number of creative writing lecturers to keep the program’s teaching capacity robust. 

“The Jones Lectureship offers Stegner Fellows the opportunity to teach our undergrads,” said A. Van Jordan, a former faculty co-director of creative writing and professor of English and African and African American Studies. 

“When the Jones Lectureship operates as it was designed to, ideally, with the imprimatur of Stanford on their CVs and new book publications, they will go on – as many have over the years – and begin their careers as faculty at other institutions,” said Jordan, who is also a Humanities and Sciences Professor. 

These changes will not only help ensure the program honors Stegner’s original vision, but also address the evolving landscape of writing in the digital age. In an era where AI can generate content instantly, the importance of human creativity and inspiration is more significant than ever, said Debra Satz, the Vernon R. and Lysbeth Warren Anderson Dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences. 

"Drawing inspiration is a competence computers don’t have; we do," Satz said. "We want every Stanford student to have the opportunity to make their own choices, guided by some of the most gifted writers of our generation." 

Wallace Stegner, a Stanford English professor and Pulitzer Prize winner who established the Creative Writing Program, is the namesake of the Stegner Fellowship program. | Chuck Painter

Honoring a legacy of excellence 

Since its founding, Stanford’s Creative Writing Program has become a cornerstone of literary excellence, producing Stegner Fellows who have achieved national and international acclaim. "There have been times when I thought I was seeing the American literature of the future taking shape in my classroom," Stegner once wrote. 

Inspired by Stanford students who were World War II veterans with compelling stories to tell, Stegner envisioned a program to nurture emerging writers. He collaborated with Dr. E. H. Jones, a physician and the brother of the English Department chair, who provided initial funding and later established a permanent endowment. This support led to the creation of the prestigious Stegner Fellowship – a two-year residential fellowship for promising early-career writers in poetry and fiction – and the Jones Lectureships, which provides Stegner Fellows with teaching opportunities while they complete their manuscripts. 

Nearly 80 years later, the Stegner Fellowship remains highly competitive, attracting nearly 1,400 applications last year for just 10 slots. In addition, creative writing is the most popular minor with Stanford undergraduates (music is second). The COVID-19 pandemic intensified this trend, as students sought connection and expression during isolating times. 

“We were all living the same Groundhog Day over and over, and in those terrible pandemic years, reading and writing didn’t feel like a luxury or a frill but a vital form of connection,” said Patrick Phillips, professor of English and former director of the Creative Writing Program. 

Looking ahead 

To accommodate this surge in interest, the program will increase its course offerings by 10%, from approximately 100 to 110 courses annually, starting in the 2025-26 academic year.

To staff the additional courses and provide enhanced support, the Creative Writing Program is establishing new positions: 

Creative writing lecturers: Beginning in 2025-26, two new lectureships (renewable for a maximum duration of three years) will be available to outgoing Jones lecturers. These positions will allow them to continue teaching and mentoring. A reduced teaching load will allow them to focus on administrative responsibilities like professional development, curriculum assistance, and collaborating with colleagues on innovative course design and teaching strategies.

Associate director of creative writing: The associate director of creative writing, who will also be a senior lecturer, will also commence in 2025-26. They will teach courses, help with administrative responsibilities, and provide leadership support to faculty and lecturers. A national search will be conducted for this role, with current Jones lecturers eligible to apply. 

These new positions aim to maintain the quality and variety of course offerings, ensuring that popular classes like the Graphic Novel Project and Novel Writing Intensive continue to thrive. 

“It is common for popular classes to change hands,” said Nicholas Jenkins, faculty director of the Creative Writing Program. “In setting the curriculum, the Program always pays close attention to student views. Nothing that draws enthusiastic undergraduates is likely to go away. The influx of new Jones lecturers into the Program will also produce innovative course offerings that will become must-haves.” 

The future of creative writing and the English major 

While arts practice and theory are typically separated at U.S. universities, Stanford houses them together. “In H&S, the Creative Writing Program is housed within the Department of English,” explained Gabriella Safran, senior associate dean for the humanities and arts, the Eva Chernov Lokey Professor of Jewish Studies, and professor of Slavic languages and literatures. “Students benefit from the synergy of practice and theory, making and analysis, rather than needing to choose between one and the other.” 

Recognizing students’ evolving interest in merging creative expression with critical thinking, the Department of English is also piloting ten new lectureships, renewable for a maximum duration of three years. Starting in 2025-26, five lecturers will begin teaching, with the other five joining the following year. These positions are anticipated to be filled by current Jones lecturers. 

Gavin Jones, chair of the Department of English, emphasized the importance of bridging literary theory and history with the practice of creative writing itself. “Students increasingly want to write creatively as well as think critically about literary texts,” he said. “This is a good time for new pedagogical practices that reflect this change by merging creative expression with literary analysis.” 

The English Department lecturers will teach some creative writing courses alongside new gateway courses that are part literature seminar and part creative writing workshop, and they may occasionally co-teach with English faculty. In the process, they will help the department rethink English pedagogy for new generations of students. 

“When our writing workshops are good, they’re not just undergraduate classes, but extraordinary gatherings in which people can talk and write about what matters most in their lives,” Phillips said. “I feel lucky every time I walk into a room of undergraduate writers.”

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• African-American Literature
• American Literature
• Asian American Literature
• British Literature
• Contemporary Literature and Culture
• Digital Humanities
• Drama and Performance Studies
• Early Modern Literature
• Eighteenth-Century Literature
• Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
• Film and Media Studies
• Indigenous Literature
• Literary Theory
• Literature and Ethnicity
• Medieval Literature
• Native American and Indigenous Studies
• Poetry, Poetics, and Aesthetics
• Postcolonialism
• Psychoanalysis
• Romanticism
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"Creative writing offers the students an opportunity to explore life’s many landscapes, both outward and inward.”

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The Program in Creative Writing offers Princeton undergraduates the opportunity to craft original work under the guidance of some of today’s most respected practicing writers including Michael Dickman , Katie Farris , Aleksandar Hemon , A.M. Homes , Ilya Kaminsky ,  Yiyun Li , Paul Muldoon , and Patricia Smith .

Small workshop courses , averaging eight to ten students, provide intensive feedback and instruction for both beginners and advanced writers, and each year 25 to 30 seniors work individually with a member of the faculty on independent creative work: a novel, a screenplay, or a collection of short stories, poems or translations. Writers of national and international distinction visit campus throughout the year to participate in the Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series and to discuss their work. The Lewis Center presents the biennial Princeton Poetry Festival drawing poets from around the world. The C.K. Williams Reading Series puts Princeton seniors at the podium alongside a lineup of established guest writers curated by seniors in the program. The Leonard Milberg collections and Princeton’s unparalleled library and archives also provide world-class opportunities for the study of contemporary literature.

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Upcoming Creative Writing Events

Tue Oct 1, 2024 · 6:00 pm

Althea ward clark w’21 reading by elizabeth mccracken and brenda shaughnessy.

Tue Oct 22, 2024 · 6:00 pm

C.k. williams reading with sam sax, tue oct 29, 2024 · 6:00 pm, althea ward clark w’21 reading by don mee choi and samanta schweblin, tue nov 12, 2024 · 6:00 pm, c.k. williams reading with torrey peters.

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UBCO Creative Writing professor makes Giller Prize longlist

Curiosities makes the cut as one of the 12 best fiction books in canada.

September 24, 2024

Anne Fleming (right) holds her Giller nominated book Curiosities while chatting with local author Shelley Wood at a recent UBCO Creative Writing Gala.

UBC Okanagan’s Professor of Creative Writing Anne Fleming is one of a dozen Canadian writers who have made the longlist for the 2024 Giller Prize.

Fleming’s book Curiosities is a fictional account of a historian who finds an obscure memoir and then digs deep into the stories hidden between the pages of the people portrayed in the words penned centuries earlier.

“I was drawn to write about 17th-century England because its beliefs and practices and people are so deliciously weird. They were wrong about so many things, sometimes charmingly, sometimes disastrously,” says Fleming. “But people are people in any age. They love and fear, escape and return, suffer and endure, accuse and forgive.”

Fleming, who began teaching creative writing at UBCO in the fall of 2005, has published six books of fiction and poetry. Her writing has won significant recognition and she has previously been shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award, the Journey Prize, the Danuta Gleed Award, the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and Italy’s Premio Strega children’s prize.

The 12 titles chosen for the longlist were selected from more than 100 books that were submitted by publishers across Canada.

The Giller Prize, established in 1994, seeks out the best novel, graphic novel or short story collection published in English written by a Canadian author. The top prize is $100,000, while each runner up will be awarded $10,000. Previous winners include authors such as Margaret Atwood, Mordecai Richler, Michael Ondaatje, Esi Edugyan, Suzette Mayr and Lynn Coady.

Dr. Bryce Traister, Dean of the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, says Fleming’s nomination is well deserved and her colleagues are extremely proud of her.

“With the longlist nod from the Giller Prize committee, more of the world is aware of what we in the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies have long had the privilege of knowing. Anne Fleming is a rare talent, her work an inviting mix of clear observation, relentless curiosity and deft rendering,” he adds. “Neither her students nor her colleagues here at UBC’s Okanagan campus are a bit surprised with the news—and we are all delighted for her.”

Dr. Traister also notes this is the second year in a row a UBCO creative writing instructor has been longlisted for the Giller Prize. Associate Professor Kevin Chong’s novel The Double Life of Benson Yu was longlisted and also made the final five finalists for the Giller in 2023. Chong is also one of five judges for this year’s award and a shortlist will be announced on October 9.

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