artscreativewriting

The Arts

Certificate of Artistry in
Creative Writing

The Creative Writing program is designed to establish a supportive community of writers and to foster the artistic and intellectual growth of each writer in that community. Creative writing is a highly academic arts discipline, requiring strong critical and imaginative skills as well as a mastery of writing techniques. Thus, the curriculum emphasizes both reading and writing, with expectations becoming progressively more challenging within each level of study and from one level to the next.

In most years, we will study and write poetry in the first and fourth quarters, and short fiction and non-fiction in the second and third quarters; we will work in other genres (e.g., dramatic writing, screenwriting) when possible and appropriate. Novels and other book-length works will be studied throughout the year, usually about three per quarter. By the end of each year, students will have developed their imaginative, technical and critical abilities through studying and writing poems and short fiction; developed their critical skills and aesthetic appreciation through studying a wide range of novels; learned both to provide and receive constructive feedback on creative work in writing workshops; broadened their critical skills through film studies; revised work for quarterly portfolios; and given a public reading of their work. Upper level students will also edit, design and produce a professional-quality literary magazine composed of work submitted by creative writing students.

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