Creative Writing

The English Department offers a Creative Writing Concentration that allows certain students to intensify and focus their English majors by taking a series of practice-based writing courses along with their literature courses. The creative writing concentrator undertakes a twelve-course English major instead of the usual ten courses. Three of these courses must be writing workshops in any genre, selected with the help of the student's concentration advisor. Applicants must have received a grade of B+ or better in the First-Year Writing Seminar or have placed out of it. They must submit an eight-page creative writing manuscript in order to be considered. Applications, due at the end of the fall semester sophomore year, are available in the English office. Interested sophomores are strongly encouraged to register for fall sections of "Introduction to Creative Writing" or "Writing Workshop: Creative Nonfiction" to help generate a stronger writing sample for the application. Some seats in these courses will be held for prospective concentrators.