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The UC Davis graduate creative writing program is a two-year master of fine arts degree rooted in the study and creation of literature that reaches toward the other arts with the goal of presenting students with a wide range of aesthetic approaches and models for being a writer. Students may specialize in fiction, poetry, nonfiction, as well as multi‐genre, multi‐media, or hybrid forms of literary art. 

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Department of English

Jessica Guerrieri (B.A., English, ’07) wins 2023 Maurice Prize for Fiction

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The Department of English offers programs of study and research leading to the M.F.A. in Creative Writing. Detailed information may be obtained from the graduate advisor, the chairperson of the Department, or the English Department .

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Katie Peterson, Ph.D.

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CRWT20010 Introduction to Creative Writing

Academic year 2023/2024.

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On completion of this course a student may expect to: -Understand some of the skills and techniques required when beginning to write creatively -Work on one long piece of creative work or a selection of shorter pieces -Be able to make connections between the literary texts you study on the programme and the writing you undertake -Become familiar with some of the basic strategies for reading and talking about others’ writing -Be able to reflect critically on your own writing practice

Fiction/Poetry/Script-writing Free writing/pre-writing Character Plot Voice Beginnings/Endings Editing/Redrafting Critiquing

Not applicable to this module.

• Peer review activities • Self-assessment activities

Opportunities for students to peer review a range of different exemplars of other students’ work, either in class.

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In your first year (called Stage 1) you take 12 modules over two semesters. You must study core modules in English and typically two further Arts subjects.

See below for the full list of subjects. Further details per stage will be displayed when browsing through subject. Please note that some subject combinations may not be possible, for timetable or other reasons.

( Please Note: Stage 1 below is only applicable to direct entry students. Students entering the BA programme via DN500 (Omnibus) do not select specific majors until stage 2. DN500 students must apply to the relevant School for entry to a single major).

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The Single Honours English programme is aimed at students who love reading, who value literature and appreciate its fundamental role in shaping society and the individual. This  programme aims to attract students who wish  to specialise in a single subject and who wish to deepen and refine their critical engagement with a wide variety of English-language texts and cultures from the early middle-ages to the present. By concentrating on a single subject, students are educated in the history of literary and cultural production, in current theoretical methods and approaches, and in a wide range of generic, historical and national literatures.  Through innovative teaching, learning, and assessment methods, we promote our core values – independence, creativity, collaboration, critical reflection, cultural engagement, and social and political consciousness.  Lecture, seminar, workshop, and small group work are at the core of our teaching. In these supportive learning environments students and their lecturer/tutor come together in the spirit of mutual inquiry, reflection, discussion, and debate.  Work is assessed by a variety of methods including exam, essay, reflective journals, presentations, worksheets, portfolios, creative writing, individual and group projects. Together these diverse modes of assessment foster the development of a range of important qualities and proficiencies.  We work to equip our students with the knowledge, skills, resources and inspiration useful for a range of professions and beneficial for life, and to produce graduates capable of fulfilling their highest potential as critically-minded and creative citizens.  The challenges, experiences and opportunities provided in this educational environment prepare students for a variety of different workplaces.

You may apply to study abroad for either a semester or a year through the Erasmus programme or on a non-EU exchange. UCD has over 200 Erasmus partners in Europe and an increasing number of non-EU exchange agreements with universities in the USA, Canada, Australia, Japan and elsewhere.

Please click here to visit the Erasmus section of the International Office website.

The year abroad takes place when you have accumulated at least 110 credits and satisfied any subject prerequisites, adding a fourth year to the BA programme and turning it into a BA International.

Graduates in English have found employment as writers and dramatists, and in areas including:  

• Journalism and broadcasting
• Research and administration
• Civil Service
• Advertising and Public Relations

The UCD School of English, Drama and Film also offers a wide range of master's programmes and opportunities for PhD study. One year full time MA programmes include:

• Creative Writing
• Drama & Performance Studies
• Film Studies
• Gender, Sexuality & Culture
• Irish Literature & Culture
• Literature & Culture
• Theatre Practice
• Writing for Stage & Screen

Students must register to the 2 core modules, Dissertation Research Methods and Dissertation, 3 x 10 credit English option modules and 1 x 5 option credit module.

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Creative writing minor.

Students who are not majoring English, and who have an interest in writing poetry or fiction, may enroll in the creative writing minor. The minor gives students the opportunity to complement their area of major study with experience writing and reading poetry or fiction.

General Requirements 

Students minoring in creative writing must complete a minimum of 15 ENGL credit hours. Students must complete a minimum of  6 upper-division (3000-level and above) ENGL credit hoursNone of the required courses may be taken pass/fail. Only courses completed with a grade of C- (1.7) or better may be counted toward the minor. Students must complete a minimum of 9 credit hours with CU Denver faculty. Students should take ENGL 1020 before beginning the minor. 

I. Required Courses: (9 credit hours)

• ENGL 2156 Introduction to Creative Writing  
• ENGL 2450 Introduction to Literature and FIlm
• ENGL 3020 Poetry Workshop OR
• ENGL 3050, Fiction Workshop

II. Area Requirements: (3 credit hours)

     choose 1 corresponding poetry or fiction course:.

• ENGL 4025 Advanced Poetry Workshop OR
• ENGL 4055 Advanced Fiction Workshop OR
• ENGL 3020 or 3050 Writing Workshop (not previously taken)

III. Elective in Genre of Specialization: (3 credit hours)

      poetry: students who have taken engl 3020 choose one: .

• ENGL 4160 Poetics 
• ENGL 4166 History of American Poetry 
• ENGL 4320 History of Poetry in English
• ENGL 4800-4805 Special Topics in Creative Writing (poetry emphasis)

      Fiction: Students who have taken ENGL 3050 choose one: 

• ENGL 4200/4210 Survey of the English Novel to 1900
• ENGL 4230 The American Novel 
• ENGL 4236 The American Short Story 
• ENGL 4800-4805 Special Topics in Creative Writing (fiction emphasis)

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A busy beginning to the spring term in the english and creative writing department.

It's been a busy beginning to the spring term, around campus, and in the English and Creative Writing department, with several exciting events already taking place.

In the first week of the term, we had several well-attended events in celebration of the 150th birthday of Robert Frost. An article in The Dartmouth covers these lively events held in collaboration with other departments. In the second week of the term, Argentinian Cartoonist Liniers was off-site at Still North in conversation with Professor Peter Orner, and focused on Liniers's new book Optimism Is for the Brave . The conversation was joyous, warm, and humorous while taking a direct look at the state of affairs. A friend of Liniers who attended the event referred to optimism as being Liniers's superpower. Read more about the event here .

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2024 creative writing award winners, april 11, 2024.

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The English Department at Duke University is honored to announce the winners of the 2024 Creative Writing Contests and Creative Writing Scholarships. Annually, the department administers creative writing contests to recognize fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry works by English majors and non-major undergraduates. 

The English Department is honored to announce the winners of its 2024 writing contests. The department administers writing contests to recognize fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and critical writing by English majors and non-major undergraduates. 

Congratulations to all of this year's winners! 

Anne Flexner Memorial Award for Fiction Family members and friends of former English student Anne Flexner (1945) established the Anne Flexner Memorial Award for Creative Writing to recognize undergraduates for their work in fiction and poetry. 

Makee Gonzalez Anderson ’24  -  “Here, in the Past Tense” Second Prize: Emma Huang, ’25  -  "ABEL’S PLACE"

Reynolds Price Award for Fiction The Reynolds Price Fiction Award was established in memory of the distinguished novelist, essayist, poet, and public intellectual Reynolds Price, a graduate of Duke and professor in the English Department for over 50 years.  Tomas Esber, ’24  -  “Ridgewood” Second Prize: Matthew Chen, ’26  -  “ABC” & “Chair"

CREATIVE NONFICTION

George P. Lucaci Award for Creative NonFiction This award was created to encourage creative nonfiction writing and honor George P. Lucaci, a former Duke student who has actively supported undergraduate creative writing in the English Department for many years. 

Ruby Wang, ’24  -  “Blood Orison” Second Prize: Rowan Huang, ’24  -  “Arms Outstretched"

Academy of American Poets Prize Founded in 1934 in New York City, the Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization advocating for American poets and poetry.  Its mission is to support American poets at all stages of their careers and foster contemporary poetry appreciation.  Nima Babajani-Feremi, ’24  -  “Dreams to Persepolis” Honorable Mention: Tyler King, ’25  -  "NO QUARTER"

Anne Flexner Memorial Award for Poetry   Family members and friends of former English student Anne Flexner (1945) established the Anne Flexner Memorial Award for Creative Writing to recognize undergraduates for their work in fiction and poetry.   Jocelyn Chin, 24 -   “Endurance” Second Prize:   Arielle Stern, ’25  -  "The Poem as Event"

Terry Welby Tyler, Jr. Award for Poetry This award was established by the family of Terry Welby Tyler, Jr., who would have graduated with the class of 1997 to recognize and honor outstanding undergraduate poetry.  Arim Lim, ’26  -  "Archeopteryx"

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Creative Writing Program Director Roy Scranton wins Guggenheim Fellowship

Published: April 11, 2024

Author: Paul Cunningham

Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing Program Director Dr. Roy Scranton has been named a 2024 Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation , and awarded a grant supporting his forthcoming book Ethical Pessimism: Climate Change and the Limits of Narrative . Now in its 99th year, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation recognizes & awards monetary prizes to the 2024 class of trail-blazing fellows across 52 fields.

“Humanity faces some profound existential challenges,” said Edward Hirsch, award-winning poet and president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. “The Guggenheim Fellowship is a life-changing recognition. It’s a celebrated investment into the lives and careers of distinguished artists, scholars, scientists, writers and other cultural visionaries who are meeting these challenges head-on and generating new possibilities and pathways across the broader culture as they do so.”

In all, 52 scholarly disciplines and artistic fields, 84 academic institutions, 38 US states and the District of Columbia, and four Canadian provinces are represented in the 2024 class, who range in age from 28 to 89. More than 40 Fellows (roughly 1 out of 4) do not hold a full-time affiliation with a college or university. Many Fellows’ projects directly respond to timely issues such as democracy and politics, identity, disability activism, machine learning, incarceration, climate change and community. Since its founding in 1925, the Foundation has awarded over $400 million in fellowships to more than 19,000 fellows.

Dr. Roy Scranton is an essayist, novelist, literary critic, and climate philosopher, best known for his work on war, war literature, and the Anthropocene. He is the author of five books, and has written widely for publications such as the New York Times , Rolling Stone , MIT Technology Review , the Yale Review , and elsewhere. Dr. Scranton grew up in Oregon, dropped out of college, and spent his early twenties wandering the American West. He served four years in the US Army (2002–2006), including fourteen months in Iraq, then completed his bachelor’s degree and earned a master’s degree at the New School for Social Research, before earning a Ph.D. in English at Princeton. His essay “Learning How to Die in the Anthropocene” was selected for the 2015  Best American Science and Nature Writing . He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human Sciences at Rice University, has been awarded a Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities and a Lannan Literary Fellowship for Fiction, and held the inaugural Teaching Lab Fellowship at the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study.