Creative Writing
Our Creative Writing program is a series of workshops that gives students the chance to explore a wide range of literary genres including fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. This program will enable you to experience the historical, traditional, creative, and digital aspects of literature in English, as well as the relationship between your study of literature and the process that produces it. You will learn transferable skills including the abilities to think deeply and creatively, read complex texts for comprehension, and develop writing and speaking skills at the advanced level. These workshops are designed to expose students to important works of the past and to innovative new works breaking the boundaries of genre and form. We imagine creative writing to be a living dialogue attuned to voices of all ages from all over the world.
The creative writing workshops will be focused on developing creative skills by:
- • reading the works of canonical and non-canonical writers
- • understanding various writing techniques and styles
- • practicing creative expression through interactive reading and writing assignments
- • developing and revising work for inclusive, community-based feedback
- • critiquing peer work in live and asynchronous discussion-based sessions