Creative Writing Program
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Cultivating the power of individual expression within a vibrant community of writers
Announcement from the stanford creative writing program.
Creative Writing Minor
Discover your writing prowess and push the imaginative bounds of prose, poetry, and screenwriting with our undergraduate minor.
Stegner Fellowship
An opportunity for promising writers to develop their craft in the company of peers and under the guidance of Stanford faculty.
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Our Community
Meet the faces of Creative Writing--the faculty, lecturers, staff, and visiting writers who guide and support our students and fellows.
It’s here that I fell deeper and deeper in love with writing, and I can say without a shadow of doubt that I met mentors, peers, and friends for life. The generosity with which the Creative Writing Program has shaped me will sustain—it’s truly been life-changing.
In the Spotlight
New Book Release from Nicholas Jenkins
Nicholas Jenkins, Associate Professor of English and Co-Director of the Creative Writing Program, celebrates the release of his new book The Island: War and Belonging in Auden's England. A groundbreaking reassessment of W. H. Auden’s early life and poetry, shedding new light on his artistic development as well as on his shifting beliefs about political belonging in interwar England.
New Book Releases from Madeleine Cravens & Zach Williams
We would like to extend our congratulations to Madeleine Cravens, Stegner fellow, and Zach Williams, Jones Lecturer, on their first book releases. Madeleine Cravens has debuted an astonishing collection of poems while Zach Williams debuted a striking story collection.
Description dances off the page at final Stegner Fellow reading
On Wednesday night, Stegner Fellow in Fiction Nevarez Encinias delivered an evening of movement and description in literary form. A dancer by training, Encinias’s background came through in his writing through his elaborate physical descriptions and seemingly choreographed prose.
Recent News
- Announcements
Paid/work study opportunity in Creative Writing
- In the News
For writer Molly Antopol, silences create room for fiction
Spots available: English 192V A Documentary Poetics of P(l)(e)ace with L. Lamar Wilson
Upcoming events.
A Crash Course in Molotov Cocktails: Halyna Kruk in Conversation with her Translator Yuliya Ichuk
A Crash Course in Molotov Cocktails (2023), shortlisted for 2024 Griffin Poetry Prize) emerged out of a productive collaboration…
- Stegner Fellow Readings
Stegner Fellow Reading with D.M. Spratley and Rucy Cui
Sponsored by the Creative Writing Program, we're pleased to announce a reading with Stegner Fellows in Poetry and Fiction: D.M. Spratley…
- Poet's House
Poet's House: Open Write
Join Jones Lecturer Keith Ekiss at POET'S HOUSE this Autumn, a writing studio for all poets--beginning…
Pleasure Principle
Beautiful Days
The Island: War and Belonging in Auden's England
Winter Stranger
The Fight Journal
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The Stanford Creative Writing Program, founded in 1946 by Wallace Stegner, has become one of the nation’s most distinguished creative writing institutions. After almost …
Creative Writing. Stanford’s Creative Writing Program--one of the best-known in the country--cultivates the power of individual expression within a vibrant community of writers.
CREATIVE WRITING. What’s your story? Whether you’re just beginning to write or putting the finishing touches on your first novel, our on-campus and online writing courses offer expert instruction, individual attention, and supportive …
For application updates, join our Stegner Fellowship email list. Unique among writing programs, Stanford University offers 10 two-year fellowships each year, 5 in fiction and 5 in poetry. All the fellows in each genre convene weekly in a 3 …
Amid unprecedented growth and evolving student interests, Stanford University’s Creative Writing Program in the School of Humanities and Sciences is implementing …
Stanford’s Creative Writing Program--one of the best-known in the country--cultivates the power of individual expression within a vibrant community of writers. The Minor in Creative Writing offers a structured environment in …
Offers undergraduate courses in fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction writing, and the Wallace Stegner Fellowship.
Five award-winning writers have been appointed to faculty positions in the Creative Writing Program. Three have already settled in at Stanford, and two more are set to arrive later this year.
Stanford Continuing Studies' online creative writing courses make it easy to take courses taught by instructors from Stanford’s writing community. Thanks to the flexibility of the online …