The Creative Writing Major
THE CREATIVE WRITING MAJOR, an undergraduate concentration within the English Department at Northwestern University, teaches the writing of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as courses that cross genres. By asking students to examine poems and prose works with a writer's eye, and by encouraging students to apprentice themselves, as energetically as possible, to the best literary models, the Creative Writing Faculty hope to help promising artists in their craft, as well as to educate the discerning readers of the future. Some features of this unique and rigorous undergraduate program include the intensive writing course-sequence, the senior honors program, the cross-genre minor, and the visiting writers festival in the spring.
The Creative Writing Program is distinguished by "the amount of sheer attention we give to students, in the courses, in their work on honors theses, and during office hours." -Professor Reginald Gibbons
"We're not educating people for professional tracks; we're educating them for their lives." -Professor Mary Kinzie
Quotes from "An Amazing Adventure: The English Major in Writing Turns Thirty" by Lisa Stein which appeared in Cross Currents Magazine, Spring/Sumer 2010 Volume 11, Number 1.
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The English Major in Writing Celebrates 30 Years on campus
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Jo Ann Beard, Frank Bidart, and George Saunders were Writers in Residence for the English Major in Writing’s 3rd Annual Spring Writers’ Festival
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Creative Writing students gather at the 3rd Annual Spring Writer’s Festival
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English Department faculty attend one of the talks organized as part of the annual One Book, One Northwestern program
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Writing students Cathy Gao (left) and Alleliah Nuguid (right) meet writer Elizabeth Benedict (center) at the Skidmore Summer Writers’ Institute.
Photo provided by Cathy Gao.
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Northwestern writing students Matt Pacult, Cathy Gao, and Alleliah Nuguid meet poet Frank Bidart at the Skidmore Summer Writers’ Institute.
Photo provided by Cathy Gao.
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Professors Mary Kinzie and John Keene celebrate 30 Years of creative writing at Northwestern
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Professors Wendy Wall (Avalon Foundation Professor, left) and Reginald Gibbons (Frances Hooper Chair in the Arts and Humanities, right) at their inauguration, with Professor Christopher Herbert (Chester D. Tripp Professor of Humanities, center)
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English Department faculty and students gathering before the Department's Fall Collation
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Professor Rebecca Johnson speaks at the English Department's Fall Collation
