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Announcement from the Stanford Creative Writing Program

Creative Writing Program

Creative Writing Minor

Discover your writing prowess and push the imaginative bounds of prose, poetry, and screenwriting with our undergraduate minor.

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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.
Katherine Ho
Peer Advisor, Class of 2023

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
Attention undergrads: new Creative Writing Student Worker position is available!
  • In the News
The Creative Writing Program’s newest fiction writer tells wide-ranging stories about individual lives shaped by the forces of history.
  • Announcements
Spots are available! First come, first serve. English 192V course enrollment to close on TUES, OCT 1.

Upcoming Events

Date
Friday, November 1, 2024. 5:00pm
Location
Pigott Hall
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 260, Stanford, CA 94305
Room 252

A Crash Course in Molotov Cocktails (2023), shortlisted for 2024 Griffin Poetry Prize) emerged out of a productive collaboration…

Date
Wednesday, November 6, 2024. 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Location
Stanford ChEM-H Building
290 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305
Gunn Rotunda, E241

Sponsored by the Creative Writing Program, we're pleased to announce a reading with Stegner Fellows in Poetry and Fiction: D.M. Spratley…

Date
Thursday, November 7, 2024. 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Location
Mariposa House

Join Jones Lecturer Keith Ekiss at POET'S HOUSE this Autumn, a writing studio for all poets--beginning…

Bookshelf

Madeleine Cravens
2024
Zach Williams
2024
Jackson Holbert
2023
Michael Shewmaker
2023
John Evans
2023