Creative Writing Program

Creative Writing Minor

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

Micaela Go

Stegner Fellowship

An opportunity for promising writers to develop their craft in the company of peers and under the guidance of Stanford faculty.

Stanford University

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

Professor Chang-rae Lee authors his most personal work yet

Congratulations are in order for Professor Chang-rae Lee's newest novel, A Tender Age. The prizewinning novelist tells the story of a Korean American immigrant at summer camp in 1976.

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Poet Hanif Abdurraqib shares how to build a creative life

On the stage with Professor Aracelis Girmay, Denning Visiting Artist, Hanif Abdurraqib spoke to packed and lively crowds during conversations with members of the Stanford community and beyond.

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Professor Aracelis Girmay wins PEN America poetry prize

Congratulations to Professor Aracelis Girmay for being awarded the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry Collection for her book Green of All Heads.

Open seats: Reading and Writing Poetry with D. M. Spratley

Loiter over words and explore and play and be very serious about your poetry without holding it too tightly.

Open seats: Native American Creative Writing with Sterling HolyWhiteMountain

A creative writing workshop that introduces the basic, aesthetic elements of fiction and explores what major Native American writers have done with the form.