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The Creative Writing Program’s newest fiction writer tells wide-ranging stories about individual lives shaped by the forces of history.
Spots are available! First come, first serve. English 192V course enrollment to close on TUES, OCT 1.
Calling all Stanford undergraduate students! Submit a Levinthal Tutorial application for a chance to work one-on-one with Stegner Fellows in poetry, fiction, or creative nonfiction.
By returning to its foundational principles and adapting to contemporary needs, Stanford’s Creative Writing Program reaffirms its dedication to nurturing the next generation of writers.
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 80 years, the
program continues to evolve while also respecting its original vision of recruiting and supporting
talented writers, offering exceptional creative writing instruction and mentorship, and inspiring
undergraduates to develop their own unique creative written expression.
For Aracelis Girmay, a poet who joined the Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences as a professor in the English Department and member of the Creative Writing Program in September 2023, poetry offers one way to work through these questions. Girmay maintains that poetry doesn’t just describe human experience but rather crystallizes it.
Stegner Fellow and Fresno Poet Laureate Joseph Rios has been awarded an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship. These $50,000 awards are given to honor poets of literary merit appointed to serve in civic positions and to support them in creating new work, as well as to enable them to undertake meaningful, impactful, and innovative projects that enrich the lives of their neighbors, including youth, through responsive and interactive poetry activities.
The Creative Writing Program is pleased to welcome the incoming 2024-2026 Stegner Fellow cohort in poetry and fiction.
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.