Creative Writing

Creative Writing at HWS

Creative Writing Concentration and Curriculum

The English Department has a Creative Writing concentration within in the major on which students can focus their study. In addition to workshops and courses in the three primary genres—Fiction, Poetry, and Nonfiction—students will be able to take workshops in other departments (e.g. Theater, Education, and Writing & Rhetoric) that count toward the track. HWS has a rich, diverse, and innovative creative writing curriculum.

Creative Writing Courses

Fiction Workshop | Poetry Workshop | Creative Nonfiction Workshop | Trias Workshop | Creative Writing (Intro Workshop) | Intermediate Craft of Fiction Workshop | Hybrid Forms Workshop | Lyric Essay Workshop | Intermediate Poetry Workshop | Advanced Poetry Workshop | The Craft of Fiction Workshop | Fiction Workshop II: Theory of Fiction | Playwriting Workshop | Children’s Literature | Creating Children’s Literature | Adolescent Literature Workshop | Literary Journalism Workshop | Small Press Book Publishing | The Video Essay | Travel Writing Workshop | Trias Tutorial