Cal Alumni Association

How Creative Writing Can Increase Students’ Resilience

Many of my seventh-grade students do not arrive at school ready to learn. Their families often face financial hardship and live in cramped quarters, which makes it difficult to focus on homework. The ...
The Stanford Daily

Students’ creative writing flourishes in Levinthal Tutorials

Each year, a select group of undergraduates are offered the chance to work one-on-one with Stegner Fellows in poetry, fiction or creative nonfiction as part of the Stanford Creative Writing Program’s ...
The Daily Northwestern

NU Creative Writing program invites student wordsmiths

With pens in hand, students in the Northwestern undergraduate Creative Writing program cultivate imagination and pure expression. Founded in 1980, NU’s undergraduate Creative Writing program was one ...
University of Wyoming

Creative Writing

Dream of becoming a writer? Consider adding a creative writing minor to your degree. The creative writing program at the University of Wyoming teaches students how to create original work in ...
Edutopia

5 Ways to Increase the Quantity and Quality of Students’ Writing

Having students move beyond descriptive paragraphs and five-paragraph essays can help improve their ability to write—and their love of doing it.
The Red & Black

UGA students discuss creative writing on campus

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. Transforming imaginative ideas and emotions onto paper gives many writers relief ...
The New York Times

I Teach Creative Writing. This Is What A.I. Is Doing to Students.

Ms. O’Rourke is the executive editor of The Yale Review and a professor of creative writing at Yale University. July 18, 2025 When I first told ChatGPT who I was, it sent a gushing reply: “Oh wow — it ...
University of Delaware

Researching the history of creative writing

Margaret Armstrong, an undergraduate student at the University of Delaware, remembers sitting in her fiction writing class and hearing her professor tell the class there weren’t any restrictions on ...
Daily Bruin

Applications for new creative writing minor to open in fall

UCLA’s new creative writing minor will open applications this fall. The minor will require students to take two courses in a core genre – either short story or poetry – after completing two ...
University of Wyoming

Program Overview

Students graduating with a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Creative Writing earn a minimum of 36 credit hours. The MFA degree requires a minimum of 32 hours of coursework, 4 hours of thesis research ...
Kaleido Scope

Creative Writing

Our workshops introduce you to the craft of writing fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Over the course of a semester, you will learn ways of shaping stories and poems through various exercises ...