Creative Writing Courses
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The Department of English offers workshop courses in the writing of fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction for those students who wish to gain experience in creative writing. Students are encouraged to submit their work to college publications such as Manuscript and to enter Carleton's literary contests. |
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Carleton professors of creative writing are poet Gregory Hewett and novelist Gregory Blake Smith. Our visiting creative writing professor is Dennis Cass who teaches creative non-fiction. The Department is also pleased to welcome back Douglas McGill who will offer a course in journalism and Keith Harrison who will teach a five-week course in advanced essay writing. Brief biographies of our visitors can be accessed on the right sidebar of this page. In addition to the courses offered by Carleton faculty members, the department brings visiting writers to campus to read and to conduct workshops in their specialties. Visitors in recent years have included playwrights Lee Blessing, Barbara Field, Tony Kushner, and Bridget Carpenter; memoirists Carol Bly and Patricia Hampl; poets Robert Creeley, Carolyn Forche, Donald Justice, Czeslaw Milos, Alberto Rios, and Cole Swensen; fiction-writers Paule Marshall, Ann Beattie, Alison McGhee, John Updike, Kate Wenner, and Carleton graduate, Jane Hamilton. |
| Creative Writing Courses: Academic Year 2009-2010: |
| Fall Term: |
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ENGL 259: Advanced Essay Writing - Keith Harrison ENGL 260: Introduction to Creative Writing - Gregory Hewett ENGL 270: The Crafts of Writing: The Short Story - Gregory Blake Smith ENGL 272: Truth vs Power: A Journey in Journalism - Douglas McGill |
| Winter Term: |
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ENGL 270: The Crafts of Writing: The Short Story - Gregory Blake Smith ENGL 271: The Crafts of Writing: Poetry - Gregory Hewett |
| Spring Term: |
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ENGL 280: The Crafts of Writing: Creative Non-fiction - Dennis Cass ENGL 370: Advanced Crafts of Writing: The Short Story - Gregory Smith ENGL 371: Advanced Crafts of Writing: Poetry - Gregory Hewett |
| Instructions for Registering for ENGL 370 and 371:
To be considered for admittance to these courses, students must submit a sample of their work in the genre: a story for ENGL 370 and poem for ENGL 371. Submissions should be put in the instructors mailboxes on 2nd Laird. Enrollment will be based on the quality of the submitted work. Everyone who registers for these courses will be placed on the waiting lists until class enrollments have been finalized. The English Department hopes to be able to let you know whether or not you have been admitted to these courses by the last day of classes Winter Term. |
