However, they suggest, creative writing programs help aspiring authors develop their writing skills and allow space and time to complete long-term writing projects.

Learn what it takes to earn a master’s in creative writing, including admission requirements, common coursework, popular specializations and career paths.

Last month an official notice went out at Vassar College announcing reductions in the creative-writing curriculum, a move that many fear will lead to the demise of my alma mater’s future ...

The author has awarded grants of up to $50,000 to 12 writers with the aim of allowing them to dedicate the time and resources needed to complete their manuscripts, in partnership with a number of ...

For decades, creative-writing programs have been knocked as faddish factories for self-conscious strivers. But Mark McGurl says it’s time to take those programs seriously.

At SUNY Cortland, our three writing programs work together to cultivate a rigorous and diverse intellectual community, in which students develop as writers. Our mission is to teach writing as ...

The University of New Haven’s Writing Across the Curriculum program is one of only four programs in the country to earn the Writing Program Certificate of Excellence from the Conference on College ...

Home page for the Creative Writing program in the department of English at the University of Wyoming.

Delaney set out to assess the burgeoning—and predominantly American—phenomenon of the graduate program in creative writing. Thirty years ago, he notes, there were 50 programs; today the number ...