Courses in creative writing within the Arts Program are designed for students who wish to develop their skills and appreciation of creative writing in a variety of genres (poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, playwriting, screenwriting) and for those intending to pursue studies in creative writing at the graduate level.
Any English major may include one Creative Writing course in the major plan. Non-English majors may pursue a minor as described under Degree Options. While there is no existing major in Creative Writing, exceptionally well qualified students have completed majors in Creative Writing through the Independent Major Program.
All students interested in pre-registering for Creative Writing courses for must:
(1) preregister
(2)
download and print a Creative Writing Program questionnaire, complete this and drop it off (hard copy) to
Professor Daniel Torday's faculty mailbox in English House by the end of
the pre-registration period
NEWS
Announcing the 2013 Literary Prize Winners:
Academy of American Poets Prize (poetry)
WINNER:
Thanh-Trang Hoang-Le
"A mathematician would assume," "old story,"
"uphill," "Monkey," "music," and "why my grandfather likes Christmas"
HONORABLE
MENTIONS:
Gillian Diffendeerfer for "I.," "emergence," "A un conocido
(To an Acquaintance)," and "tu mirada / your gaze"
Mowie Freeman for
"Sometimes I think I don't need anything," "Like when Sally Waters
returned to Red Hook," "Planting," and "all answers to hunger”
Bain-Swiggett Poetry Prize
WINNER: Hema Surendranathan, "On the Plane with My Grandmother"
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
Emily Strong, "Call Back"
Thanh-Trang Hoang-Le, "Hatching Chickens in Hanoi"
Alexandra Peschka Prize (imaginative writing: prose fiction or nonfiction)
WINNER: Hannah Hynes-Mumford "And Now I Think 'Dinner Plates’”
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
Kathryn Darling "Chincoteague"
Eileen Morgan "The Private Diary of Mr. John Tobias Williams, Esq."
Anne Kirschbaum Winkelman Literary Prize (short story)
WINNER: Hema Surendranathan, “Sorolineal”
HONORABLE MENTION: Laura Reeve, “Stolen Story”
Katherine Fullerton Gerould Award (fiction, informal essays, poetry)
CO-WINNERS: Hannah Hynes-Mumford, “Hugging Saints”
Mattie Wechsler “Twice”
Seymour Adelman Poetry Award (poetry-related project)
WINNER:
Mowie Freeman: The author proposes to revisit small towns in Ohio that
inspired the poems and short prose written since 2012 when she cycled
through them. She will gather the finished work into a self-published
chapbook. The judges found her work notable for the rhythms, images and
voices of a rural community seen as inseparable from the land.
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--CWP professor Elizabeth Mosier's essay, "The Pit and the Page," appears in the latest issue of the magazine Creative Nonfiction. The Winter 2013 is devoted to women writers of nonfiction.
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CWP DIRECTOR DANIEL TORDAY WINS NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD
The 2012 National Jewish Book Awards' Goldberg Prize for Outstanding Debut Fiction has gone to The Sensualist, a short novel by Bryn Mawr's Director of Creative Writing, Daniel Torday. Previous honorees have included Nathan Englander, Gary Shteyngart and Lara Vapnyar. This year's NJBA winners include Nobel Laureate Eric Kandel and The New Republic editor Franklin Foer.
FICTION WRITER ROBIN BLACK TO SERVE AS BRYN MAWR DISTINGUISHED VISITING WRITER
Bryn Mawr’s Creative Writing Program is excited to announce short story writer and essayist Robin Black will serve as the college’s Distinguished Visiting Writer for the Fall 2012 semester. Black’s debut collection of short stories, If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This, was a finalist for the prestigious Frank O’Connor Award, and has been published in seven countries. In the Chicago Tribune, critic Alan Cheuse says, “Black delivers real emotion, the kind that gives you pause. I want to shout about how just when you thought no one could write a story with any tinge of freshness, let alone originality, about childhood, marriage, old age, Black has done it.” Black's stories and essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, One Story, The Georgia Review and many other magazines and journals. She will also give a reading from her work on Wednesday, February 6, 2013, as part of the Bryn Mawr Creative Writing Reading Series.
