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Creative Writing Faculty in the For more information about English Department the Creative Writing Minor including requirements, how to Amy Catanzano declare, how to pre-register for Assistant Professor of English classes, course descriptions, co- POETRY & CROSS-GENRE WRITING curricular activities, and ways
to be involved with the creative Eric Ekstrand writing community at Wake Assistant Teaching Professor Forest University, contact the Poetry POETRY minor’s director, Professor Fiction Amy Catanzano, at Joanna Ruocco [email protected] Creative Nonfiction Assistant Professor of English Screenwriting FICTION & CROSS-GENRE WRITING Playwriting Elisabeth Whitehead Creative Writing Minor Assistant Teaching Professor Department of English Wake Forest University POETRY Department of English C 201 Tribble Hall, Gulley Drive
Eric Wilson Winston Salem, NC 27109 Thomas H. Pritchard Professor of English college.wfu.edu/english/minors/ CREATIVE NONFICTION creative-writing/
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What are the requirements? The Creative Writing Minor requires five courses (15 hours), including one 300-level literature course offered by the English department. The remaining four courses consist of creative writing workshops offered by the English department (poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction) or cross-listed with the minor (playwriting and screenwriting); at Recent guest writers who visited classes and gave readings from their books. From left: George Quasha, Bhanu Kapil, Brian Evenson, and M. NourbeSe Philip. least two of these must be at the 300 level. English majors may earn a Creative Writing Minor by taking four creative writing courses (at least Explore your creativity and imagination two at the 300 level) exclusive of courses used to complete the major. The Creative Writing Minor offers students the to the English department’s popular Dillon Johnston opportunity to write in multiple literary genres such Writers Reading Series, which brings visiting poets, Do students need prior as fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, playwriting, fiction writers, and writers of creative nonfiction for experience? No prior experience is and screenwriting. Our courses are designed to teach, literary readings and class visits with students. needed. All students are welcome. cultivate, and inspire. Students are provided with an Creative writing courses are open to minors and What are some other benefits exciting range of coursework, from fundamentals of non-minors. Students who declare a Creative Writing craft to advanced explorations of forms, techniques, Minor receive first preference in enrolling in creative of creative writing? and theory. Creative writing courses are conducted in writing courses in the English department during pre- In addition to developing the imagination, creative writing can a unique workshop setting where students receive registration periods. feedback from one another and the professor on their contribute to self and world The Creative Writing Minor has many personal creative writing projects. Students experiment with knowledge. Literature can have a and professional benefits and complements all major writing exercises and respond to a diverse range of strong impact on social change. fields of study. Some students pursue graduate work Classes are supportive and contemporary literature. Creative writing courses are in creative writing to write a first book and further collaborative communities. Students taught by our faculty of award-winning fiction prepare for careers in teaching, publishing, acquire greater fluency and range in writers, poets, and creative nonfiction writers who professional writing, and other fields that emphasize generating and editing material, are committed and innovative teachers as well as creativity and the literary arts. Faculty mentoring is textual analysis, and working with active and distinguished writers in their fields. The provided to students who are interested in applying language as an artistic practice. Try a curriculum in creative writing courses is often linked to Master of Fine Arts programs in creative writing. class, and discover more!