Creative Writing at The University of Chicago

Welcome to the Creative Writing department at the University of Chicago. Students at Chicago pursue creative writing within the larger context of academic study. While the purpose of the program is, above all, to give students a rigorous background in the fundamentals of creative work by providing them with the opportunity to study with established poets and prose writers, it differs from the professional, free-standing creative writing programs at other universities in seeing itself as an integral part of the university’s intellectual life, and most particularly in providing opportunities for interdisciplinary work. Learn more.

See our EVENTS page for our full Spring schedule including readings and talks by Debra Gwartney, Michael Henry Heim, George Saunders, Jonathan Harr and Ivan Brunetti.
And visit poetics.uchicago.edu for information about poetry and poetics events (readings, lectures, conferences) on campus.

2008 College Honors Awards Winners in Writing announced
The 2nd Story Annual Storytelling Festival -- Megan Stielstra will perform on Sunday, April 20th and on Saturday, May 10th for Faking It.
Pilcrow Lit Festival May 22nd-25th: The Pilcrow Literary Festival will bring together writers, poets, librarians, booksellers and publishers from around the country together in support of small presses and independent media through small workshops, panel discussions, lectures and author readings. Elizabeth Crane and Megan Stielstra are participants.
Elizabeth Crane is on tour for her new collection of short stories,You Must Be This Happy To Enter.
Applications for the LITERARY TRANSLATION WORKSHOP with MICHAEL HENRY HEIM are DUE APRIL 16
Visting Professor Ed Roberson was selected as the 2008 recipient of the Poetry Society of American's Shelley Memorial Award. Since 1929, this award has been offered annually to a poet living in the United States who is chosen on the basis of "genius and need."
Story Week 2008 at Columbia College: Stories Without Borders, March 16-21, 2008 (All events free and open to the public)
Opening Event: 2nd Story, a performance series featuring Megan Stielstra, among other writers. March 16@7:00 PM (6:30 PM doors), Martyrs', 3855 N. Lincoln
Book Release/Reading for Elizabeth Crane's YOU MUST BE THIS HAPPY TO ENTER! at Quimby’s, Feb 7, 7:00 pm, 1854 W. North Avenue
Nick Adams Short Story Contest Submissions Due FEB 25
SMART Adaptations Writing Contest Submissions Due FEB 25
Mark Slouka in the UK: Slouka's recent novel, The Visible World, has been chosen by "the British Oprah" (aka Richard and Judy), is a finalist for the British Book Award, and is currently #1 among Independent Booksellers in the UK.
Emerging Writers Series: POETRY Submisions due JAN 25
Nic Pizzolatto's first novel, Blind Riders, has been accepted for publication and will be published in hardcover in Fall 2008. He will be conducting a week-long fiction seminar this summer (Jun 08) at the Aspen Writing Conference.
SEND YOUR NEWS --We'd love to post the successes of writers in the UofC community !

Online Class Registration

Janice Knight , Interim Chair
jknight@uchicago.edu
773-702-9191/Ro 411

Julia Klein, Coordinator
jnklein@uchicago.edu
773-834-8524/Walker 411

Committee on Creative Writing
1115 E. 58th Street
Chicago, IL 60637

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