Welcome to the undergraduate Creative Writing Program. Located in the very heart of literary Greenwich Village, the undergraduate program offers students the opportunity to immerse themselves in the writing life with workshops, readings, internships, writing prizes, and events designed to cultivate and inspire.

Our distinguished faculty of award-winning poets, novelists, short story writers, and memoirists represents a wide array of contemporary aesthetics. In recent years, our creative writing instructors have been the recipients of National Book Awards, NEA Fellowships, Guggenheim Fellowships, Pushcart Prizes, and the Whiting Writer's Award.

Our popular Minor in Creative Writing provides students with an exciting progression of coursework, ranging from an introduction to the fundamentals of the craft to more advanced explorations of specific forms, techniques, and genres. We also offer Master Classes led by acclaimed poets and prose writers (teaching this year are Anne Carson and Robert Currie, Jennifer Egan, and Susan Orlean). Each master class will provide intensive mentoring and guidance for serious and talented undergraduate writers.

Students seeking intensive summer study with acclaimed faculty can choose from two exciting undergraduate summer writing programs, Writers in New York and Writers in Paris. The new programs offer poets and fiction writers opportunities to develop their craft while living the writer’s life in either Greenwich Village or Paris. Each intensive program is four weeks and awards eight points of credit. Application information for Summer 2010 will be available on our website in early 2010. In addition to our summer intensive programs, we offer several on-campus summer workshops during both of NYU's six-week summer sessions. 

The Undergraduate Creative Writing Program also has a strong presence outside of the classroom. Students are encouraged to attend our Reading Series, explore internship opportunities, keep abreast of literary news and events via our Undergraduate Listserv, and contribute to our undergraduate literary journal, West 10th, as writers or editors.

If you have questions about the undergraduate Creative Writing Program, please look over our Undergraduate FAQ or contact us by phone (212-998-8816) or email (creative.writing@nyu.edu).