Our Creative Writing Program prepares students with a broad and balanced program of study that emphasizes interconnections between various literary genres: fiction, poetry, nonfiction, playwriting, and screenwriting.
Faculty
Our faculty are both scholars and teachers who devote their careers to making important contributions to their disciplines through writing and research. They are committed to undergraduate education and teach everything from first-year seminars to advanced courses.
View FacultyAll of this semester's CRWR-related applications, with their relevant instructions, are now available on the CRWR Departmental Blackboard site, in the folder named All Forms and Applications.
If you intend to apply to the major, take a CRWR 300-level workshop, or take CRWR 490 (the capstone seminar) in Spring 2020, please fill out the appropriate application(s). Please note that all applications for the Spring 2020 Semester are due by Friday 1 November 2019 at noon.
Program Overview
Oberlin’s Creative Writing Program is one of few in the country that offers a major at the undergraduate level. Established here in 1975 by poet and translator Stuart Friebert, creative writing is an intense and rigorous course of study that provides instruction, studio training, and coursework in six genres: poetry, fiction, nonfiction, drama, translation, and screenwriting.
In keeping with the liberal arts tradition, we prepare you with a broad and balanced program of study that emphasizes interconnections between various literary genres. Majors will have some interdisciplinary study through a playwriting course and courses offered by the departments of English and comparative literature.
Our faculty members are accomplished writers and poets who will work closely with you to deepen reading and writing abilities and to enhance self and peer editing, analysis, and critical thinking skills.
Creative Writing Bulletins
Emma Howell Poetry Contest
Upcoming Creative Writing Events
"In the Moment: Improvisations in Poetry from Around the World"
Creative Writing News
Creative Writing Facilities
