Hone your writing skills, deepen your knowledge of contemporary literature, reflect on the world, and engage with your imagination.
The Creative Writing Program offers students the opportunity to pursue fiction, nonfiction and poetry. Some creative writing courses are taught primarily as workshops, with an emphasis on drafting and discussing student manuscripts, while others take up special topics such as science writing and memoir and the psyche. All of them expose students to contemporary literature, teach them to read like writers, and allow them to explore countless approaches to telling stories, crafting images, and developing an ear for language.
Program Highlights
The program invites students to develop their own writing practices as well as join a community of working writers. Students in creative writing:
- study with professors who are themselves published writers working in all three genres
- select from a range of creative writing and literature courses that allow them to create a minor or concentration that is tailored to their interests
- interact with some of the nation's most critically acclaimed writers through the Creative Writing Program's reading series
- present their own work through writing contests, student reading series, and Holy Cross' literary magazine, The Purple
Creative Writing News
Philip Metres ’92 thinks back on his time as a senior English major at the College working on a creative writing honors thesis under the tutelage of Robert Cording, professor emeritus of English. Now an award-winning poet and professor of English himself at John Carroll University, Metres recounts his trip down memory lane via his old college journals...
I have always heard wonderful things about the English program at Holy Cross, and the College overall, so it was one of the first places I visited during my college search. Upon visiting, I immediately fell in love with the beautiful campus and felt instantly comfortable and safe here. I knew it was the perfect place for me...
