U-WRTG-MIN - Creative Writing - Minor

The English Department is home to the creative writing faculty at Duke. We offer introductory, intermediate and advanced courses in fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction, including specialized courses on topics that intersect with disciplines beyond English—Playwriting, Writing Across Borders, and Writing about Research. Our creative writing faculty are widely-published novelists, poets, playwrights and essayists who have received many honors, including the National Book Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Whiting Award, a McDowell Colony Fellowship, and the PEN/Hemingway Award. Creative writing workshops are intimate seminar courses where students can explore various genres at once or hone their craft in a single genre of writing. The department also offers opportunities for students to work directly with Blackburn Visiting Writers. In addition to The Blackburn Reading Series, which brings distinguished contemporary authors to campus each campus each year, we host the ongoing Little Corner Reading Series and annual undergraduate creative writing contests in fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction.

Website: english.duke.edu/undergraduate/minor-creative-writing