Creative Writing Program
Director: Paul Griner, pfgrin01@gwise.louisville.edu
319 C Bingham Humanities
University of Louisville
Louisville, Kentucky 40292
Phone: (502) 852-3053
Fax: (502) 852-4182
Photo: Painting, Twelfth Night by Walter Deverell
The Creative Writing Program at U of L offers a variety of creative writing courses covering the major genres of poetry, fiction, drama and creative nonfiction at the graduate and undergraduate level.
At the graduate level, we offer an MA with a concentration in Creative Writing where students have a thesis or a non-thesis option.
The program hosts several visiting writers each semester through the Anne & William Axton reading series. In addition to the popular public reading given by each writer, the series affords students an opportunity to have their work read and critiqued in master classes led by these distinguished fiction writers, poets, and playwrights. Recent visiting writers include Robert Pinsky, Stuart Dybeck, George Saunders, Kim Edwards, Maureen Howard, Colson Whitehead, Galway Kinnell, Edmund White, Cleopatra Mathis and Erin Belieu.
Graduate students can apply for one of two Axton Teaching Assistantships. In addition to valuable teaching experience, Axton TAs assist the Director of Creative Writing in coordinating the reading series.
The program also sponsors an annual Creative Writing contest, and distributes more than $20,000 in creative writing scholarships annually among exceptional current students.
A&S Faculty Assembly 3
Deadline Extension-MA Culminating Prospectus
