Creative Writing Program
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 undergraduate level, we offer a full range of Creative Writing courses that guide the student through Introductory to Advanced courses, with Special Topics courses along the way. Students also have the opportunity to participate in Master Classes with notable visiting writers.
At the graduate level, we offer an MA with a concentration in Creative Writing where students take a variety of courses, including Graduate Level Creative Writing Workshops. These students have the opportunity to participate in Master Classes with notable visiting writers. The MA features a choice between a thesis or a non-thesis option.
The Creative Writing program hosts several visiting writers each semester through the Anne & William Axton Reading Series. In addition to the public reading given by each writer, the Axton Reading Series affords students an opportunity to have their work read and critiqued in master classes led by these distinguished fiction writers, poets, playwrights, essayists, and screenwriters. Past visitors include Maggie Smith, Garth Greenwell, Lauren Groff, Joyelle McSweeney, Brian Teare, George Saunders, Kiki Petrosino, Claire Wahmanholm, Colson Whitehead, Ilya Kaminsky, Allen Gee, Casey Plett, Mitchell L. H. Douglas, and Wendy Xu.
The Creative Writing program awards more than $20,000 in creative writing scholarships annually among exceptional, active students. The program also sponsors the Calvino Prize, an international contest which honors two writers of outstanding pieces of fiction in the fabulist, experimentalist style of Italo Calvino.
Contact
Kristi Maxwell
Director of Creative Writing
kristi.maxwell@louisville.edu
319A D Bingham Humanities
University of Louisville
Louisville, Kentucky 40292
Phone: (502) 852-0504
Fax: (502) 852-4182
Links
Creative Writing Student Features: Across the Bluegrass
Creative Writing Scholarships and Awards
Creative Writing Contests
Axton Reading Schedule
Faculty Readings
Faculty Bios
Alumni News
