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2025 Creative Writing Prizes

Recognizing excellence in fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, journalistic writing, scriptwriting, and reviews. Deadline Friday, March 7, at 12pm noon.

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Declaring a major or minor

Declare your major in Creative Writing, your minor in Creative Writing, or your minor in Journalistic Writing in just a few steps.

How to declare
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Majors and More Dinner

Please join the English Department and Creative Writing Program for our annual Majors and More dinner!

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Welcome to the Creative Writing Program at Penn

We are home to a faculty of award-winning writers who teach more than sixty workshops each year in fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, journalism, playwriting, screenwriting, and writing for children and young adults, as well as innovative workshops in cross-genre, experimental, and hybrid writing, including writing that engages with community organizing, multimedia and visual arts, and performance.