Course offerings

The Creative Writing Program offers 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. Several courses are cross-listed in Africana Studies, Urban Studies, Fine Arts, Theatre Arts, Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, and History and Sociology of Science, and are Academically Based Community Service (ABCS) courses. Our courses count toward the Creative Writing concentration in English and the Creative Writing or Journalistic Writing minors; some fulfill General Education requirements in the College. Any student in the four undergraduate schools at Penn (College, Wharton, Engineering, Nursing) may take Creative Writing courses as electives.