The Creative Writing Concentrationat UC Santa Cruz
General Information
Creative Writing, a concentration within theLiterature major, offers a sequence of workshopsfrom introductory through advanced levels in both poetry and fiction. Other activities available tointerested students include participation in thecreation of literary journals on campus, attendanceat readings by visiting writers, and the use of thecreative writing library at Kresge College.
Admission to the Creative WritingConcentration
Admission to this concentration is selective.Interested students are required to take one lower-division workshop at UCSC before applying to the creative writing concentration; however,students are strongly encouraged to complete twolower-division workshops (at least one at UCSC)before applying.Students accepted into the concentration mustcomplete three advanced writing workshops and asenior project (e.g., a group of stories, a significant portion of a novel, a collection of poems). Toapply for admission to the creative writingconcentration, students should submit a completedapplication form (available at the LiteratureDepartment Office) and a thoughtful selectionfrom their work (eight–ten pages of poetry, oreight–ten pages of fiction, comprising at least twostories). Applications are accepted on the second Friday of each quarter. Once accepted into theconcentration, students are required to declare (orre-declare) the Creative Writing concentration inLiterature.
Department of Literatureliterature.ucsc.eduCreative Writing Program humanities.ucsc.edu/CWPlitdept@ucsc.edu(831) 459-4778
Creative Writing Faculty
Nathaniel E. Mackey
Twentieth-century American literature; Afro- American literature; creative writing.Humanities 1, room 628 • 459-2051mackey@ucsc.edu
Micah Perks
Reading and writing contemporary fiction;memoir; historical fiction; gender, literature, andculture; alternative communities.Humanities 1, room 233 • 459-4586meperks@ucsc.edu
Rob Wilson
Transnational and postcolonial literatures;especially as located in Asia/Pacific emergences as posited against American empire of globalization;cultural poetics of America; the sublime; Longinus to Hiroshima; mongrel poetics of experimental writing, especially poetry.Humanities 1, room 631 • 459-2401rwilson@ucsc.edu
Karen Tei Yamashita
History and anthropology of Japaneseimmigration to Brazil; Asian American literature;modern fiction; playwriting.Humanities 1, room 231 • 459-2167ktyamash@ucsc.edu
2009-10 Visiting Faculty
Dion Farquhar
(Winter 2010)
Experimental writing, contemporary poetry,fiction, and plays; the prose poem; classicliterature.dnfarquhar@gmail.com
Andrea Quaid
(Spring 2010)
All forms of creative writing; experimental poetryand prose writing; hybrid; multi-genre writing;exploration of the connections between creativeand critical writing.aquaid@ucsc.edu
Melissa Sanders-Self
(Fall 2009, Spring 2010)Contemporary fiction; modern American Southernliterature; classic literature; screenplays.sanderself@gmail.com
Gary Young
(Fall 2009, Spring 2010)The prose poem; fine printing; print making; publishing and book design.GYoungGRP@aol.com
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