# Creative Writing ## expand\_more The vital presence of creative writing in the English Department is reflected by our many distinguished authors who teach our workshops. We offer courses each term in fiction, poetry, nonfiction, screenwriting, playwriting, and television writing. Our workshops are small, usually no more than twelve students, and offer writers an opportunity to focus intensively on one genre. ## Apply to Creative Writing Workshops Workshops are open by application to Harvard College undergraduates, graduate students, staff, and students from other institutions eligible for cross registration. Submission guidelines for workshops can be found under individual course listings; please do not query instructors. [Review all departmental rules and application instructions before applying.](https://harvardcw.submittable.com/submit) Fall 2026 Application Deadline: **THE DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL 12pm, THIS** **WENDESDAY, April 8, 2026** Spring 2027 Application Deadline: TBD [Please visit our course listings for all the Fall 2026 workshops.](/fall-term-2026) **Our online submission manager (link below) will open for Fall 2026 applications by** **Monday, March 23, 2026.** Students who have questions about the creative writing workshop application process should contact Case Q. Kerns at [cqkerns@fas.harvard.edu](mailto:cqkern@fas.harvard.edu) or Lauren Bimmler at . To apply online: ##### [Click here to Submit](http://harvardcw.submittable.com/submit) ## Featured Faculty ![Teju Cole](/sites/g/files/omnuum1611/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/english/files/cole.jpg?itok=GkDJxeNQ) **Teju Cole** is a novelist, critic, and essayist, and is the first Gore Vidal Professor of the Practice. "Among other works, the boundary-crossing author is known for his debut novel “Open City” (2011), whose early admirers included Harvard professor and New Yorker critic James Wood." [Read more](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/12/open-city-author-teju-cole-to-teach-creative-writing-at-harvard/) ## Faculty Bookshelf [### The Autobiography of My Mother: A Novel by Jamaica Kincaid (1996) ](https://www.amazon.com/Autobiography-My-Mother-Novel-Classics/dp/0374531870) [### The Burning Girl by Claire Messud (2017) ](https://wwnorton.com/home) [### The Last Shot: City Streets, Basketball Dream by Darcy Frey (2004) ](https://www.amazon.com/Last-Shot-Streets-Basketball-Dreams/dp/0618446710/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1372351376&sr=1-1&keywords=The+Last+Shot%3A+City+Streets%2C+Basketball+Dreams) [### Once the Shore by Paul Yoon (2009) ](https://www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/once-the-shore-paul-yoon) [### The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud (2007) ](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/113602/the-emperors-children-by-claire-messud/9780307276667/) [### The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud (2013) ](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/209919/the-woman-upstairs-by-claire-messud/9780307743763/) [### The Third Hotel by Laura van den Berg (2018) ](https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374168353) [### The Mountain: Stories by Paul Yoon (2017) ](https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Mountain/Paul-Yoon/9781501154096) arrow\_back arrow\_forward Fall 2026 Spring 2026 Fall 2025 ## Fall 2026 [### English 191rw. How to Tell a Story ](/english-191rw-reading-fiction-writers) Instructors: Neel Mukherjee and Laura van den Berg Monday & Wednesday, 10:30-11:45 am | Location: TBD How to tell a story? How do writers discover character, imagine worlds, and shape narrative time? This open-enrollment creative writing course will focus... description [### English CBW. Fiction Workshop: Bending Worlds ](/english-cbw-fiction-workshop-bending-worlds-0) Instructor: Laura van den Berg Tuesday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Julio Cortázar: “The fantastic breaks the crust of appearance … something grabs us by the shoulders to throw us outside ourselves.” This workshop will... description [### English CFE. Advanced Fiction ](/english-cfe-advanced-fiction) Instructor: Neel Mukherjee Fall 2026 Wednesday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Spring 2026 Wednesday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students The course will consist of two halves. In the first hour of each class, we will be doing... description [### English CHCR. Advanced Poetry: Workshop ](/english-chcr-advanced-poetry-workshop) Instructor: Josh Bell Fall 2026 Monday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Spring 2027 TBD | Location: TBD Spring 2026 Monday, 6:00-8:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students By guided reading, classroom discussion, one on one conference, and... description [### English CKPV. The Theory and Practice of Point of View ](/english-ckpv-theory-and-practice-point-view) Instructor: Andrew Krivák Tuesday, 9:00-11:45am | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students This workshop will be a semester-long study on how, where, and why a writer chooses to use a particular point of view. Taking the word “point” quite... description [### English CKR. Introduction to Playwriting: Workshop ](/english-ckr-introduction-playwriting-workshop) Instructor: Sam Marks Tuesday, 12:00-2:45 pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students This workshop is an introduction to writing for the stage through intensive reading and in-depth written exercises. Each student will explore the fundamentals... description [### English CLR. Introduction to Screenwriting: Workshop ](/english-clr-introduction-screenwriting-workshop-0) Instructor: Musa Syeed Fall 2026 Tuesday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Spring 2026 Tuesday, 12:45-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students The short film, with its relatively lower costs of production and expanded distribution... description [### English CMCO. Intermediate Creative Nonfiction Workshop: Comedy and Creative Nonfiction ](/english-cmco-intermediate-creative-nonfiction-workshop-comedy-and-creative-nonfiction) Instructor: Melissa Cundieff Thursday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students In this workshop-based class, students will be asked to use humor as the bedrock of their creative nonfiction writing. Humor connects us as human beings... description [### English CMDW. Dramatic Writing for Social Change ](/english-cmdw-dramatic-writing-social-change) Instructor: Ricardo Pérez González Tuesday, 12:00-2:45 pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Stories are a fundamental unit of cultural communication. Our shared cultural mythology is how we disseminate communal values. This course is... description [### English CMOW. Opinion Writing for Science and Medicine ](/english-cmow-opinion-writing-science-and-medicine) Instructor: Jason Silverstein Monday, 9:45-11:45am | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students This course is a practicum in writing publishable op-eds on health, science, and injustice. Week by week we dissect how writers use investigations and... description [### English CMPC. Introductory Poetry Workshop: A Circle Within a Circle Within a Circle ](/english-cmpc-introductory-poetry-workshop-circle-within-circle-within-circle) Instructor: Melissa Cundieff Thursday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students In this workshop-based class, students will explore and put to use the various, crucial components of poem writing, such as image, metaphor, line, form... description [### English CMUB. Artist in Residence: Writing Unruly Bodies ](/english-cmub-artist-residence-writing-unruly-bodies) Instructor: Roxane Gay Wednesday, 1:00pm-4:00pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students We spend our lives in unruly, all too human bodies. While doing so, we must contend with the public narratives about our bodies - how they are seen and... description [### English CMWD. The Writer Directs: A Script to Screen Workshop ](/english-cmwd-writer-directs-script-screen-workshop) Instructor: Musa Syeed Wednesday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Writing is directing and directing is writing. The best screenwriters don’t just write snappy dialogue or craft character arcs; they “speak” the primal... description [### English CNFR. Creative Nonfiction: Workshop ](/english-cnfr-creative-nonfiction-0) Instructor: Darcy Frey Fall 2026 Section 001 Wednesday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Section 002 Thursday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Spring 2027 Sections 001 and 002 TBD | Location: TBD Spring 2026 Wednesday, 3:00-5:45 pm | Location: TBD Enrollment... description [### English CNW. The Novel Workshop ](/english-cnw-novel-workshop) Instructor: Nick White Fall 2026 Section 001 Wednesday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Section 002 Thursday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Spring 2027 TBD | Location: TBD Spring 2026: Wednesday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students... description [### English CSAS. Pictures into Words: Writing About Art ](/english-csas-pictures-words-writing-about-art) Instructor: Sebastian Smee Wednesday, 9:00-11:45am | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students In an attention economy, with phone cameras and AI ubiquitous, are we losing the ability to describe what we see with our own eyes? What meaning can... description [### English CSJM. Who Do You Think You Are: A Creative Nonfiction Workshop ](/english-csjm-who-do-you-think-you-are-creative-nonfiction-workshop) Instructor: Saeed Jones Thursday, 12:00-2:45 pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students People don't just happen. In this workshop-based class, students will explore the capacity of memoir and cultural criticism to illuminate their... description [### English CTV. Writing for Television: Developing the Pilot: Workshop ](/english-ctv-writing-television-developing-pilot-workshop) Instructor: Sam Marks Fall 2026 Monday, 12:00-2:45pm| Location: TBD Spring 2026 Tuesday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students This workshop introduces the television pilot with a focus on prestige drama and serialized comedy... description [### English CWNM. Magazine Journalism ](/english-cnwm-nonfiction-writing-magazines) Instructor: Maggie Doherty Monday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students This course will focus on longform journalism published in magazines. We will read and analyze published magazine pieces, including profiles, investigative... description ## Spring 2026 [### English CACD. The Art of Criticism ](/english-cacd-art-criticism) Instructor: Maggie Doherty Thursday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students How do we know why we like, or don’t like, a book, or a TV show, or a play? What are the different ways we can write about art? What is taste, and does it... description [### English CALR. Advanced Screenwriting: Workshop ](/english-calr-advanced-screenwriting) Instructor: Musa Syeed Spring 2027 TBD | Location: TBD Spring 2026 Wednesday, 12:45-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students The feature-length script is an opportunity to tell a story on a larger scale, and, therefore, requires... description [### English CAMR. Advanced Playwriting: Workshop ](/english-camr-advanced-playwriting) Instructor: Sam Marks Spring 2027 TBD | Location: TBD Spring 2026 Monday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students This workshop is a continued exploration of writing for the stage, with an eye towards presentation. The semester... description [### English CBBR. Intermediate Poetry: Workshop ](/english-cbbr-intermediate-poetry-workshop) Instructor: Josh Bell Spring 2027 TBD | Location: TBD Spring 2026 Tuesday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Initially, students can expect to read, discuss, and imitate the strategies of a wide range of poets writing in... description [### English CFE. Advanced Fiction ](/english-cfe-advanced-fiction) Instructor: Neel Mukherjee Fall 2026 Wednesday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Spring 2026 Wednesday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students The course will consist of two halves. In the first hour of each class, we will be doing... description [### English CHCR. Advanced Poetry: Workshop ](/english-chcr-advanced-poetry-workshop) Instructor: Josh Bell Fall 2026 Monday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Spring 2027 TBD | Location: TBD Spring 2026 Monday, 6:00-8:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students By guided reading, classroom discussion, one on one conference, and... description [### English CLAR. Getting the Words Right: The Art of Revision ](/english-clar-getting-words-right-art-revision) Instructor: Laura van den Berg Spring 2027 TBD | Location: TBD Spring 2026 Tuesday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Have you ever written a promising draft of a story or novel, only to realize you have no idea what to do... description [### English CLPG. Art of Sportswriting ](/english-clpg-play-and-games) Instructor: Louisa Thomas Monday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students In newsrooms, the sports section is sometimes referred to as the “toy department” -- frivolous and unserious, unlike the stuff of politics, business, and war... description [### English CLR. Introduction to Screenwriting: Workshop ](/english-clr-introduction-screenwriting-workshop-0) Instructor: Musa Syeed Fall 2026 Tuesday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Spring 2026 Tuesday, 12:45-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students The short film, with its relatively lower costs of production and expanded distribution... description [### English CMFG. Past Selves and Future Ghosts ](/english-cmfg-past-selves-and-future-ghosts-0) Instructor: Melissa Cundieff Tuesday, 12:00-2:45 pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students As memoirist and author Melissa Febos puts it: “The narrator is never you, and the sooner we can start thinking of ourselves on the page that way, the... description [### English CMMU. Creative Nonfiction Workshop: Using Music ](/english-cmmu-creative-nonfiction-workshop-using-music) Instructor: Melissa Cundieff Spring 2027 TBD | Location: TBD Spring 2026 Thursday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students In this workshop-based class, students will think deeply about how music is often at the center of their... description [### English CNFJ. Narrative Journalism ](/english-cnfj-narrative-journalism) Instructor: Darcy Frey Thursday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students In this hands-on writing workshop, we will study the art of narrative journalism in many different forms: Profile writing, investigative reportage, magazine... description [### English CNFR. Creative Nonfiction: Workshop ](/english-cnfr-creative-nonfiction-0) Instructor: Darcy Frey Fall 2026 Section 001 Wednesday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Section 002 Thursday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Spring 2027 Sections 001 and 002 TBD | Location: TBD Spring 2026 Wednesday, 3:00-5:45 pm | Location: TBD Enrollment... description [### English CNW. The Novel Workshop ](/english-cnw-novel-workshop) Instructor: Nick White Fall 2026 Section 001 Wednesday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Section 002 Thursday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Spring 2027 TBD | Location: TBD Spring 2026: Wednesday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students... description [### English CSAF. Autofiction ](/english-csaf-autofiction) Instructor: Namwali Serpell Monday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students In this course, we will learn about representing the “real” self and “real” life in prose fiction. The use of confessional, autobiographical, and... description [### English CSGN. Genre Fiction ](/english-csgn-genre-fiction) Instructor: Namwali Serpell Tuesday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students This course offers an education in the origins of what is now known as genre fiction: romance, the Gothic, science fiction, mystery, thriller, detective... description [### English CTCH. Form, Manifesto, and Wild Experiment: Poetry Workshop with Tina Chang ](/english-ctch-form-manifesto-and-wild-experiment-poetry-workshop-tina-chang) Instructor: Tina Chang Wednesday, 9:00-11:45am | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students The tradition of poetry is widening, drawing from many art forms, blending and fusing to create contemporary cross-pollinated forms. In this class we will... description [### English CTLL. “Telling and Retelling”: Reshaping and Remixing Myths and Fairy Tales ](/english-ctll-%E2%80%9Ctelling-and-retelling%E2%80%9D-reshaping-and-remixing-myths-and-fairy-tales) Instructor: Nick White Thursday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students This is a fiction workshop for those who are interested in retellings. In this class, we will learn how other writers of the 20 th and 21 st centuries have... description [### English CTMA. Poetry As Magic: Poetry Workshop with Tina Chang ](/english-ctma-poetry-magic-poetry-workshop-tina-chang) Instructor: Tina Chang Wednesday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Magic : [maj-ik] (noun): power or influence exerted through art; any extraordinary or mystical influence, charm, power. The name of this course pays tribute... description [### English CTV. Writing for Television: Developing the Pilot: Workshop ](/english-ctv-writing-television-developing-pilot-workshop) Instructor: Sam Marks Fall 2026 Monday, 12:00-2:45pm| Location: TBD Spring 2026 Tuesday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students This workshop introduces the television pilot with a focus on prestige drama and serialized comedy... description ## Fall 2025 [### English CAKN. Fiction Workshop: The Short Novel ](/english-cakn-fiction-workshop-short-novel) Instructor: Andrew Kriv ák Tuesday, 9:00-11:45 am | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students This course is a workshop intended for students who are interested in exploring the form of the short novel, or the “novella.” The short novel is not... description [### English CBBR. Intermediate Poetry: Workshop ](/english-cbbr-intermediate-poetry-workshop-0) Instructor: Josh Bell Tuesday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Initially, students can expect to read, discuss, and imitate the strategies of a wide range of poets writing in English; to investigate and reproduce prescribed... description [### English CBST. Blood, Sweat, Tears: The Art and Craft of Horror Writing ](/english-cbst-blood-sweat-tears-art-and-craft-horror-writing) Instructor: Nick White Thursday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students This is a fiction workshop for those who are interested in the art and craft of horror literature. In this class, we will learn how other writers have... description [### English CBW. Fiction Workshop: Bending Worlds ](/english-cbw-fiction-workshop-bending-worlds-0) Instructor: Laura van den Berg Tuesday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Julio Cortázar: “The fantastic breaks the crust of appearance … something grabs us by the shoulders to throw us outside ourselves.” This workshop will... description [### English CCDP. Found Poems, Erasures and Other Adventures in Documentary Poetry ](/english-ccdp-found-poems-erasures-and-other-adventures-documentary-poetry-0) Instructor: Tracy K. Smith Wednesday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students In their quest for clarity, revelation and consolation, poets engage with, reflect upon and speak back to the world in a range of ways. In pursuit of... description [### English CCFC. Poetry Workshop: Form & Content ](/english-ccfc-poetry-workshop-form-content) Instructor: Tracy K. Smith Monday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students In this workshop, we’ll look closely at the craft-based choices poets make, and track the effects they have upon what we as readers are made to recognize... description [### English CFLF. Flash Fiction: Writing and Workshopping the Very Short Story ](/english-cflf-flash-fiction-writing-and-workshopping-very-short-story) Instructor: Nick White Wednesday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students How can we tell a compelling story in under three pages, or in one page, or perhaps in just a single sentence? In this workshop, we will explore the genre of... description [### English CHCR. Advanced Poetry: Workshop ](/english-chcr-advanced-poetry-workshop-0) Instructor: Josh Bell Monday, 6:00-8:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students By guided reading, classroom discussion, one on one conference, and formal and structural experimentation, members of the Advanced Poetry Workshop will look to... description [### English CKR. Introduction to Playwriting: Workshop ](/english-ckr-introduction-playwriting-workshop) Instructor: Sam Marks Tuesday, 12:00-2:45 pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students This workshop is an introduction to writing for the stage through intensive reading and in-depth written exercises. Each student will explore the fundamentals... description [### English CLR. Introduction to Screenwriting: Workshop ](/english-clr-introduction-screenwriting-workshop-1) Instructor: Musa Syeed Tuesday, 12:00-2:45 pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students The short film, with its relatively lower costs of production and expanded distribution opportunities, has become one of the most disruptive, innovative modes... description [### English CMCO. Intermediate Creative Nonfiction Workshop: Comedy and Creative Nonfiction ](/english-cmco-intermediate-creative-nonfiction-workshop-comedy-and-creative-nonfiction) Instructor: Melissa Cundieff Thursday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students In this workshop-based class, students will be asked to use humor as the bedrock of their creative nonfiction writing. Humor connects us as human beings... description [### English CMDR. Creative Nonfiction: Departure and Return: "Home" as Doorway to Difference and Identity ](/english-cmdf-creative-nonfiction-departure-and-return-home-doorway-difference-and-identity) Instructor: Melissa Cundieff Thursday, 3:00-5:45 pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students In this workshop-based class, students will be asked to investigate something that directly or indirectly connects everyone: what it means to leave a... description [### English CMWD. The Writer Directs: A Script to Screen Workshop ](/english-cmwd-writer-directs-script-screen-workshop) Instructor: Musa Syeed Wednesday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Writing is directing and directing is writing. The best screenwriters don’t just write snappy dialogue or craft character arcs; they “speak” the primal... description [### English CNFJ. Narrative Journalism ](/english-cnfj-narrative-journalism-0) Instructor: Darcy Frey Thursday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students. In this hands-on writing workshop, we will study the art of narrative journalism in many different forms: Profile writing, investigative reportage, magazine... description [### English CNFR. Creative Nonfiction: Workshop ](/english-cnfr-creative-nonfiction-workshop) Instructor: Darcy Frey Wednesday, 3:00-5:45 pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Whether it takes the form of literary journalism, essay, memoir, or environmental writing, creative nonfiction is a powerful genre that allows writers to... description [### English CSJM. Who Do You Think You Are: A Creative Nonfiction Workshop ](/english-csjm-who-do-you-think-you-are-creative-nonfiction-workshop) Instructor: Saeed Jones Thursday, 12:00-2:45 pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students People don't just happen. In this workshop-based class, students will explore the capacity of memoir and cultural criticism to illuminate their... description [### English CTV. Writing for Television: Developing the Pilot: Workshop ](/english-ctv-writing-television-developing-pilot-workshop) Instructor: Sam Marks Fall 2026 Monday, 12:00-2:45pm| Location: TBD Spring 2026 Tuesday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students This workshop introduces the television pilot with a focus on prestige drama and serialized comedy... description ## Write an Honors Creative Thesis Students may apply to write a senior thesis or senior project in creative writing, although only English concentrators can be considered. Students submit applications in March of their junior year, including first-term juniors who are out of phase. The creative writing faculty considers the proposal, along with the student's overall performance in creative writing and other English courses, and notifies students about its decision in early April. Those applications are due, this coming year, on **March 26, 2026**. Students applying for a creative writing thesis or project must have completed at least one course in creative writing at Harvard before they apply. No student is guaranteed acceptance. It is strongly suggested that students acquaint themselves with the requirements and guidelines well before the thesis application is due. The creative writing director must approve any exceptions to the requirements, which must be made in writing by Monday, February 10, 2025. Since the creative writing thesis and project are part of the English honors program, acceptance to write a creative thesis is conditional upon the student continuing to maintain a 3.40 concentration GPA. If a student’s concentration GPA drops below 3.40 after the spring of the junior year, the student may not be permitted to continue in the honors program. Joint concentrators may apply to write creative theses, but we suggest students discuss the feasibility of the project well before applications are due. Not all departments are open to joint creative theses. Students who have questions about the creative writing thesis should contact the program’s Director, Laura van den Berg. ## Events Gallery ## Writers in the Parlor: Michael Pollan ![cw_events_pollan](/sites/g/files/omnuum1611/files/styles/hwp_21_9__1920x825/public/2024-07/cw_events_pollan.png?itok=3nfCXEI8)