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A Conversation with Case Kerns

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On Tuesday, October 7th, at 5:30pm, in the Thompson Room, our very own Case Kerns was in conversation with Senior Lecturer and Director of Creative Writing Laura van den berg about his novel, Habitat . After reading an excerpt of his book, Case discussed...

Morris Gray Reading with Jericho Brown

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Jericho Brown is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Brown’s first book, Please...

Joseph Felkers, Class of 2023: Business & Marketing

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Job interviewers often ask me why I chose to study English and how my concentration relates to my career goals in marketing. While other applicants—my competitors—spent their undergraduate educations learning business in a more applied setting, I was...

English CNW. The Novel Workshop

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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...

Creative Writing

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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...

English 191rw. How to Tell a Story

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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...

Talk by Sebastian Smee: “When Art and Politics Collide: Manet, Morisot and Paris During ‘The Terrible Year’ (1870-71)"

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Please join the Departments of English and History of Art and Architecture for a talk by Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Sebastian Smee at 5:00pm on Monday, March 30th in the Sackler Lecture Hall at 485 Broadway in Cambridge. Smee is the author of...

English CAKV. Fiction Workshop: Writing from the First-Person Point of View

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Instructor: Andrew Krivak Tuesday, 9:00-11:45 1m | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Course Site This course is a workshop intended for students who are interested in writing longer form narratives from the first-person point of view. The...

English CNMJ. Fiction Workshop: Forms and Styles

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Instructor: Meng Jin Thursday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: Barker 316 Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Course site What gives a fictional work life and meaning and originality? In this workshop, students will be exposed to and try on a wide range of forms...

Humanities 9: Reading for Fiction Writers

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Instructors: Neel Mukherjee and Laura van den Berg Monday & Wednesday, 10:30-11:45am | Location: TBD There is no writing without reading. This is a fact that all writers know. Ask any writer why they became a writer, and they'll tell you that it's because...

Postponed until Fall 2022, new date TBA - Morris Gray Lecture featuring Jericho Brown

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In support of our graduate student workers, we are postponing the Morris Gray Poetry Reading with Jericho Brown to Fall 2022. Jericho Brown is author of The Tradition (Copper Canyon 2019), for which he won the Pulitzer Prize. He is the recipient of...

Writers at Work: Living as Readers

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RSVP is required. You can register for this event here. Please join us for our new lecture series hosted by the Creative Writing Faculty in the Harvard English Department inviting writers to discuss their work. Featuring Rachel Cohen and Katharine Smyth...