Welcome to the undergraduate Creative Writing Program. Located in the very heart of literary Greenwich Village, the undergraduate program offers students the opportunity to immerse themselves in the writing life with workshops, readings, internships, writing prizes, and events designed to cultivate and inspire.

Our distinguished faculty of award-winning poets, novelists, short story writers, and memoirists represents a wide array of contemporary aesthetics. In recent years, our creative writing instructors have been the recipients of Pulitzer Prizes, National Book and National Book Critics Circle Awards, NEA Fellowships, Guggenheim Fellowships, Pushcart Prizes, a Whitbread First Novel Award, and the Whiting Writers Award.

Our popular Minor in Creative Writing provides students with an exciting progression of coursework, ranging from an introduction to the fundamentals of the craft to more advanced explorations of specific forms, techniques, and genres. We also offer Master Classes led by acclaimed poets and prose writers (recent Master Class instructors have included Emily Barton, Anne Carson & Robert Currie, Junot Díaz, Aleksandar Hemon, Marie Howe, David Lipsky, Rick Moody, Meghan O'Rourke, Susan Orlean, and Zadie Smith). Each master class provides intensive mentoring and guidance for serious and talented undergraduate writers.

Students seeking intensive summer study with acclaimed faculty can choose from three exciting undergraduate summer writing programs, Writers in Florence, Writers in New York and Writers in Paris. These programs offer poets and fiction writers opportunities to develop their craft while living the writer’s life in Florence, Greenwich Village, or Paris. Each intensive program is four weeks and awards eight points of credit. In addition to our summer intensive programs, we offer three-week intensive workshops over Winter Session and several on-campus summer workshops during both of NYU's six-week summer sessions. 

The Undergraduate Creative Writing Program also has a strong presence outside of the classroom. Students are encouraged to attend our Reading Series, participate in departmental writing contests and special events for undergraduates, explore internship opportunities, keep abreast of literary news and events via our Undergraduate Listserv, and contribute to our undergraduate literary journal, West 10th, as writers or editors.

If you have questions about the undergraduate Creative Writing Program, please look over our Undergraduate FAQ or contact us by phone (212-998-8816) or email (creative.writing@nyu.edu).