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The Stadler Center for Poetry & Literary Arts at Bucknell University seeks to foster in a wide and varied audience an appreciation for the diversity and richness of contemporary poetry and other literary arts. Our robust programming includes readings, residencies, community programming and more.

The Sandra & Gary Sojka Poet-in-Residence program brings a distinguished poet to campus for an extended stay each spring semester. Recent poets-in-residence include Brenda Shaughnessy, Aracelis Girmay, Ross Gay, Laura Kasischke, Brenda HIllman, and Camille Dungy, among others in a long list dating to 1981.

The Philip Roth Residence in Creative Writing, named for Bucknell's most notable literary alumnus, offers up to four months of writing time, lodging in Bucknell's "Poet's Cottage," and a stipend of $5,000. A spring and a fall residency are available each year. Applications for the following academic year are due on February 1 each year.

The Stadler Center Writers Series features eight to ten literary readings during the academic year, hosting major poet and writers from the American literary community (and occasionally from abroad). All events are free and open to the public.

The Stadler Center is home to WEST BRANCH, a national journal of poetry, fiction, essays, and reviews. West Branch annually sponsors a publishing internship and creative writing contest, both for Bucknell undergraduates.

The Center has an active presence on campus and in the Lewisburg community, maintaining a Poetry Path through town and campus (and a second, age-appropriate poetry path at a local elementary school), partnering with the Lewisburg Arts Council for various events, co-sponsoring events presented by other university departments, reaching out to local correctional institutions, and otherwise contributing to the literary life of the area.

Bucknell offers a vibrant program in Creative Writing, wholly dedicated to undergraduates. The university offers a major and minor in Creative Writing. In addition to beginning and advanced workshop courses across genres, the curriculum boasts a wide range of special topics courses, as well as literary ethics and citizenship classes exploring issues of power and justice in the literary world.

Bucknell’s Creative Writing program is enhanced by its close relationship to the Stadler Center for Poetry & Literary Arts. Writers in residence regularly visit classes and conference with students on their writing. The Stadler Writers Series are integrated into class syllabi, and professional writers offer craft talks and Q&A’s across the semester.

Students at Bucknell run a Creative Writing club, a fantasy writing club (The Writers of Rohan), an undergraduate literary magazine (Confetti Head), and engage in community building activities such as regular Open Mics. Arts Merit Scholarships are available in Creative Writing for incoming students.

For further information on the Stadler Center for Poetry & Literary Arts, please visit the Stadler Center's website: http://www.bucknell.edu/stadlercenter

For more information on Bucknell's Creative Writing Program, please visit the program website:

https://www.bucknell.edu/academics/college-arts-sciences/academic-departments-programs/english/english-creative-writing

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1 Dent Drive Stadler Center for Poetry Lewisburg Pennsylvania, United States 17837 Phone: 570-577-1853 Email: [email protected] http://www.bucknell.edu/stadlercenter

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Students majoring in English distribute their courses as follows: five historical periods of English or American literature, in three genres, a pro-seminar, and two seminars. Creative writing courses may be taken at any time, with the permission of the instructor, as electives counting toward the required eight courses for the major in English.

In addition to the BA in English with coursework in creative writing, the Department of English offers a minor in creative writing for students not majoring in English. Consisting of 5 courses, the minor requires a student to select 3 from among the following: Literature and Creative Writing, Introduction to Creative Writing, Creative Writing - Fiction, Creative Writing - Nonfiction, Creative Writing - Poetry, Seminar in Creative Writing - Nonfiction, Seminar in Writing Fiction, Seminar in Writing Poetry, or Individual Projects (in Writing Fiction, Poetry, or Creative Nonfiction). In addition, at least one course above the elementary level in which drama, fiction, or poetry is studied as a genre must be taken. With the permission of the instructor, all courses in Creative Writing may be taken by students who do not elect the minor.

Within the Department of English, the Stadler Center for Poetry offers a number of programs in poetry writing. The annual Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets provides undergraduates and graduating seniors in 4-year colleges and universities an opportunity to write poetry, attend workshops, participate in tutorials with the staff, and interact with other young poets over a 4-week period in June. Admission is by selection, based chiefly on a portfolio of work. Each of the 8 poets selected is awarded a fellowship that covers all expenses except travel. The seminar does not carry academic credit.

The Bucknell Poet-in-Residence program brings a distinguished poet to campus for the entire spring semester and for 2 weeks of the Younger Poets Seminar program. Past poets-in-residence have been Carolyn Kizer, Maxine Kumin, Hayden Carruth, Karl Shapiro, Mary Oliver, Wendell Berry, Madeline De-Frees, Irving Feldman, Jean Valentine, Molly Peacock, Louis Simpson, Colette Inez, Gerald Stern, Bruce Smith, William Matthews, Afaa M. Weaver, Tess Gallagher, Peggy Shumaker, Linda Gregg, John Haines, and Betsy Sholl.

During the fall semester, the Stadler Center for Poetry offers the annual Philip Roth Residence in Creative Writing. This honorific post offers a working poet or fiction writer three months to concentrate on his or her work. Bucknell University provides a studio, an apartment, and stipend of $1,000. The Philip Roth Resident is appointed by the staff.

The Stadler Center sponsors a reading series that features as many as six readings per semester by distinguished poets and fiction writers. Each fall, the Gary and Sandra Sojka Visiting Poetry Series presents a major American poet who visits classes and gives a reading and/or lecture during his or her three-day residency. Recent Sojka poets include Maxine Kumin, Robert Pinsky, and Eavan Boland.

The Stadler Center is home to West Branch, a national journal of poetry, fiction, essays, and reviews. West Branch annually sponsors a publishing internship and creative writing contest, both for Bucknell undergraduates. Currently three undergraduate literary magazines, the Red Wheelbarrow, Mirthgrinder, and Fire & Ice, offer outlets for undergraduate poets, writers, and artists.

The annual Bucknell Poetry Slam brings national champion slam poets to campus for a workshop and a performance. They share the stage with competing 4-member teams of Bucknell student-poets. This is a raucous and enormously popular event.

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Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing +

Creative Writing is a 9-course major offered through the Creative Writing Program within the English Department. Students can take a variety of courses in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction along with courses in literary studies to fulfill the requirements.

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Graduate students pursuing the MA in English (Literary Studies) are required to take eight courses for the degree, one of which is the master's thesis. For complete information on the MA, please contact the Department of English.

The Stadler Center for Poetry offers a number of programs in creative writing. The annual Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets provides undergraduates and graduating seniors in 4-year colleges and universities an opportunity to write poetry, attend workshops, participate in tutorials with the staff, and interact with other young poets over a 4-week period in June. Admission is by selection, based chiefly on a portfolio of work. Each of the 12 poets selected is awarded a fellowship that covers all expenses except travel. The seminar does not carry academic credit.

The Bucknell Poet-in-Residence program brings a distinguished poet to campus for an extended stay during the spring semester. Past poets-in-residence include Carolyn Kizer, Maxine Kumin , Mary Oliver, Jean Valentine, Gerald Stern, William Matthews, Tess Gallagher, Linda Gregg, John Haines, Marilyn Chin, Natasha Trethewey, Mark Doty, and Terrance Hayes, among others.

The Stadler Internship offers a nationally competitive young writer and recent MFA or MA the opportunity to receive arts administration training and teaching experience. The Stadler intern serves as an associate editor for West Branch, helps to administrate Stadler Center programs, teaches an introductory level creative writing class (optional), and serves as faculty in the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets in June. The Stadler Internship is intended to provide a young writer with experience and support while he or she works on a first or second book.

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The Writing Center helps Bucknell faculty hone their writing skills and offers advice on book proposals.

To schedule an appointment with a member of the Writing Center professional staff, call 570-577-314.

Individual Consultations on Writing

Many members of the faculty and staff consult us about their own writing. In private sessions, you can talk about your ideas, read us your draft, revise a chapter of your book, edit your dissertation, or practice a professional presentation.

Individual sessions typically last for one hour. In these sessions, writers are asked to describe their chief concerns about a draft in progress and are invited to read the draft aloud to the consultant, stopping when questions arise or when the consultant or writer wishes to summarize or ask for clarification.

Consultants may provide instruction in editing and proofreading, but they will not serve as editors or proofreaders of your work.

Faculty Writers Boot Camp

Sometimes it is easier to write when you articulate your goals to like-minded peers, commit to a plan and work in the presence of others engaged in similar tasks. We sponsor writing retreats, typically lasting five days, in early January and during spring break.

Participants are expected to commit to writing together for all five days of the session, from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. each day, with scheduled breaks for coffee/tea and lunch (lunch and continental breakfast are provided).

Sign-ups are invited via the faculty listserv in November and February on a first-come, first-served basis.

For another perspective on the writing boot camp phenomenon, see Ashley Sanders' article from Inside Higher Ed .

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Faculty and staff members writing book proposals may find helpful the following documents from a book proposal workshop co-sponsored by Bucknell University Press and the Office of Sponsored Projects.

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Writing has been my passion practically since I learned to read in kindergarten. I would write stories about princesses and my family dog, Gansett. When it came time to look at colleges, I was set on attending one with a strong creative writing program. Ultimately, I graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a B.A. in Writing Seminars.

Today, colleges across the country offer creative writing as a major. Because writing skills are essential for a wide range of careers, and because most curricula emphasize broad liberal arts competencies, a degree in creative writing can set you up for success in numerous fields, whether you want to be an editor or a lawyer.

Interested in majoring in creative writing? Learn which schools offer the major and what to look for in a program.

Overview of the Creative Writing Major

Creative writing is about more than spinning tales. For your major, you’ll generally need to pursue a curriculum grounded in literature, history, foreign language, and other humanities courses, along with distribution courses, if the college requires them.

Most creative writing majors must participate in workshops, in which students present their work and listen to peer critiques, usually with a certain number of advanced courses in the mix. In some cases, colleges will ask you to specialize in a particular genre, such as fiction, poetry, or playwriting. 

To succeed in creative writing, you’ll need to have a tough spine, in order to open yourself up to feedback from your classmates and instructors. You may need to give readings in public — if not as an undergraduate, certainly during your career. Of course, a passion for creating is essential, too, as is a willingness to revise your work and learn from the greats and your peers.

A creative writing major opens up doors to many careers, including journalism, content marketing, copywriting, teaching, and others. Even careers that don’t center around writing often have a strong writing component: you’ll need to write reports, deliver presentations, and so on.

Some writers go on to earn an MFA, which will help you hone your craft. It’s also often a prerequisite for teaching creative writing at the college level.

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Many world-renowned authors have another claim to fame: professorships. Writers who have taught their craft include (among many others):

• Maya Angelou (Wake Forest University)
• Colson Whitehead (many colleges, including Vassar College and Columbia University)
• Stephen Dixon (Johns Hopkins University)
• Viet Thanh Nguyen (University of Southern California)
• Eula Biss (Northwestern University)
• Toni Morrison (Princeton University)

Be aware that as an undergraduate, you may not be able to learn from the greats. That’s why it’s important to look into which courses these faculty teach before you have dreams of being mentored by Salman Rushdie — who is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at NYU.

Genres Offered

While many schools that have creative writing majors offer fiction and poetry courses and tracks, there are some niche genres that could be more difficult to find. If you’re interested in playwriting, for example, you won’t find that at every school. Before you decide on a program, be sure it includes the genres you’d like to explore further, whether that’s flash fiction, creative nonfiction, or something else.

Workshopping Opportunities

The core of most quality creative writing curriculum is workshopping. This means sharing your work in your classes and listening to your peers discuss and critique it. While this may sound intimidating, it can do a lot to help you hone your work and become a better writer. Look for colleges that make this the bedrock of their curriculum.

Showcasing Opportunities

Are there opportunities to present your work, such as college-sponsored readings where undergraduates can participate? Or, perhaps the school has a great literary journal. At my school, students could submit their plays and have them performed by fellow students. 

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What Are Your Chances of Acceptance?

No matter what major you’re considering, the first step is ensuring you’re academically comparable to students who were previously accepted to the college or university. Most selective schools use the Academic Index to filter out applicants who aren’t up to their standards.

You’ll also want to demonstrate your fit with the school and specific major with the qualitative components of your application, like your extracurriculars and essays. For a prospective creative writing major, the essay is particularly important because this is a way to demonstrate your writing prowess. Activities might include editing your school’s newspaper or literary journal, publishing your work, and participating in pre-college writing workshops.

Want to know your chances of being accepted to top creative writing schools? Try our Chancing Engine (it’s free). Unlike other calculators, it takes your individual profile into account, including academic stats and qualitative components like your activities. Give it a try and get a jumpstart on your journey as a creative writing major!

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ENCW 101. Creative Writing. 1 Credit.

Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3 Introduction to creative writing through the reading and writing of poetry and prose (fiction or creative nonfiction). Does not count toward the creative writing concentration or minor. Prerequisite: seniors by permission of the instructor.

ENCW 102. Writing Fiction. 1 Credit.

Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:3 In this introductory fiction workshop, students will read and discuss contemporary and classic texts with a writer’s eye. Completing fiction exercises and revisions as well as responding to one another’s work, they will use the techniques and habits of successful writers to enhance their own writing and creativity.

ENCW 104. Creative Writing: Poetry. 1 Credit.

Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:3 In this introductory course in writing poetry, students will read and discuss poems with a writer’s eye. Completing poetry exercises and revisions as well as responding to one another’s work, they will build their own skills and expand their ideas of what poems can do.

ENCW 1NT. Creative Writing Non-traditional Study. .5-1 Credits.

Offered Fall, Spring, Summer; Lecture hours:Varies,Other:Varies Non-traditional study in English. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.

ENCW 202. Fiction Workshop. 1 Credit.

Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3 Principles of writing fiction, with constant practice. Designed for students planning to concentrate or minor in creative writing. Preference given to juniors, sophomores, and first-year students. Prerequisite: seniors by permission of the instructor.

ENCW 203. Creative Nonfiction Workshop. 1 Credit.

Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3 Theory and practice of creative nonfiction, including travel writing, memoir, and other forms. Designed for students planning to concentrate or minor in creative writing. Preference given to juniors, sophomores, and first-year students. Prerequisite: seniors by permission of the instructor.

ENCW 204. Poetry Workshop. 1 Credit.

Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3 Principles of writing poetry, with constant practice. Designed for students planning to concentrate or minor in creative writing. Preference given to juniors, sophomores, and first-year students. Prerequisite: seniors by permission of the instructor.

ENCW 205. Screenwriting Workshop. 1 Credit.

Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:3 Principles of screenwriting with constant practice. Designed for students interested in creative writing or Film/Media Studies.

ENCW 210. Special Topic in Creative Writing. 1 Credit.

Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3; Repeatable Studies in such topics as prosody, stylistics, characterization, or narrative theory. Course emphasizes formal or structural elements within particular genres and an appreciation of craft from a writer's perspective. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.

ENCW 211. Topics: Writing Foreign Places. 1 Credit.

Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:3 This course in the reading and writing of personal narrative and lyric essays about foreign places is designed for students interested in writing out of experiences of travel and/or other kinds of cultural displacement. Each student will define "foreign" in relation to him or herself.

ENCW 212. Literary Arts Administration and Editing. 1 Credit.

Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3 Focused on literary arts administration and editing, this course is particularly useful for students interested in careers in the world of arts administration and/or publishing. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.

ENCW 220. Comedy and Satire Workshop. 1 Credit.

Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:3 Students will explore satire and humor in fiction through the work of comic writers, including Kurt Vonnegut, George Saunders, and Donald Barthelme. The focus will be on analyzing craft (i.e. hyperbole, understatement, the surreal) and on employing these elements in exercises, stories, and class workshops.

ENCW 221. Topics: Short Short Fiction. 1 Credit.

Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:3 Developing a sense of the foundational elements of short form fiction through reading and discussion of a variety of American and international writers, students will challenge conventions as they draft their own short form fiction and respond to one another’s work.

ENCW 222. Topics: Writing Culture in Fiction. 1 Credit.

Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:3 Students will be able to produce fictional work dealing with various aspects of their own culture, and with various aspects of cultures outside of their own, both with an eye to social consequence. Questions that will be considered: What constitutes a culture? What are its different manifestations in life?.

ENCW 230. Topics: Writing Nature. 1 Credit.

Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3 This creative writing “form and theory” course explores writing about nature in several traditions with attention to the ways in which nature is inscribed in language and expressed by literary forms. It examines critical moments in the evolution of cultural awareness of nature in the West. Prerequisite: permission of instructor.

ENCW 231. Environmental Writing. 1 Credit.

Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3 This is a course in creative nonfiction focused on writing about the environment. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.

ENCW 232. Topics: Literary Journalism. 1 Credit.

Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3 Literary journalists engage the world via fact-based methods including interview, research, and first-hand observation. Using unique personal perspectives, they write in-depth, non-fiction stories employing both narrative and essayistic techniques. Students should aim to write with immediacy via vivid storytelling, while also placing events and experiences within broader cultural contexts.

ENCW 237. Internship. 1 Credit.

Offered Both Fall and Spring; Lecture hours:Varies,Other:4; Repeatable Two competitive internships are offered: Stadler Center Internship provides practical experience in and insight into arts management; West Branch Internship provides practical experience in and insight into literary publishing. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.

ENCW 240. Ecopoetics. 1 Credit.

Offered Spring Semester Only; Lecture hours:3 An exploration of poetry as site-specific ecological practice. Intended for students interested in both Creative Writing and Environmental Studies. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor. Crosslisted as ENST 227 .

ENCW 241. Topics: Poetry, Mind, Nature. 1 Credit.

Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:3 In the reading and writing of poetry that observes the natural world explores the relationship between such poetry and the human imagination. The course involves workshops as well as fieldwork, which provides material for poems and increases students' ability to identify local flora and fauna. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.

ENCW 242. Long Poems & Sequences Workshop. 1 Credit.

Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:3 Students will read and discuss a variety of long poems and poetic sequences as a way of exploring various structures and subjects for the two long poems or sequences they will write and workshop over the course of the semester. Some degree of comfort with poetic process is expected.

ENCW 250. The Writing World. .5 Credits.

Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:1.5; Repeatable Students will discover and engage with the Creative Writing community at Bucknell (as well as with the greater writing community) through a community- and career-focused sequence of practical assignments, culminating in a group project in which students will identify a local need and design an event to address it.

ENCW 2NT. Creative Writing Non-traditional Study. 1 Credit.

Offered Fall, Spring, Summer; Lecture hours:Varies,Other:3; Repeatable Non-traditional study in Creative Writing. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.

ENCW 302. Advanced Fiction Workshop. 1 Credit.

Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3; Repeatable Advanced workshop in the writing of fiction. Prerequisites: Any 200-level Creative Writing (ENCW) course in creative nonfiction or fiction and permission of the instructor. Crosslisted as ENCW 602.

ENCW 303. Advanced Creative Nonfiction Workshop. 1 Credit.

Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3; Repeatable Advanced workshop in the writing of creative nonfiction. Prerequisites: Any 200-level Creative Writing (ENCW) course in creative nonfiction or fiction and permission of the instructor. Crosslisted as ENCW 603.

ENCW 304. Advanced Poetry Workshop. 1 Credit.

Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3; Repeatable Advanced workshop in the writing of poetry. Prerequisites: Any 200-level Creative Writing (ENCW) course in poetry and permission of the instructor. Crosslisted as ENCW 608.

ENCW 319. Individual Projects in Creative Writing. .5-1 Credits.

Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:Varies,Other:Varies; Repeatable Individual special projects supervised by instructor; honors thesis. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.

ENCW 323. Writing the Novel. 1 Credit.

Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3; Repeatable Students will produce the first draft of a novel or section thereof. The first half of the semester will emphasize composition; the second, revision. Students will read a variety of novels and speak with authors. Prerequisite: any 200-level ENCW course in creative nonfiction or fiction and permission of the instructor.

ENCW 379. Senior Thesis. 1 Credit.

Offered Spring Semester Only; Lecture hours:Varies,Other:3; Repeatable The writing of a scholarly or creative departmental senior thesis. Students must confer with and submit a proposal to an adviser prior to registering for the thesis. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.

ENCW 380. Honors Thesis. 1 Credit.

Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:Varies,Other:3; Repeatable The writing of a scholarly or creative honors thesis. Students must confer with and submit a proposal to a departmental adviser and to the University Honors Council for approval. Prerequisites: senior status and permission of the instructor.

ENCW 391. Seminar in Poetry. 1 Credit.

Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3; Repeatable A study of poetry as a genre and an analysis of the work of selected poets. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.

ENCW 3NT. Creative Writing Non-traditional Study. 1-1.5 Credits.

Offered Fall, Spring, Summer; Lecture hours:Varies,Other:Varies Non-traditional study in Creative Writing. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.

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ucknell offers students of Russian an opportunity to practice what they learn in class through either a semester's or summer's study in Moscow or St. Petersburg. Currently Bucknell accepts credit from four programs, all of them excellent, but each with its individual strengths. Before selecting one of these programs, students consult with the Russian Program faculty on which one is best suited for his or her needs. Normally, students spend a semester of their junior year in Russia.

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