Creative Writing
Administrative Information
Director of Undergraduate Studies: Prof. Sam Lipsyte, 612 Lewisohn Hall; 854-3765; sam.lipsyte@columbia.edu
Executive Committee on Undergraduate Creative Writing
Prof. Sam Lipsyte, Writing Division, School of the Arts, 415 Dodge; 854-3765; sam.lipsyte@columbia.edu
Prof. Ben Marcus (chair), Writing Division, School of the Arts, 415 Dodge; 854-4391; bm415@columbia.edu
Prof. Alan Ziegler, Writing Division, School of the Arts, 415
Dodge; 854-4391; az8@columbia.edu
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The Creative Writing Program combines intensive writing workshops with seminars that study literature from a writer’s perspective. While students develop and hone their literary technique in workshops, the creative writing seminars (which explore literary technique as well as history) broaden their sense of possibility by exposing them to the various ways, historically, that language has been used to make art.
As a supplement to the workshops and seminars, related courses for the major can be drawn from departments such as English, Comparative Literature and Society, Philosophy, History, and Anthropology, among others.
The major in creative writing is by application only. Please see the Creative Writing Program Web site for details.