Creative Writing

Featured events from our world-renowned Creative Writing Program, including readings and lectures from Stegner and Jones fellows, and guest speakers.
Past Events
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Part of the Lane Lecture Series
Reading with first year Stegner Fellows in Poetry and Fiction, Taneum Bambrick and Jamel Brinkley.
Mantis, the Department of Comparative Literature, the DLCL, Stanford Arts Institute and the English Department invite you to a poetry reading with the award-winning poet and essayist Anne…
Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of about eighteen books on environment, landscape, representation, disaster, politics, hope, and feminism, including a trilogy of…
The McCoy Center for Ethics and Society, in partnership with the Creative Writing Program, is pleased to present the explosive linguistic talent and boundary blurring short story writer and…
Join us for an evening with best-selling author and Oxford University Professor of African Studies…
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Part of the Lane Lecture Series
Ron Carlson’s most recent novel is Return to Oakpine.
Louise Glück is one of America’s most honored contemporary poets.
Claire Messud’s five novels include The Emperor’s Children, a New York Times Book of the Year in 2006; The Woman Upstairs (2013); and, most recently, The Burning Girl (…