{"id":674,"date":"2021-01-25T17:29:11","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T22:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/earlhamcollege.wpengine.com\/?page_id=674"},"modified":"2024-04-29T12:57:28","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T16:57:28","slug":"creative-writing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/earlham.edu\/academics\/majors-minors-programs\/creative-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Finding your own voice\u2014that\u2019s what the creative writing major at Earlham offers. You\u2019ll do substantial work in the creative genre(s) of your choice, including a major guided portfolio project as a senior, and explore how your and others\u2019 writing can make a positive difference in the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since good readers make good writers, you\u2019ll also engage with a wide variety of literary texts from different periods and voices, together with a wide range of theoretical approaches on how and why literature matters. You\u2019ll hone your craft as a writer, experiment with different writing techniques, and learn how to communicate with diverse audiences and engage the literary marketplace and publication process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Leah Naomi Green \u201905 won the prestigious Walt Whitman Award in 2019 from the Academy of American Poets, for her first book of poetry, The More Extravagant Feast.<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Earlham alums have earned MFAs at programs such as the University of California at Irvine, the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Columbia University, and CUNY\/ Queens College. Prize-winning alumni writers include Mat Johnson, Maurice Manning and Leah Naomi Green.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t

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