- <a href="/live/image/gid/4/width/650/94357_20220304-_Creative_Writing_Event_-06.jpg" class="lw_preview_image lw_disable_preview" tabindex="-1"><picture class="lw_image lw_image94357"> <source type="image/jpeg" media="(max-width: 500px)" srcset="/live/image/gid/4/width/500/height/479/crop/1/94357_20220304-_Creative_Writing_Event_-06.rev.1652817977.jpg 1x, /live/image/scale/2x/gid/4/width/500/height/479/crop/1/94357_20220304-_Creative_Writing_Event_-06.rev.1652817977.jpg 2x, /live/image/scale/3x/gid/4/width/500/height/479/crop/1/94357_20220304-_Creative_Writing_Event_-06.rev.1652817977.jpg 3x"/> <source type="image/jpeg" media="(min-width: 501px)" srcset="/live/image/gid/4/width/720/height/690/crop/1/94357_20220304-_Creative_Writing_Event_-06.rev.1652817977.jpg 1x, /live/image/scale/2x/gid/4/width/720/height/690/crop/1/94357_20220304-_Creative_Writing_Event_-06.rev.1652817977.jpg 2x"/> <img src="/live/image/gid/4/width/720/height/690/crop/1/94357_20220304-_Creative_Writing_Event_-06.rev.1652817977.jpg" alt="Creative writing reading at an Arts@LC First Friday event in Watzek Library. Photo by Nadav Ben-David BA '25." width="720" height="690" srcset="/live/image/scale/2x/gid/4/width/720/height/690/crop/1/94357_20220304-_Creative_Writing_Event_-06.rev.1652817977.jpg 2x" data-max-w="2138" data-max-h="2136" loading="lazy"/> </picture> </a><div class="hero-split_image_caption collapsable-caption"> Creative writing reading at an <a href="/fine-arts/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Arts@LC</a> First Friday event in Watzek Library. Photo by Nadav Ben-David BA ’25.</div>
- <a href="/live/image/gid/4/width/650/93288_PEO-C1a-0421-0008.jpg" class="lw_preview_image lw_disable_preview" tabindex="-1"><picture class="lw_image lw_image93288"> <source type="image/jpeg" media="(max-width: 500px)" srcset="/live/image/gid/4/width/500/height/479/crop/1/93288_PEO-C1a-0421-0008.rev.1647385694.jpg 1x, /live/image/scale/2x/gid/4/width/500/height/479/crop/1/93288_PEO-C1a-0421-0008.rev.1647385694.jpg 2x, /live/image/scale/3x/gid/4/width/500/height/479/crop/1/93288_PEO-C1a-0421-0008.rev.1647385694.jpg 3x"/> <source type="image/jpeg" media="(min-width: 501px)" srcset="/live/image/gid/4/width/720/height/690/crop/1/93288_PEO-C1a-0421-0008.rev.1647385694.jpg 1x, /live/image/scale/2x/gid/4/width/720/height/690/crop/1/93288_PEO-C1a-0421-0008.rev.1647385694.jpg 2x, /live/image/scale/3x/gid/4/width/720/height/690/crop/1/93288_PEO-C1a-0421-0008.rev.1647385694.jpg 3x"/> <img src="/live/image/gid/4/width/720/height/690/crop/1/93288_PEO-C1a-0421-0008.rev.1647385694.jpg" alt="When your campus is this pretty, it's easy to find inspiration for your creative writing!" width="720" height="690" srcset="/live/image/scale/2x/gid/4/width/720/height/690/crop/1/93288_PEO-C1a-0421-0008.rev.1647385694.jpg 2x, /live/image/scale/3x/gid/4/width/720/height/690/crop/1/93288_PEO-C1a-0421-0008.rev.1647385694.jpg 3x" data-max-w="3200" data-max-h="2136" loading="lazy"/> </picture> </a><div class="hero-split_image_caption collapsable-caption"> When your campus is this pretty, it’s easy to find inspiration for your creative writing!</div>
- <a href="/live/image/gid/4/width/650/93281_PlaywritingFest21_Facetune-051221-36_bySkylarVayda.JPG" class="lw_preview_image lw_disable_preview" tabindex="-1"><picture class="lw_image lw_image93281"> <source type="image/webp" media="(max-width: 500px)" srcset="/live/image/gid/4/width/500/height/479/crop/1/93281_PlaywritingFest21_Facetune-051221-36_bySkylarVayda.rev.1647375530.JPG 1x, /live/image/scale/2x/gid/4/width/500/height/479/crop/1/93281_PlaywritingFest21_Facetune-051221-36_bySkylarVayda.rev.1647375530.JPG 2x, /live/image/scale/3x/gid/4/width/500/height/479/crop/1/93281_PlaywritingFest21_Facetune-051221-36_bySkylarVayda.rev.1647375530.JPG 3x"/> <source type="image/webp" media="(min-width: 501px)" srcset="/live/image/gid/4/width/720/height/690/crop/1/93281_PlaywritingFest21_Facetune-051221-36_bySkylarVayda.rev.1647375530.JPG 1x, /live/image/scale/2x/gid/4/width/720/height/690/crop/1/93281_PlaywritingFest21_Facetune-051221-36_bySkylarVayda.rev.1647375530.JPG 2x, /live/image/scale/3x/gid/4/width/720/height/690/crop/1/93281_PlaywritingFest21_Facetune-051221-36_bySkylarVayda.rev.1647375530.JPG 3x"/> <source type="image/jpeg" media="(max-width: 500px)" srcset="/live/image/gid/4/width/500/height/479/crop/1/93281_PlaywritingFest21_Facetune-051221-36_bySkylarVayda.rev.1647375530.JPG 1x, /live/image/scale/2x/gid/4/width/500/height/479/crop/1/93281_PlaywritingFest21_Facetune-051221-36_bySkylarVayda.rev.1647375530.JPG 2x, /live/image/scale/3x/gid/4/width/500/height/479/crop/1/93281_PlaywritingFest21_Facetune-051221-36_bySkylarVayda.rev.1647375530.JPG 3x"/> <source type="image/jpeg" media="(min-width: 501px)" srcset="/live/image/gid/4/width/720/height/690/crop/1/93281_PlaywritingFest21_Facetune-051221-36_bySkylarVayda.rev.1647375530.JPG 1x, /live/image/scale/2x/gid/4/width/720/height/690/crop/1/93281_PlaywritingFest21_Facetune-051221-36_bySkylarVayda.rev.1647375530.JPG 2x, /live/image/scale/3x/gid/4/width/720/height/690/crop/1/93281_PlaywritingFest21_Facetune-051221-36_bySkylarVayda.rev.1647375530.JPG 3x"/> <img src="/live/image/gid/4/width/720/height/690/crop/1/93281_PlaywritingFest21_Facetune-051221-36_bySkylarVayda.rev.1647375530.JPG" alt="Students participating in the Playwriting Fest 2021. Photo by Skylar Vayda BA '24." width="720" height="690" srcset="/live/image/scale/2x/gid/4/width/720/height/690/crop/1/93281_PlaywritingFest21_Facetune-051221-36_bySkylarVayda.rev.1647375530.JPG 2x, /live/image/scale/3x/gid/4/width/720/height/690/crop/1/93281_PlaywritingFest21_Facetune-051221-36_bySkylarVayda.rev.1647375530.JPG 3x" data-max-w="3200" data-max-h="2400" loading="lazy"/> </picture> </a><div class="hero-split_image_caption collapsable-caption"> Students participating in the Playwriting Fest 2021. Photo by Skylar Vayda BA ’24.</div>
Creative Writing
We are one of the longest-standing creative writing programs in America, with faculty that is recognized for excellence in teaching and students from all academic disciplines.
We have one of the longest-standing creative writing programs in America—over 50 years old. We ask our creative writing students to consider these questions: What is a literary heritage, both here in America and around the globe? What is the poem today? The short story? The personal essay? Where will the future of creative writing take us? While creative writers often major in English, our students also come from majors as varied as art, biology, psychology, and music. Our faculty members have been recognized for excellence in teaching and have won some of the country’s most prestigious writing awards. We invite you to see if you agree, with Flaubert, that “the art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.”
“Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.”
William Butler Yeats
Explore all of our conservatory-caliber fine arts offerings and the ways you can enhance your artistic passions, no matter your major. Arts@LC
Creative writing has been a great departure from other classes because I really get to express myself to the fullest. The liberal arts allows students to be more than just whatever major or minor they have chosen. It means math majors transforming the creative writing program, and English majors taking Organic Chemistry. Creative writing has always been a source of joy in my life. Both of my majors (theatre and English) are based in stories, so learning how to write a good story will contribute well to the academic disciplines I’m invested in.
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English is located in Miller Center on the Undergraduate Campus.
MSC: 58
email english@lclark.edu
voice 503-768-7405
fax 503-768-7418
Chair Kristin Fujie
Administrative Coordinator Amy Baskin
English
Lewis & Clark
615 S. Palatine Hill Road MSC 58
Portland OR 97219