Program Description
The Lilly Lieb Port creative writing program is a highly selective and structured BA program that shares features of the arts programs at Purchase College. This major offers motivated, talented, and committed students a dynamic context and com-munity in which to explore all aspects of creative writing. As an integral part of the program, readings are held each semester by students, faculty, alumni who have published their writing, and professional writers. Editors and other members of the publishing world are also invited to speak and share their expertise with students.
Applicants may be either prospective first-year students or transfer students. All applicants must submit a portfolio containing:
Requirements for the Major
Representative Electives
Advanced Seminars in Fiction and Poetry Writing
Alternate Worlds
Constructing Truths: The Personal Essay
Editing and Production Workshop
The Importance of Tone in Constructing a Poem
The Screenplay
Travel Writing
Writing and Reading the Region
Writing Women: Women Fiction Writers of the 20th and 21st Centuries
Representative Writers-in-Residence and Guest Speakers
Edward Albee
Michael Cunningham
E.J. Garcia
Hettie Jones
Jamaica Kincaid
Sheila Kohler
Tony Kushner
Jhumpa Lahiri
Marni Ludwig
Rick Moody
Marjane Satrapi
Art Spiegelman
Craig Morgan Teicher
Cecilia Vicuña
Derek Walcott
Tom Wolfe
Representative Alumni
For more information, please visit the creative writing program site.
Updated Dec. 12, 2012
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