Untitled Document

Please let us know about your publications so we can share them with the creative writing community on our website. Email news to John Kessel.

Creative writing at NC State University began in the 1960s through the inspired teaching and work of novelist Guy Owen, who brought the Southern Poetry Review to the campus and, with journalist Sam Regan, held popular workshops for students and the community. After Professor Owen's death, Lee Smith became the university's first Guy Owen writer-in-residence in 1982. In fall 2000, John Balaban, twice a nominee for the National Book Award in poetry, joined a large and productive creative-writing faculty as poet-in-residence. The MFA is now in its third year. This fall, the faculty is proud to announce that Jill McCorkle will come on board as writer-in-residence.

NC State is located in Raleigh, the capital of North Carolina and home to a remarkably diverse and energetic community of writers and publishers, who provide a stimulating creative environment for the university.

In addition to its MFA and master's in English option, the NC State English Department offers three levels of undergraduate creative writing workshops, a creative writing concentration within the English major, and a minor in creative writing. North Carolina residents can take both graduate and undergraduate workshops through lifelong education registration (and permission of instructors upon review of writing samples).




				NEWS Summer Workshop in Prague, Czech Republic A two-week creative writing workshop at the NC State Prague campus, specializing in writing Magic realist fiction. NCSU offers an MFA in Creative Writing. Applications are being accepted for Fall 2007 admission (deadline April 1, 2007). Minor in Creative Writing now available. Concentration in creative writing now available for undergraduate English majors. ALUMNI NEWS Please let us know about your publications so we can share them with the creative writing community on our website. Email news to John Kessel. FACULTY NEWS Poet-in-Residence Balaban Wins Guggenheim Fellowship John Kessel Wins James Tiptree Jr. Memorial Award for Science Fiction Novella That Explores Gender Roles Recent Faculty Publications and Upcoming Appearances ABOUT OUR PROGRAM Creative writing at NC State University began in the 1960s through the inspired teaching and work of novelist Guy Owen, who brought the Southern Poetry Review to the campus and, with journalist Sam Regan, held popular workshops for students and the community. After Professor Owen's death, Lee Smith became the university's first Guy Owen writer-in-residence in 1982. In fall 2000, John Balaban, twice a nominee for the National Book Award in poetry, joined a large and productive creative-writing faculty as poet-in-residence. The MFA is now in its third year. This fall, the faculty is proud to announce that Jill McCorkle will come on board as writer-in-residence. NC State is located in Raleigh, the capital of North Carolina and home to a remarkably diverse and energetic community of writers and publishers, who provide a stimulating creative environment for the university. In addition to its MFA and master's in English option, the NC State English Department offers three levels of undergraduate creative writing workshops, a creative writing concentration within the English major, and a minor in creative writing. North Carolina residents can take both graduate and undergraduate workshops through lifelong education registration (and permission of instructors upon review of writing samples).