Creative Writing Programs
Write your story with us
No matter where you are in your writing career
As the only university in the United States with three fine arts programs in creative writing, Hamline has a long history of turning writers into published authors. Learn from faculty members that include recent Newbery Medal winners, a National Book Award finalist, and more. Whether you’re a high school student spending the summer learning the ropes of a writing workshop or a graduate student looking to elevate your creative life, we’ll help you share your words with the world.
Literary journals, blog, and partnerships
Runestone
Runestone is an online undergraduate literary journal that provides mentorship and hands-on experience for student editors as they publish and promote the nation’s finest undergraduate writers in an online forum. Graduate students serve as associate editors, while undergraduates make up the student editorial board.
Water~Stone Review
Founded in 1998, Water~Stone Review has earned a place in the literary marketplace as a magazine of high literary and design quality, staffed by graduate assistants. The review publishes work in all genres by writers at all stages of their careers. It also publishes essay reviews and writers’ interviews.
Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop
Hamline graduate students can work with the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop, a program that brings creative writing classes, mentoring, and literary programming to incarcerated people in Minnesota’s state prisons.
More about the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop
Visiting Writer Series
Our yearly Visiting Writer series brings some of the best writers from around the country to the Creative Writing Programs to teach and talk with our students. In the past, we've been visited by Percival Everett, Junot Diaz, Patricia Smith, John D'Agata, Nick Flynn, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Rick Moody, Benjamin Percy, Brenda Miller, Ralph Angel, Terry Tempest Williams, Martin Espada, Susan Antonetta, Carol Muske Dukes, Frederick Busch, Mary Ruefle, William Gay, Jewell Parker Rhodes, Elizabeth Alexander, Marilyn Chin, Susan Straight, Leslie Scalopino, Rosellen Brown, Scott Russell Sanders, Bernard Cooper, Li-Young Li, Michael Torres, Chris Santiago, Victoria Blanco, Dantiel Moniz and more!
Creative Writing Events and Information Sessions
MFA in Creative Writing Information Sessions
Publishing and other news
Our students, faculty, and alumni are always publishing. Follow us on our social channels and keep up with our amazing community of writers.
Contact information
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The Creative Writing Programs
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