Csf creative writing

The Creative Writing program at the College of Santa Fe was started by poet and novelist Greg Glazner and Jack Butler in 1988. Consisting of a single faculty member and seven majors at the time, it has since grown into one of the most notable undergraduate writing departments in the country. One of the few of its kind, the department, composed of widely-published and award-winning faculty, strives to combine the curriculum of an English major with the intensity of an MFA writing program.

Curriculum

Students, while working within the liberal arts core of the college, choose two of four tracks of writing areas to focus on; Fiction, Poetry, Creative Non-Fiction, and Screenwriting. The creative vibe of Santa Fe, combined with a rather substantial number of local writers, notably poet laureate Arthur Sze, Tony Hillerman and Cormac McCarthy, make the environment ideal for fledgling writers determined to find their own voice. A wide interdisciplinary course study accompanies the English and Workshop classes that encompass the degree. In these workshops, students evaluate their peer’s works and discuss them at length, often in conversations outside of the classroom.

First Print Reading Series
The First Print Reading Series, a series of public readings sponsored by the college, regularly hosts visits and readings with noted writers and poets on the event of a new publication. Recent visitors include Peter Orner, Kevin McIlvoy, Francisco Aragon and Carl Phillips, Robert Hass and Louise Gluck. These visitors deliver their readings either on the campus itself, or in one of the many nearby auditoriums and theatres. The award-winning faculty read a substantial amount of their work on the campus as well, generally from their forthcoming works.

Student Run Publications

In addition to this, the college funds several annual student-run publications, chiefly Glyph, the literary magazine containing the best work of the student writers. The Independent, also student-run, is a news periodical offering cultural criticism. Students have also commenced many literary events of their own; the Student Writers Association regularly schedules Open Mics, where students come and read aloud their own work.

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