• The NYU Creative Writing Program

    is among the most distinguished programs in the country and is a leading national center for the study of writing and literature.

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  • Graduate Program

    The graduate Creative Writing Program at NYU consists of a community of writers working together in a setting that is both challenging and supportive.

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  • Low Residency MFA Workshop in Paris

    The low-residency MFA Writers Workshop offers students the opportunity to develop their craft in one of the world's most inspiring literary capitals.

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  • Undergraduate Program

    The undergraduate program offers workshops, readings, internships, writing prizes, and events designed to cultivate and inspire.

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  • Jeffrey Eugenides Joins CWP Faculty

    We’re proud and delighted to announce that Jeffrey Eugenides will be joining our faculty in September 2018 as a tenured full professor.

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Creative Writing Program

Announcements

Aug. 02, 2018

Jeffrey Eugenides joins the NYU Creative Writing Program Faculty
Sep. 05, 2017

Tyehimba Jess wins the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Jun. 28, 2017

NYU Creative Writing Program profiled in the New York Times

Classic Podcasts from the Lillian Vernon Reading Series

Feb. 02, 2017

Anne Carson
Feb. 23, 2017

Martin Amis
Jun. 28, 2017

Terrance Hayes

Faculty Spotlight

Jonathan Safran Foer

Foer was listed in Rolling Stone's "People of the Year," Esquire's "Best and Brightest," and The New Yorker's "20 Under 40" list.

Terrance Hayes

Terrance Hayes' most recent book, How to Be Drawn, was a finalist for the 2015 National Book Award and the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award.

Joyce Carol Oates

Oates is the recipient the the Chicago Tribune Lifetime Achievement Award, The Norman Mailer Prize for Lifetime Achievement, and many more awards.

Anne Carson

Carson's honors include the Lannan Award, the Pushcart Prize, a Guggenheim fellowship, and a MacArthur Fellowship, among many others.

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