Creative Writing Currently

Creative Writing Currently is a guest blog series where AWP member academic programs share exciting news and updates about their students, faculty, and alumni. Posts can be written by program directors, faculty, students—anyone associated with the creative writing program! Below is a list of all our CWC posts to date, where you can read about all the wonderful things these programs are up to!

We publish one post per month during the academic school year on a first-come, first-served basis. If your member academic program would like to contribute an 800-word write-up and photos, please reach out to Miranda González at [email protected] with your idea and your preferred month of publication.

  

In Community, Not Competition: Solstice MFA at Twenty

Posted on 5/1/2026
Ryan Thomas LaBee
Two decades after its founding, the Solstice MFA continues to challenge the competitive model of most graduate writing programs.

  

Morris Brown College Poetry Club Supports HBCU Students’ Mental Health

Posted on 4/1/2026
Dr. Mack Curry IV
Morris Brown College Poetry Club student officers Olivia Wright, Donahvan Jones, and Zenobia Coltrane

  

Relaunching Chatham University’s Low-Residency MFA Program

Posted on 3/2/2026
Chatham University Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing
Chatham University in Pittsburgh, whose low-residency MFA program, established in 2009 and deactivated in the fall of 2023, is once again open for applications.

  

A Zoom of Our Own

Posted on 2/1/2026
Colleen Alles
The lives of writers have long been romanticized by the rest of the world. Hemingway in a Parisian café. Austen at her desk in the sitting room. My life, I think, doesn’t lend to glamorization…

  

New Avenues in Narrative Medicine Through Dominican University’s MFA

Posted on 12/1/2025
Ma’ayan Simon
In the spring of 2023, I unexpectedly found myself driving back and forth from my home in Sebastopol, California, to San Rafael, where one of my younger brothers was being hospitalized nearby. Each time I took the hospital freeway exit, signs…