Binghamton University
New York, United States
Residential programThe creative writing program at Binghamton University is designed to foster in its students a powerful,disciplined and skilled creativity cultivated in a supportive environment.Through its dedicated faculty, students are introduced to all facets of their art — its traditions and masters, its pleasures and responsibilities, its materials and practices.
At the graduate level our program offers:
a MA in English with a concentration in creative writing
a PhD with a concentration in creative writing and a creative dissertation option.
At the undergraduate level, our program offers
· a BA in English with a specialization in creative writing
The areas of study include poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. The program relies on writing workshops and the study of literature to encourage the development of the students as writers. The program cultivates an active community of writers in many ways, including our Readers' Series, which brings writers to campus to read and to spend time with students in the class run in coordination with the series, and our Wrting Life series, which brings editors to campus to meet with and network with students.
Contact Information
PO Box 6000
English Dept.
Binghamton
New York, United States
13902-6000
Phone: 607-777-2327
Email: tchang@binghamton.edu
http://www.binghamton.edu/english/creative-writing/
The Department of English, General Literature and Rhetoric provides students the opportunity to study literature and language in their many manifestations. In addition to an English major, the department offers coursework in globalization and culture. Literature courses provide undergraduates with a foundation in literary history as well as an opportunity to explore a variety of genres, while fostering critical reading and research skills; courses in globalization and culture explore cultural and literary responses to the emergence of global culture and the questions raised by this process; creative writing courses hone students' writing abilities and develop their unique voices; rhetoric courses deal with both the theory and practice of communication, as well as the history of oral and written argument.
Genres: Fiction, Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, Writing for Children, Criticism & TheoryUnit of Measure: Hours
Composition Rhetoric: 48
The Creative Writing Program at Binghamton University is designed to foster in its students a powerful, disciplined and skilled creativity cultivated in a supportive environment. Through its dedicated faculty, students are introduced to all facets of their art — its traditions and masters, its pleasures and responsibilities, its materials and practices.
Students in the creative writing program at Binghamton University learn critical thinking and reading in a creative context. For students who are strong writers and interested in writing fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction, the chance to be part of a community of writers while working with our internationally recognized faculty is not just an opportunity to prepare for a career in a wide array of artistic and professional fields, it also develops an understanding of one's own voice and its place within the vital continuum of literature. Faculty currently teaching in the Creative Writing Program include: Tina Chang, Jaimee Wriston Colbert, Thomas Glave, Leslie Heywood, Liz Rosenberg, Joe Weil, and Alexi Zentner.
At the undergraduate level, our program offers a BA in English with a specialization in creative writing. The areas of study include poetry, fiction, non-fiction, memoir and children's literature. The program relies on writing workshops and the study of literature to encourage the development of the students as writers.
Genres: Fiction, Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, Writing for ChildrenUnit of Measure: Hours
Graduate Program Director
Susan StrehleGraduate Director
PO Box 6000
English Department
Binghamton
New York, United States
13902-6000
Email: sstrehle@binghamton.edu
The Creative Writing Program at Binghamton University is designed to foster in its students a powerful, disciplined and skilled creativity cultivated in a supportive environment. Through its dedicated faculty, students are introduced to all facets of their art — its traditions and masters, its pleasures and responsibilities, its materials and practices.
Students in the creative writing program at Binghamton University learn critical thinking and reading in a creative context. For students who are strong writers and interested in writing fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction, the chance to be part of a community of writers while working with our internationally recognized faculty is not just an opportunity to prepare for a career in a wide array of artistic and professional fields, it also develops an understanding of one's own voice and its place within the vital continuum of literature. Faculty currently teaching in the Creative Writing Program include: Tina Chang, Jaimee Wriston Colbert, Thomas Glave, Leslie Heywood, Liz Rosenberg, Joe Weil, and Alexi Zentner.
At the undergraduate level, our program offers a BA in English with a specialization in creative writing. The areas of study include poetry, fiction, non-fiction, memoir and children's literature. The program relies on writing workshops and the study of literature to encourage the development of the students as writers.
At the graduate level, our program offers both an MA and PhD in English with a specialization in creative writing. MA students take courses in literature and writing and produce a creative thesis. PhD students take courses in literature and writing, complete the same field exams as literature students and produce creative work for their dissertations.
The Binghamton Center for Writers
The Binghamton Center for Writers is a State University of New York Organized Research Center associated with our Creative Writing Program. While academic courses are handled through the English Department, the Center for Writers cultivates an active community of writers through extracurricular offerings such as the Distinguished Writers series, Binghamton Poetry Project, Harpur Palate, Common Ground student reading series, Pedagogy Talks, Creative Writing Mentorship Program, Social Networks, faculty and alumni readings, student awards for creative writers, and other opportunities.
Type of Program: Research/Theory/StudioGenres: Fiction, Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, Writing for Children, Criticism & Theory
In State Tuition 6000
Out of State Tuition 12000
Unit of Measure: Hours
Workshop:
Literature:
Thesis:
Total Units for Degree:
Other Requirements:
Application Requirements: Transcripts, Writing Sample, Application Form, Letters of Recommendation, GRE, Other
Graduate Program Director
Susan StrehleGraduate Director
PO Box 6000
English Department
Binghamton
New York, United States
13902-6000
Email: sstrehle@binghamton.edu
The Creative Writing Program at Binghamton University is designed to foster in its students a powerful, disciplined and skilled creativity cultivated in a supportive environment. Through its dedicated faculty, students are introduced to all facets of their art — its traditions and masters, its pleasures and responsibilities, its materials and practices.
Students in the creative writing program at Binghamton University learn critical thinking and reading in a creative context. For students who are strong writers and interested in writing fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction, the chance to be part of a community of writers while working with our internationally recognized faculty is not just an opportunity to prepare for a career in a wide array of artistic and professional fields, it also develops an understanding of one's own voice and its place within the vital continuum of literature. Faculty currently teaching in the Creative Writing Program include: Tina Chang, Jaimee Wriston Colbert, Thomas Glave, Leslie Heywood, Liz Rosenberg, Joe Weil, and Alexi Zentner.
At the undergraduate level, our program offers a BA in English with a specialization in creative writing. The areas of study include poetry, fiction, non-fiction, memoir and children's literature. The program relies on writing workshops and the study of literature to encourage the development of the students as writers.
At the graduate level, our program offers both an MA and PhD in English with a specialization in creative writing. MA students take courses in literature and writing and produce a creative thesis. PhD students take courses in literature and writing, complete the same field exams as literature students and produce creative work for their dissertations.
The Binghamton Center for Writers
The Binghamton Center for Writers is a State University of New York Organized Research Center associated with our Creative Writing Program. While academic courses are handled through the English Department, the Center for Writers cultivates an active community of writers through extracurricular offerings such as the Distinguished Writers series, Binghamton Poetry Project, Harpur Palate, Common Ground student reading series, Pedagogy Talks, Creative Writing Mentorship Program, Social Networks, faculty and alumni readings, student awards for creative writers, and other opportunities.
Type of Program: Research/Theory/StudioGenres: Fiction, Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, Writing for Children
In State Tuition 12000
Out of State Tuition 22000
Duration of Study: 4 years
Unit of Measure: Credits
Workshop:
Literature:
Thesis:
Total Units for Degree:
Other Requirements:
Application Requirements: Transcripts, Writing Sample, Application Form, Letters of Recommendation, GRE, Other
Thomas Glave
Glave is author most recently of the essay collection Among the Bloodpeople: Politics and Flesh (Akashic Books, 2013), which has just been named a finalist for the 2014 Lambda Award in Nonfiction. His previous books include the short fiction collection Whose Song? and Other Stories (City Lights), nominated by the American Library Association for their Best Gay/Lesbian Book of the Year award and by the Quality Paperback Book Club for their Violet Quill/Best New Gay/Lesbian Fiction Award and the experimental/political essay collection, Words to Our Now: Imagination and Dissent (2005, University of Minnesota Press) which was awarded the Lambda Award in Nonfiction in 2006. His edited anthology, Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles, was published by Duke University Press in 2008, and received a Lambda Literary Award in 2009. The Torturer’s Wife, also nominated for a Lambda Literary Award, was published by City Lights at the end of 2008. The recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, including an O. Henry Prize for fiction and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fine Arts Center in Provincetown, Glave was named a Writer on the Verge by The Village Voice in 2000. A contributing and advisory editor for Callaloo, Glave serves on the board of directors of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS).
http://www2.binghamton.edu/english/faculty/glave-t.html
Jaimee Wriston Colbert
Jaimee Wriston Colbert is the author of Shark Girls (2009, Livingston Press) (link has an excerpt), which earned a starred review in Booklist and was a Finalist for the USABookNews Best Books of 2010, and a Finalist for ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year; a linked stories collection, Dream Lives of Butterflies (2007, BkMk Press), which won the gold medal (first place) in the 2008 Independent Publisher Awards in the Short Stories Fiction category, and was a Finalist in the USABookNews Best Books of 2007 Awards and the ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards; the novel, Climbing the God Tree (1998, Helicon Nine Editions), winner of the Willa Cather Fiction Prize, and the short stories collection Sex, Salvation, and the Automobile (1994, Zephyr), winner of the Zephyr Publishing Prize. The title story from her new collection "Things Blow Up" won the 2012 Ian MacMillan Fiction Award and was published in Hawai'i Review. Another story from her new collection won the 2008 Jane’s Stories National Short Story Award, and another was chosen for the 2009 Editors’ Fiction Prize in Isotope. The Gettysburg Review, 2012, published an excerpt from her new novella, Ghosts. Her stories have been nominated six times for the Pushcart Prize, and awarded Special Mention in the Pushcart Prize Anthology, 2011; twice selected as a finalist for the Katherine Anne Porter Prize and the Julia Peterkin Fiction Prize, and have been published in numerous journals, including: TriQuarterly, Prairie Schooner, Tampa Review, Connecticut Review, New Letters, Green Mountains Review, Snake Nation Review, Louisiana Literature, The Evolutionary Review, Solstice, Natural Bridge, The Paterson Review and Rosebud. Several stories have been broadcast on NPR's "Selected Shorts," and anthologized in: Ohio Short Fiction; Peculiar Pilgrims - Stories From the Left Hand of God; Water's Edge – Open to Interpretation, and Deep Waters (Outrider Press – Second Place Prize). Her stories have been presented at the Boston Fiction Festival and performed throughout Maine by PCA Great Performances. Excerpts from her fiction along with interviews can be listened to at various NPR affiliate radio station websites, and New Letters On The Air. Originally from Hawaii, she is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing.
Leslie Heywood
Lost Arts: Poems (Louisiana Literature Press, 2013)
Natural Selection: Poems for an Environmentalist Century (Louisiana Literature Press, 2008)
The Proving Grounds: Poems
Pretty Good For a Girl: A Sports Memoir
http://www2.binghamton.edu/english/faculty/heywood-l.html
Liz Rosenberg
Liz Rosenberg is the author of the novels THE MOONLIGHT PALACE and HOME REPAIR and she has published five collections of poetry, THE FIRE MUSIC (winner of the Agnes Starrett Prize); CHILDREN OF PARADISE, a collection of prose poems from Mammoth Press, THESE HAPPY EYES and, in 2008, both a chapbook called THE LILY POEMS from Bright Hill Press and a new full-length collection DEMON LOVE from Mammoth . Her poems and stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, Poetry, The American Poetry Review, Harper's, The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review and elsewhere, as well as in numerous anthologies. She has published over twenty five children's books, from picture books for the very young (including MONSTER MAMA, winner of a Children's Choice award) to poetry anthologies for young readers (including LIGHT GATHERING POEMS, winner of the Lee Bennet Hopkins Poetry Priize) and two young adult novels. She writes a review column for The Boston Globe.
http://www2.binghamton.edu/english/faculty/rosenberg-l.html
Alexi Zentner
Alexi Zentner is the author of the novels The Lobster Kings (forthcoming May 2014) and Touch. He is published in the United States by W. W. Norton & Company, and in Canada by Knopf Canada. Touch has been published or is forthcoming in a dozen countries and ten languages, and The Lobster Kings will be published in at least six counties and five languages. The CBC has named Alexi as one of 12 Writers to Watch - "the future of this country's literature" - and one of six "fresh voices" for 2011. Touch was named one of the "best books" of 2011 from The National Post, Kobo, and Amazon.ca, and singled out for year-end praise by The Globe & Mail. Touch was shortlisted for The 2011 Governor General's Literary Award, The Center for Fiction's 2011 Flahery-Dunnan First Novel Prize, the 2012 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, and the 2011 Amazon.ca First Novel Award, and longlisted for the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize, and the 2013 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
Alexi's fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in The Atlantic Monthly, Narrative Magazine, Tin House, Glimmer Train, The Southern Review, Guernica, The Walrus, and many other publications. He is the winner of both the O. Henry Prize (jury favorite) and the Narrative Prize, and has been shortlisted for the Best American Short Stories and the Pushcart Prize.
Joe E. Weil
Joseph Weil is an assistant professor who teaches poetry as well as fiction at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. Since 2008, four full length volumes of his poems have been published: What Remains (Night Shade, 2008) Painting the Christmas Trees (Texas Review Press), The Plumber's Apprentice (New York Quarterly books, 2009)), and most recently, The Great Grandmother Light, New and Selected (New York Quarterly books, 2013). Joseph Millar called The Great Grandmother Light, "a Fine, full blooded collection." The Toronto Quarterly featured The Great Grandmother Light in a full length interview with the author. The book was reviewed favorably in The American Reader, and is listed as one of the top 13 poetry collections of 2013 by the poet Sean Thomas Dougherty. Weil's poems, essays, reviews and stories appear or are forthcoming in The Paterson Literary review, MAGGY, Omnibus, The New Renaissance, The Saranac Review, Rattle, The Louisiana Review of Literature, Paddlefish, Best American Poems on line, the New York Times, and The Boston Review, among others. He has been featured on PBS' Fooling with Words with Bill Moyers, on NJPBS, in the Sunday section of the New York Times, and on Pacifica Radio. Weil also has the pleasure of having been quoted in the February 2009 issue of Notable quotes in the New Yorker. His work may be found in several anthologies, most recently Working Words by Coffee House press. He is fiction editor of Ragazine, former publisher/founder of Monk Books, current publisher of Cat in the Sun Press, and a frequent contributor to ThethePoetry.com, an international blog built by some of Weil's former students around his essays on poetry and literature.
Weil is a noted performer who has presented both poetry and music at such venues as the New Jersey State Performing Arts center, the Knitting Factory, the Detroit Opera house, the Walt Whitman Cultural Arts Center, Poets' House, the University of Pittsburgh, and at the Geraldine R. Dodge poetry festivals in 1992, 2002, and 2008. As a poet Weil has featured with Stephen Dunn, Allen Ginsberg, Gerald Stern, Louise Gluck, Wanda Coleman, Jan Beatty, and Patricia Smith. He has been nominated 10 times for the Pushcart, and is the 2013 winner of the Working People's Poetry Competition from Partisan Press for his poem, "The First Time I got Up Early." Weil has also won two NFAAA awards for outstanding teaching in the arts.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/foolingwithwords/main_weil.html
Tina Chang
Tina Chang is an American poet, teacher, and editor. In 2010, she was the first woman to be named Poet Laureate of Brooklyn and she continues to serve in this role. She is the author of three poetry collections: Hybrida (W. W. Norton, May 2019), Of Gods & Strangers (Four Way Books, 2011), and Half-Lit Houses (Four Way Books, 2004). Tina Chang received her MFA in poetry from Columbia University. She will serve as Director of Creative Writing at her alma mater, Binghamton University, beginning fall, 2020.
She is the co-editor of the seminal anthology Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond (W.W. Norton, 2008), which was hailed as, “One of the 10 greatest international anthologies, a timeless resource” by the Academy of American Poets, and was praised by the Financial Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post, Poets & Writers and many other periodicals. Of the anthology, poet Carolyn Forché said, “Read Language for a New Century as you would a field guide to the human condition in our time, a poetic survival manual.”
Chang’s own work has been published in The New York Times and Ploughshares among others, and has been featured in the anthologies Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation and Identity Lessons: Contemporary Writing About Learning to Be American (Penguin Books).
Born in Oklahoma to Chinese immigrants, Chang was a year old when the family moved to New York City; not long after she and her brother were sent to live in Taiwan with relatives for two years. “I started questioning even at a very young age, well, what is language?” she said. “What is the role of words?” In an interview given after 9-11, Chang said, “When pondering my identity as an American poet, it is more difficult than ever to place geographic restrictions on my influences and aesthetics…. Perhaps to acknowledge an American Poetry is to acknowledge the most human and fragile self living in and among a global community. The idea of the porous nature of boundaries (geographic, cultural, metaphoric) evades and invades my imagination. In short, I am not alone in the word.”
Amir Ahmadi Arian
Amir Ahmadi Arian started his writing career as a journalist in Iran in 2000. He has published two novels, a collection of stories, and a book of nonfiction in Persian. He also translated from English to Persian novels by E.L Doctorow, Paul Auster, P.D. James, and Cormac McCarthy.
Amir left Iran in 2011 to undertake a PhD in comparative literature at the University of Queensland, Australia.
Since 2014 he has been writing exclusively in English. In this phase of his career, he has published short stories and essays in The New York Times, New York Review of Books, Paris Review, LRB, Lithub, Massachusetts Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, etc.
Amir is currently living in New York City where he earned an MFA in the NYU Creative Writing Program as The Axinn Foundation/E.L. Doctorow Fellowship recipient of 2016 - 2018. Now he is teaching literature and creative writing at CUNY City College and Baruch College, New York.
His first novel in English, Then The Fish Swallowed Him, was published by HarperVia/HarperCollins in March 2020.
https://www.amirahmadiarian.com/
Claire Luchette
Claire Luchette is the author of Agatha of Little Neon and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree.
Claire's fiction and non-fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories, VQR, Ploughshares, The New York Times, Granta, Kenyon Review, Glimmer Train, Iowa Review, and Indiana Review. Their story "New Bees" won a 2020 Pushcart Prize.
Claire was the 2022-23 Rona Jaffe Fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. They've received grants and support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the.Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, MacDowell, Yaddo, the James Merrill House, the Elizabeth George Foundation, the Millay Colony, Lighthouse Works, John Carroll University, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
They studied at Brown University and the MFA program at the University of Oregon, and now they teach creative writing at Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York.
https://www.claireluchette.com/
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