creative writing

<p>i am considering a transfer, and i was wondering, would swarthmore be a strong choice for creative writing? thankyou.</p>

<p>pinkearmufs, I could be wrong but the best places in the US for creative writing would be
1) IOWA Writer's Workshop.
2) Johns Hopkins Creative Writing Program.</p>

<p>I have no idea if Swarthmore is good in this regard or not. It very well might be...</p>

<p>Swathmore usually only offers one creative writing-related class each semester. These are the poetry workshop and the creative writing workshop, and you can only take each once. Though Swat is a good place to improve your academic writing, I don't think it would be a good choice if creative writing is what you really want to pursue in college.</p>

<p>Actually, there are quite few writing workshops.</p>

<p>Go to this link for the course catalog and scroll down to the 070 courses.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.swarthmore.edu/academics/course_catalog/english_literature.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.swarthmore.edu/academics/course_catalog/english_literature.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>The Poetry Workshop and the Fiction Workshop are the basic creative writing courses. The poetry workshop can be taken one; the fiction workshop twice.</p>

<p>However, scroll down a bit further for some advanced writing workshops and directed study workshops (basically one-on-one with a professor), which is the path you'd take if you were serious about creative writing.</p>

<p>This the kind of question that really should be addressed by the interested student contacting the English department and making his or her own determination. Any serious creative writing student will have to ultimately have an individually tailored program.</p>

<p>thanks a lot! i found another page too discussing the creative writing emphasis, which it says is relatively new. if anyone else is interested, <a href="http://www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/english/major.htm#creativewriting%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/english/major.htm#creativewriting&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Interestingly, Swarthmore's most successful fiction writer on campus these days may be Donna Jo Napoli, who is chair of the Linguistics department. She writes everything from picture books for kids to fiction for young teens.</p>

<p>Here's her amazon.com link, eight pages worth:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/912814/104-5533948-7916731%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/912814/104-5533948-7916731&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>She recently did a book tour of Iran after one of her children's books was translated into Farsi. Interesting account here:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.swarthmore.edu/news/iran/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.swarthmore.edu/news/iran/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>