Creative Writing

2026-2027

51 courses

CRWR 10206Fiction Workshop I
CRWR 10306Poetry Workshop I
CRWR 10406Literary Nonfiction Workshop I
CRWR 12112Reading as a Writer: Chicago "City on the Remake"
CRWR 12136Reading as a Writer: Adaptation as Form
CRWR 12138Intro to Genres: Evil Incarnate
CRWR 12147Intro to Genres: The River's Running Course
CRWR 12150Intro to Genres: Writing for TV: The Writers' Room
CRWR 12151Intro to Genres: The Gothic Lens
CRWR 12159Reading as a Writer: The Bad Girls Club
CRWR 12165Intro to Genres: Short Form Screenwriting
CRWR 12170Reading as a Writer: Literary Tyrants
CRWR 12171Intro to Genres: True Crime Fiction
CRWR 12180Reading as a Writer: Losers
CRWR 12181Intro to Genres: Graphic Design
CRWR 12182Intro to Genres: Parody
CRWR 12183Intro to Genres: The Grammars of Narrative
CRWR 14700Creative Writing
CRWR 17020Family Sagas: Women's Writing from Africa and the African Diaspora
CRWR 20203Creative Writing Studio: Research and World-Building in Fiction
CRWR 20217Creative Writing Studio: Elements of Style
CRWR 20232Creative Writing Studio: Narrative Influence
CRWR 20240Creative Writing Studio: Crafting Historical Fiction
CRWR 20241Creative Writing Studio: Internet Literature
CRWR 20242Creative Writing Studio: The Comic Muse: Humor in Poetry
CRWR 20243Creative Writing Studio: Image + Text
CRWR 20244Creative Writing Studio: Writing About the Arts
CRWR 20245Creative Writing Studio: Poetics of Permeability and Fluidity
CRWR 20246Creative Writing Studio: Sublime, Beauty, & Horror
CRWR 20247Creative Writing Studio: Didion's California
CRWR 20248Creative Writing Studio: Creative Research (or, The Numinous Particulars)
CRWR 20249Creative Writing Studio: How to Build a Literary Ecosystem from Scratch
CRWR 20250Means of Production I: Contemporary Literary Publishing (Books)
CRWR 22113Fiction Workshop II: The Love Story
CRWR 22128Fiction Workshop II: Novel Writing, The First Chapters
CRWR 22132Fiction Workshop II: Strange Magic in Short Fiction
CRWR 22135Fiction Workshop II: Narrative Time
CRWR 22142Fiction Workshop II: The Fantastical
CRWR 22156Fiction Workshop II: The Narrative Personality
CRWR 23145Poetry Workshop II: The Sonnet Sequence
CRWR 24016Literary Nonfiction Workshop II: Other People's Stories
CRWR 24030Literary Nonfiction Workshop II: Writing the Narrative Nonfiction Feature
CRWR 24031Literary Nonfiction Workshop II: Excavating the Self
CRWR 24034Literary Nonfiction Workshop II: Writing Chicago
CRWR 24036Literary Nonfiction Workshop II: The Confessional Essay
CRWR 26342Scores and Graphic Performance
CRWR 26343Critical Worldbuilding
CRWR 27250Sensing the Anthropocene
CRWR 29200Thesis Workshop: Fiction
CRWR 29300Thesis Workshop: Poetry
CRWR 29400Thesis Workshop: Literary Nonfiction