Creative Writing

Department of English

Department of Journalism

As a Specialization

Baruch undergraduates with a passion for creative writing can chose to major in Journalism & Creative Writing, a unique specialization housed in the newly established Department of Journalism and the Writing Professions. This specialization encourages talented writers to find their own voices through hands-on workshops in fiction, poetry, drama, and film writing. Students share their original work (short stories, poems, scenes, memoirs, first person essays) in a positive and supportive environment, benefiting from class discussion and conferences with professors. The creative writing faculty includes a roster of talented professionals who are published novelists, poets, non-fiction writers and filmmakers.

Creative writing course offerings also include special seminars on Journalism and the Literary Imagination and Creative Journalism (Narrative Non-Fiction Writing) as well as Harman Writer-in-Residence courses, taught each semester by a visiting distinguished writer. Past Harman Writers-in-Residence have included poets, novelists, non-fiction writers, journalists, and playwrights. Since 1998, 20 Harman writers have been on campus, including Edward Albee, Philip Gourevitch, Lorrie Moore and Charles Simic. The Harman Writer-in-Residence Program also sponsors a fall literary intern at Poets & Writers Magazine and awards student creative writing prizes each semester, in collaboration with Encounters, the Baruch College Literary Review.

For additional information on the Harman Writer-in-Residence program and offerings, please contact: Prof. Roslyn Bernstein, (646) 312-3930. For additional information on majoring or minoring in Journalism & Creative Writing, please contact Prof. Geanne Rosenberg, (646) 312-3969. For additional information on creative writing workshops, please contact Prof. Bridgett Davis, (646) 312-3927.

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