Creative Writing

Department of English

Department of Journalism

As a Specialization

Baruch undergraduates with a passion for creative writing can chose to major in the English Department or in  the newly established Department of Journalism and the Writing Professions. Classes in creative writing encourage 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 about majoring or minoring in English, please contact: Professor Barbara Gluck, 646-312-3920 or Professor William McClellan, 646-312-3939. For additional information on the Harman Writer-in-Residence program and offerings, please contact: Professor Roslyn Bernstein, (646) 312-3930. For additional information on majoring or minoring in Journalism & Creative Writing, please contact Professor Geanne Rosenberg, (646) 312-3969. For additional information on creative writing workshops, please contact Professor Bridgett Davis, (646) 312-3927.

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