Along with a handful of other writing programs nationwide, Brown provides a home for writers who are envisioning new paths in fiction, poetry, digital language arts, and mixed media.
Literary Arts
Literary Arts
For fifty years, Literary Arts at Brown University has been a creative and intellectual center for a diverse and innovative literary community.
Literary Arts
For fifty years, Literary Arts at Brown University has been a creative and intellectual center for a diverse and innovative literary community.
Course Information
These listed classes require writing samples. These classes will NOT meet on 7, 8 & 9 September (as the class list will not yet be determined). These classes will begin to meet on Monday, 12 September
Upon the closure of the Registration period, the following classes will require instructor permission to gain entry (or to be placed on the waitlist). No one will receive such permission until lotteries are run on the 7 September. (Lotteries have now been run for Fall 2022 sections)
Literary Arts offers a mixture of workshops, seminars and hybrid workshop/seminar courses each semester, many of which are special topics (and are subject to change from one semester to the next).
Academics
Undergraduate
The Department in Literary Arts offers courses in fiction, poetry, screenwriting, digital & cross-disciplinary writing, and translation, as well as seminar courses in reading and writing about literature.
Graduate
Graduate students in Brown's Literary Arts MFA program may choose to focus in one of three tracks – Fiction, Poetry, or Digital/Cross Disciplinary Writing.
Recent News
News from Literary Arts
Assistant Professor Sawako Nakayasu Receives Translation Prize, Fellowship
Assistant Professor of Literary Arts Sawako Nakayasu is one of four co-translators awarded the Modern Language Association’s 2021 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of Literary Work for their translation of Yi Sang: Selected Works, published by Wave Books.
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Lit Arts Faculty and Alum Short-Listed for 2021 National Book Awards
A Literary Arts faculty member and an alumna have been short-listed for the 2021 National Book Awards.
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New Publications
Jay Gao MFA '22 reports that his debut poetry collection, Imperium, has been accepted for August 2022 publication by Carcanet Press.
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