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 classes require writing samples. These classes will NOT meet on 6, 7 & 8 September (as the class list will not yet be determined). These classes will begin to meet on Monday, 11 September.
During the registration period, students may register for courses depending on certain factors (some are open based on class year, other on declared concentration).
Upon the closure of the Registration period, the 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 first day of the semester -- Wed., 6 September.
Upon the closure of the Registration period, the 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 first day of the semester -- Wed., 6 September.
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
Literary Arts congratulates Brown's Radcliffe Fellows for 2023-24
Alison C. Rollins and Azareen van der Vliet Oloomi have been named recipients of 2023-24 Radcliffe Fellowships by Harvard University.
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News from Literary Arts
Alumni Publications and Awards, spring 2023
Alumni have received recognitions this spring; and others have new books out or forthcoming.
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