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
For LITR 210, up to six LITR concentrators may enroll during the registration process.
Following the registration process, the classes listed here will require writing samples. Any Brown or RISD undergraduate may apply to take below-1000 level workshops. These classes will NOT meet on 24, 5 & 26 January (as the class list will not yet be determined). These classes will begin to meet on Monday, 29 January 2024.
Following the registration process, the classes listed here will require writing samples. Any Brown or RISD undergraduate may apply to take below-1000 level workshops. These classes will NOT meet on 24, 5 & 26 January (as the class list will not yet be determined). These classes will begin to meet on Monday, 29 January 2024.
During the registration period, students may register for courses depending on certain factors —some are open based on class year, others on declared concentration.
After the Registration period, instructor permission is needed to gain entry/access to the waitlist. No one will receive such permission until lotteries are run on the first day of the semester — for spring 2024, these lotteries take place on Wed., 24 January.
After the Registration period, instructor permission is needed to gain entry/access to the waitlist. No one will receive such permission until lotteries are run on the first day of the semester — for spring 2024, these lotteries take place on Wed., 24 January.
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
Literary Arts congratulates Bhion Achimba, MFA class of 2022, for receiving the prestigious Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship. On October 21, 2023, a special event at the Poetry Foundation will bring all five fellows together for the first time for a free public reading to share their poetry and celebrate their accomplishments.
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New York Times
Keith Waldrop NY Times obituary
Keith Waldrop, professor emeritus, who died 27 July, is remembered in the New York Times.
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