The Creative Writing program at Pitzer College is housed within the English and World Literature field group. We believe that student work has meaningful literary and intellectual value, and we foster a supportive community of writers among our students.
As writers, our practice is to listen for the poems and stories that exist in the world before they are written. The aim of the writer is not to make a precise replica of experience, not to degrade the world in such a way, nor its ever-changing nature, but to build a door. If we are lucky, our readers walk through that door, arriving at a room we could never have predicted alone.
Literature stirs us and is stirred by us; it is not something to be experienced at arm's length. For this reason, we encourage our students to practice becoming engaged readers and writers of literature. We also hope our students will explore other disciplines, in order to broaden the sources for their own writing. Students will find a diverse offering of courses in creative writing and literature at both Pitzer and the other Claremont Colleges. They will also find many opportunities in the vibrant literary culture of the Los Angeles area.
Friday, October 2nd: Master Class with Poet Douglas Kearney
Wednesday, October 7th: Poetry Reading with Brenda Hillman
October 30th – November 20th: Screenwriting Master Class
with Matthew Carnahan
Wednesday, Dec. 2nd: The Provenance of Beauty / A South Bronx Travelogue
Claudia Rankine, Melanie Joseph, Sarah Hayon, Casey Llewellyn
Pomona College - Rose Hills Theater, 4:15pm
Wednesday, February 3rd: Poetry Reading with Ching-in Chen
Pitzer College, 7pm
