Pitzer College Creative Writing

Resources for Writers

• Tools for Writers
• Bernadette Mayer's Poetry Experiments
• Brian Kiteley's Fiction Exercises
• The Time is Now: Creative Writing Prompts
• Here Comes Everybody: writers on writing
• Learning to Love You More: art/writing assignments
• Online Etymology Dictionary
• N + 7 Machine
• Toward a Process for Critical Response: Liz Lerman's suggestions for a productive workshop
• Selby's List of Experimental Magazines
• The Page: Poetry, Essays, Language, Ideas
• Penn Sound: poetry recordings
• Electronic Poetry Center at the University of Buffalo
• The Rumpus Poetry Book Club

Organizations

• Emerging Writers Network
• Emerging Voices: a program of PEN Center USA
• Poets and Writers
• The Poetry Foundation
• Cave Canem: resources for African American poets
• Kundiman: resources for Asian American poets
• Lambda Literary: resources for LGBT writers

Summer Writing Retreats

• Community of Writers at Squaw Valley
• Napa Valley Writer's Conference
• Naropa Summer Writing Program
• New York State Summer Writers Institute
• Voices at VONA: for emerging writers of color
• Lambda Literary Writers Retreat
• Bread Loaf Writers Conference

Community-Based Writing Classes & Teachers

• Beyond Baroque in Venice, CA
• UCLA Extension Writers' Program
• Kim Addonizio in Oakland, CA
• Genine Lentine in San Francisco, CA
• Rae Gouirand in Davis, CA
• 92nd Street Y Creative Writing Classes in New York City
• Bent Writing Institute in Seattle, WA
• Information on MFA Programs
• AWP Guide to MFA Programs
• Poets & Writers Guide to MFA Programs