Creative Writing Courses
Creative Writing & Journalism Courses for Yale College Students Spring 2027
Students may take more than one creative writing class in the same term, but not two in the same genre: Drama, Fiction, Nonfiction and Journalism, Poetry. In addition, students who enroll in ENGL 4400/4401 The Creative Writing Concentration Senior Project may not enroll in any other creative writing course in the same term.
Courses may be searched under the Course Information Attribute “YC ENGL Creative Writing” on Yale Course Search (YCS).
Visit Canvas Sites for Course Enrollment Information
Applications for courses that require them in advance may be due as early as noon on Friday, November 20. Please check the course sites on Canvas for registration and/or application information and deadlines; these can be accessed through YCS by clicking on the Syllabus link in the course window. In most cases, students may enroll during registration period by submitting an instructor permission request through YCS, or by enrolling on a first-come-first-served basis, depending on the course. Where an application is required, students will be notified by November 30 of instructors’ decisions.
Completing Registration
Upon acceptance, please submit an instructor permission request through YCS, if this has not already been done. Instructors will approve admitted student requests in YCS; approved students must then return to YCS to Confirm Changes and complete registration in the course. Admitted students who do not complete registration in the course by December 4 (or the date requested by the instructor, whichever comes first) may have their places filled from the waiting list. Applicants who submit after the instructor’s deadline may be accepted to the waiting list.
DRAMA
ENGL 3433 Narrative Podcasts. Aaron Tracy.
ENGL 3434 Writing the Television Drama. Derek Green.
ENGL 4434 The Art and Craft of Television Drama. Aaron Tracy.
ENGL 4435/TDPS 4021/ FILM 4010 Writing Screenplay Adaptations. Donald Margulies.
FICTION
ENGL 2441 The Craft of Fiction. Adam Sexton and Sophia Veltfort.
ENGL 3442 Young Adult Writing. Jake Halpern.
ENGL 3443 Writing Fiction from the Archives. R. Clifton Spargo.
ENGL 3444 Speculative Fiction Writing. Marie-Helene Bertino.
ENGL 4441 Advanced Fiction Writing. Amity Gaige.
NONFICTION
ENGL 2451 The Art and Craft of the Diary. Rachel Kauder-Nalebuff.
ENGL 3453/FILM 3970/TDPS 2302 Writing about the Performing Arts. Margaret Spillane.
ENGL 3459 Writing Humor. Ryan Wepler.
ENGL 3461 Nonfiction Writing: Writing about Clothes. Kate Bolick.
EVST 3224/ENGL 3467 Writing About the Environment. Alan Burdick.
HUMS 1740/ ENGL 3474/COSM 3000/HIST 2705 Writing from the Archive: Imagining the Real. Adina Hoffman.
ENGL 4455 Writing about Oneself. Anne Fadiman.
ENGL 4458/ AMST 3313/ARCH 3118 Writing about Place. Cynthia Zarin.
ENGL 4460 Journalism. Susan Dominus.
ENGL 4461 Writing about Justice and Injustice. Sarah Stillman
ENGL 4462 The Journalism of Ideas. James Surowiecki.
POETRY
ENGL 3421 Poetry Writing. Cynthia Zarin.
ENGL 4421 Advanced Poetry Writing. Meghan O’Rourke.
MULTIGENRE
ENGL 1020 Reading and Writing the Modern Essay. Kate Bolick, Lincoln Caplan, Craig Eklund, Lacey Jones, Pamela Newton, Barbara Riley, Nafeesa Syeed, and Seth Walls.
ENGL 1023 Introduction to Creative Writing. Richard Deming and Jennifer Stock.
- ENGL 1020 and 1023 count as introductory courses for English Majors; do not count towards the Creative Writing Concentration.
CPLT 3048/ ENGL 2415/HUMS 1996/JDST 3816 The Practice of Literary Translation. Peter Cole.
ENGL 3411 Bearing Witness: The Craft of Testimonial Writing. R. Clifton Spargo.
ENGL 3412 Writing About Faith. Danielle Chapman.
ENGL 3400 Tutorial in Writing. ENGL 3400 Proposal
ENGL 4400 The Creative Writing Concentration Senior Project. ENGL 4400 Proposal
- Proposals for the ENGL 3400 and ENGL 4400 are due on November 3 at noon. Students will be notified on November 16 whether the proposal has been approved or revisions are required.
Questions? Contact Erica Sayers or Jane Bordiere.