UC Santa Cruz - Creative Writing

"Santa Cruz was the best---the best vibe from the students and the faculty and the place ---everything was just hummmmming." -Visiting Author Lucy Corin

Display of Senior Writing Projects (Class of 2016)

Student reading a fellow peer's work

Program Spotlight

Alumni Interview Series: Mary Allen

News & Events

March 17, 2020
Living Writers Series Winter 2020
March 17, 2020

Living Writers Series

Feb 27: Gretchen Primack
Mar 5: Konrad Steiner
Mar 12: Student Reading

Program Information

The Creative Writing Program program is administered by the Literature Department at UCSC.

Literature Major/Minor Advising:

Humanities 1, room 303

(831) 459-4778

Alumni Site

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