Creative Writing

Students working toward a bachelor's degree or minor in creative writing practice extensive study of literature along with the craft of writing. Our obsession is literary art: immersing ourselves in it, understanding it and creating it.

Pacific's workshop courses are small, intensive and geared toward the practice of craft. With the guidance and support of our writing professors, students write extensively, provide critiques of each other's work and perfect the art of revision.

Creative writing students assist in editing and publishing two magazines.

  • Silk Road Review, an internationally recognized literary journal.
  • PLUM, Pacific's Literature by Undergraduates Magazine, which publishes the winners of Pacific University's Writing Competition, held every spring. Prizes are awarded in the areas of literary scholarship expository writing and creative writing.

Program Highlights

  • One of the few independent creative writing majors in the Northwest
  • Dedicated, innovative and widely published teachers devoted to the writing arts
  • Opportunities to work individually with professors on a creative senior thesis and to present that work to the University community on Senior Projects Day
  • Access to on-campus readings by internationally recognized visiting writers
  • Interaction with faculty and students from Pacific's low-residency MFA in Writing program, including opportunities to serve as interns
  • Students serve as editors for Silk Road Review and PLUM, which are at the heart of Pacific's vibrant student writers' community
  • Opportunities for exciting internships with local publishers
  • Opportunities to hear acclaimed writers in the Portland Arts and Lectures Series and visit the fabled Powell's bookstore for readings and explorations, both part of Portland's rich literary culture

 

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Publishing: Editorial work with Silk Road Literary Review

Writing Tutors: Work in Pacific's Writing Resource Center

Internships: Intern in Pacific's MFA in Writing Program