Creative Writing Certificate Program
Illustration by Valerie Tran
Announcements
Admission Applications
The deadline for applying to the Creative Writing Certificate Program was March 1. We are no longer accepting applications at this time. The next application window is September 1 - October 1, 2024.
Creative Writing Certificate Program End-of-Semester Reception and Readings
Please join us on Wednesday, May 1, in the Joynes Reading Room (Carothers Residence Hall) for our end-of-semester celebration.
Reception begins at 12:30pm with food and refreshments.
Writing Awards and Readings begin at 1:00pm
Creative Writing Honors Thesis Readings begin at 2:00pm.
Please feel free to come to all or part of the program. Family and friends are welcome!
Writing Contest Winners Announced
Congratulations to the Winners of the Kruger Fellowships and Parker Prizes for student writing.
KRUGER Fiction
1st Place Lara Palmqvist - "In Another Life"
Runner-up Stephanie Degnore - "Where the Light Shines Brightest"
Runner-up Varun Jawarani - "Lakshana"
KRUGER Poetry
1st Place Aguilar Alfredo - "After Three Beers My Tia Talks About The Border"
Runner-up Safiyya Haider - "Assimilation Is Performance Art"
PARKER Fiction
1st Place Molly Tompkins - "Bolt from the Blue"
Runner-up Charlie Sharpe - "A Horse of Course”
Runner-up Ashley Rummel - "The Artists"
PARKER Poetry
1st Place Leah Piñon - "The World Ends Through the Mirrors in Your House"
Runner-up Boppana Pradhitha - "Alternate Methods of Crying"
PARKER Lit Crit
1st Place Molly Tompkins - "Celestial, Beautiful, and Social Bodies"
Runner-up Lane Dent - “Our False Perception of Nature”,
Congratulations to all the contest winners and honors thesis students!
Ongoing Opportunities
Check back often for more links to publishing, contest, and internship opportunities.
The Writers' League of Texas provides internship, networking, literary, and educational opportunities in Austin and around the state, as well as an annual conference featuring literary agents and editors.
The Texas Book Festival, one of the largest in the country, takes place annually in late October / early November, but offers volunteer opportunities throughout the year.
Poets and Writers magazine lists contests, fellowships, grants, and literary journals for writers of all levels.