Welcome to Creative Writing @ A&T, North Carolina A&T State University’s new Creative Writing Program! With our emphasis on craft, tradition and innovation, our faculty of writers and scholars stand ready to foster literary excellence in our students.

Creative Writing @ A&T offers a Bachelors’ of Arts in English, Creative Writing with 125/126 semester hours. The concentration (24 Semester hours) currently consists of courses in fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction and dramatic writing. Students are also offered the opportunity to apply their knowledge and skill of creative writing to practical, real life situations through participation in the service-learning course: Creative Literary Production and Service in Society (CLAPS).

Our mission is to serve and educate writers in a challenging yet supportive

community. In addition to the core offerings of workshops and craft classes, with an emphasis in African American Literature and other World Literatures, our students are enriched by our new Visiting Writers Series which features workshops and readings by nationally and regionally recognized writers. Our list has included visits from:

Toi Derricotte: Poet and Memoirist

Michelle Andrea Bowen: author of Church Folk and Second Sunday

Rita Dove: former US Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner

Amaris Howard: Spoken Word Artist and Community Activist

Amir Sulaiman: Spoken Word Artist

Righteous AIM: spoken Word Performance Troupe

Ebony Golden, Poet, Choreographer

Demetrius Noble, Spoken Word Artist, Activist

We also offer opportunities for student writers to:

· participate in the Aggie’s Open-Mic Night;

· perform in A&T’s Premiere Spoken Word Troupe: Poetic Insurgence;

· publish in our new literary journal: Encore

· join the creative writing club: Freedom Scribes. Students will also have the opportunity to be recognized for their accomplishments through their participation in our writing competitions for both fiction and poetry:

Annual Sonia Sanchez and Amiri Baraka poetry Prize - Spring

Annual Charles Johnson and Toni Cade Bambara Short Fiction Prize - Fall

New! NC A&T Poet Laurate

Come dream with us, come create with us. Join a program where your talents can be developed and showcased! Become a part of this dynamic and exciting program as we prepare to light-up the literary skies in North Carolina and Beyond.

For further Information, contact:

Dr. Anjail Rashida Ahmad, Director

Creative Writing @ A&T

English Department, General Classroom Building A-427

North Carolina A&T State University

1601 East Market Street

Greensboro, North Carolina 27411

Telephone: 336-334-7771, ext. 2370

Fax: 336-334-3342

E-mail: arahmad@ncat.edu

Program Web: http://www.ncat.edu/~creative