Creative Writing

Creative Writing provides students opportunities for generating and revising verbal pieces in various genres (fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction), and for sharing those pieces aloud, both in class and in the larger setting of Montgomery Auditorium. Representative student work, collected at the end of the summer program, is featured in a print journal compiled by the instructor and Allegheny interns. Ideally, certain pieces created in this setting will find counterparts in music, if not also art and dance; a poem written in Creative Writing, for instance, might serve as lyric base for a performance during Landscapes' last evening; that poem might be acted and danced and graphically rendered, as well as sung.