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The Creative Writing program at Colby offers students the opportunity to exercise their imaginations through disciplined work in the craft of writing.  Staffed by dedicated, practicing, published writers committed to teaching creative writing as a craft and an art and to teaching technique as a way of seeing as well as a way of saying, it welcomes the novice writer as well as more advanced students.  For more detailed information about the program, please click here.

 
Program News, 2008-09

Patrick Donnelly will be teaching with the Creative Writing Program as our Poetry Fellow for a second year.  His book The Charge was published by Ausable Press in 2003.  He is an Assistant Editor at Four Way Books and has taught writing at Smith College and the New School University, Clark University, and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.  He has published poems in The American Poetry Review, The Yale Review, The Massachusetts Review, and many other magazines.  We're glad to have him with us for another year.

 
Upcoming Events
 
Visiting Writers 2008-09
Upcoming writers include Joan Wickersham, Mark Halliday and Betsy Scholl. Check back for details in August.
 
 
Pequod: Liz Stovall '07

Outside Tequila Roadhouse, Three Years Ago Now

Streetlights poke white holes in the night as I sit alone
on a curb on bar street buzzing with distortion
and slurred words with everybody feeling ready

 to fight. Twelve beers and I’m 26 swimming
with bricks, trying to keep my head floating
above my shoulders and out of the green slick gutter water

I breathe in
and out.
What next? It’s Friday

More...

 
 
Jane Eklund, '81
Jane Eklund has received grants from the New Hampshire State Council for the Arts for poetry and the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice for fiction.  Her poems have appeared in the Georgia Review, the North American Review, and other magazines.  She works as an editor at a weekly newspaper in Peterborough, NH. 
 
 
Michael Burke
Michael Burke's memoir/adventure narrative, The Same River Twice, was released by the University of Arizona Press in 2006. He is at work on a writing project concerning the national parks of South Africa, and is editor of a forthcoming volume on Maine's place in the environmental imagination of the United States.
Past
Visiting
Writers
 
Sherman Bitsui
Sherman Bitsui
 
Edward Albee
Sherman Alexie
John Ashbery
Toni Cade Bambara
Jocelyn Bartkevicius
Charles Baxter
Marvin Bell
Eavan Boland
Gwendolyn Brooks
Raymond Carver
Lan Samantha Chang
Lucille Clifton
Leo Connellan
Robert Coover
Ron Currie
Carl Dennis
Michael Dorris
Peter Filkins
Alice Fulton
Robert Frost
Brendan Galvn
John Gardner
Jorie Graham
Ross Gay
Donald Hall
Barbara Hamby
Michael Harper
Seamus Heaney
Jane Hirshfield
Tony Hoagland
Richard Howard
Marie Howe
Cynthia Huntingtovn
John Irving
Honoree F Jeffers
Gish Jen
Rodney Jones
Laura Kaischke
Brigit Pegeen Kelly
Lily King
Galway Kinnell
Yusef Komunyakaa
Tom Lux
Paule Marshall
Cleopatra Mathis
Mekeel McBride
James McConkey
Heather McHugh
Wes McNair
Jane Mead
William Meredith
Claire Messud
Jane Miller
Sue Miller
Czeslaw Milosz
Susan Minot
Lorrie Moore
Carole Muske
Howard Norman
Nuala O’Foalain
Steve Orlen
Greg Orr
Mike Paterniti
Tom Perrotta
Robert Pinksy
Stanley Plumley
Lewis Robinson
Bill Roorbach
Mary Rueffle
Stephen Sender
Joan Silber
Rachel Simon
Gary Snyder
William Stafford
Gerald Stern
Steve Stern
Mark Strand
Elizabeth Strout
James Sullivan
James Tate
David Wagoner
Derek Walcott
Dara Weir
C.K.Williams
Monica Wood
Baron Wormser
Dean Young