Ramapo College Creative Writing Program, 505 Ramapo Valley Road, Mahwah, NJ (2025)

Information concerning the concentration/minor and related events will be posted here. The Creative Writing Program in the Salameno School of Humanities and Global Studies seeks to develop promising writers. Our program features small classes to further challenge and nurture students, creating a more fulfilling academic experience. This experience is not contained in just the classroom, but reache

s to the Ramapo College community through producing the literary magazine, The Trillium, and sponsoring the Readings at Ramapo Visiting Writers Series. For students who are majoring in Literature, a concentration in Creative Writing is available. This can be achieved by taking three Creative Writing courses and completing the Creative Writing Capstone. This can be achieved by taking Introduction to Creative Writing, an additional Creative Writing course and completing the Creative Writing Capstone. In addition, two Literature electives are required, one focused on poetry, and the other focused on prose. The following Creative Writing courses are in the college catalog:
- Introduction to Creative Writing: Fiction and Poetry
- Poetry Writing Workshop
- Creative Non-Fiction Writing Workshop
- Fiction Writing Workshop
- Creative Writing Capstone

The faculty of the Creative Writing Program are listed here:
- Professor James Hoch, Convener of the Creative Writing Program and Director of the Readings at Ramapo Visiting Writers Series
- Professor Hugh Sheehy
- Dr. Lisa Williams
- Dr. Peter Scheckner

Questions, comments and suggestions may be directed to Professor James Hoch, Director of the Creative Writing, at [email protected].

01/24/2024

SO PROUD OF OUR GRAD CARLIE HOFFMAN!!!!

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12/22/2023

“When I fell in love with English on a college campus many years ago, it was precisely because studying John Milton and James Joyce and Octavia Butler was so intoxicatingly useless in market terms. It rejected the assumption that value and utility are synonyms. The humanities captivated me — and foiled the best-laid plans of mice and pre-med — because literature and philosophy seemed to begin from a quietly revolutionary premise: There is thinking that does not exist merely to become work, and knowledge that does not exist merely to become capital.”
--Tyler Austin Harper, in The Atlantic

08/02/2023

" A loveless world is a dead world, and always there comes an hour when one is weary of prisons, of one's work, and of devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart. "

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07/13/2023

05/11/2023

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505 Ramapo Valley Road
Mahwah, NJ
07430

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https://www.ramapo.edu/majors-minors/majors/creative-writing/

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