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Creative Writing

Creative writing is the artistic practice of composing and refining fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction. It is an area of study very different from others within English. Creative writing students generally take workshop courses in which they submit their own work for constructive critique by their classmates, as well as by faculty with a strong national profile in publication.

The creative writing faculty at the University of Nevada, Reno specialize primarily in fiction and poetry, though we offer periodic courses in other areas such as creative nonfiction and screenwriting. Our fiction writers create and are familiar with a wide range of approaches (including YA fiction and work written within commercial genres such as fantasy, mystery, horror and so on). Our poets write in a broad spectrum of poetic styles and have published books in narrative, lyric and experimental modes.

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Interested in exploring creative writing more? Consider applying for our Master's program.

Major in writing MFA in creative writing

Opportunities for students

A range of resources and opportunities are available for students to become involved in publishing and professional experience and to teach writing to the community. Many of our graduate students have presented their work at local readings and events.

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Teaching assistantships and financial support

Most of our students are awarded teaching assistantships (which pay a stipend and tuition waiver in exchange for teaching first-year classes in the Core Writing Program); other opportunities for teaching and campus employment are frequently available.

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Publishing and professional experience

MFA students can work on a number of publishing projects via the program’s relationships with Reno-based Baobab Press and the University’s Black Rock Press. Several of our students have applied internship credit toward their degree and have worked for the University of Nevada Press and other local organizations.

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Community outreach

We encourage our students to be active members of Reno’s vibrant and active literary community, as well as good literary citizens. MFA students take part in Reno’s annual Literary Crawl, give readings to benefit charities, offer workshops for organizations such as Reno’s Holland Project and help run the annual University of Nevada, Reno Summer Youth Writing Program.

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Visiting writers

Every year, between five and seven prominent writers visit campus to read from their work and visit with our creative writing students, including yearly short-residency visitors in both fiction and poetry. Recent short-residency visitors have included Saladin Ahmed, Cai Emmons, Manuel Gonzales, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Patricia Smith, Justin Torres, Srikanth Reddy and Robert Wrigley. Many other writers visit Reno frequently.

Faculty in creative writing

I’m a fiction writer with a passion for helping students discover and hone their unique voices. My writing is sometimes literary, sometimes slipstream, and always feminist. I primarily write short stories, and my work has appeared in Sequestrum, Cream City Review, New South, The Boiler, Reed Magazine, The New Limestone Review, Timber and elsewhere. My short-story collection, Little Fury , is forthcoming from Metatron Press in spring of 2023. I also co-direct a summer music camp for self-identified girls, trans and gender-expansive kids called Girls Rock Reno. Currently, a novel is very hard at work on me.

Michael Branch

I write creative nonfiction, usually with an environmental emphasis, and often crossing over into the neighboring territories of popular science, humor, and memoir. I’ve published over 300 essays and reviews in venues including CNN, San Francisco Chronicle, Slate, Outside, Pacific Standard, Huffington Post, Bustle, Utne Reader, Orion, Ecotone, National Parks, The Scientist, High Country News, Terrain.org, Places Journal, Whole Terrain, and Red Rock Review. My books include Raising Wild , Rants from the Hill , How to Cuss in Western , and On the Trail of the Jackalope .

Christopher Coake

I’m a fiction writer; I also currently direct the residential MFA program in creative writing. I’ve published two story collections— We’re in Trouble and You Would Have Told Me Not To —and a novel, You Came Back , which was adapted into a feature-length, Italian-language film in 2020. My work is literary, and often edges into genre territory; I’ve had stories published in mystery, horror and fantasy anthologies (including Best American Mystery Stories and The Best American Noir of the Century), and I’m working on a fantasy novel, as well as a realist love story.

Linzy Garcia

I am a fiction writer who fell in love with both (very) short-form and long-form literary fiction. My fiction explores female pleasure, shame, experience, and memory. My flash fiction appears in The Dollhouse (print), Lady/Liberty/Lit, Thin Air Magazine, NV Humanities, and The Normal School. I am currently working on a novel about a young woman who revisits her hometown and her past, unsure if they know the dark secret she ran away from: a secret affair with her high school teacher. Now, as an adult, she is forced to return and grapple with the lasting and interwoven threads of trauma and love.

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Steven Gehrke

As a poet, my interests include ekphrastic poetry, elegiac poetry, poetry about illness and recovery, poetry about fatherhood, and poetry about faith and religion. I am currently working on a new collection, tentatively titled Football in America , that touches on many of these interests. I look for expansiveness and inclusiveness in poetry and am drawn to poetry that is able to tell a story while maintaining the intensity and linguistic invention of the lyric. I’ve also written several full-length screenplays, the latest of which details the life of the inventor of the dialysis machine.

Ann Keniston

I’m a poet, essayist, and scholar of contemporary North American poetry, with a particular interest in hybrid forms that combine research with introspection. I’m at work on a collection of poems about art forgery, the art market, and the self-portrait genre, and on a collection of hybrid personal-researched essays topics including collecting, the autopsy form, and more.

Joanne Mallari

I write poetry, and I am currently working on a full-length collection. My debut chapbook, Daughter Tongue , was published by Kelsay Books. As a teacher, I believe in making arts education more accessible, because I discovered my love of language through public programs like the Southern Nevada Writing Project. Outside the classroom, I enjoy collaborating with fellow readers, writers, and artists in the Reno community.

Claire Stanford

I am a fiction writer, and my debut novel, Happy for You , was published in 2022. I am primarily a novelist, but I also write short fiction, flash fiction, and nonfiction. In both my teaching and my work, I am particularly interested in the political meaning of craft and form. Along with my MFA, I also hold a PhD in English, and my scholarship is focused on science fiction studies, Asian American literature, and posthumanism. I am currently at work on my second novel, which has a speculative bent.

Jared Stanley

My poems explore the ways spiritual traditions help us navigate the profound, ongoing weirdness of climate change. I’ve written four books of poetry, most recently So Tough , winner of the 2022 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize. I'm always looking for ways to present poetry outside of books, so I often collaborate with visual artists, making artworks that play with museums, archives, and monuments, which take various forms including billboards, decks of cards, ceramics and prints. I’m currently working on my fifth collection of poems as well as a novel, Leave Here Satisfied.

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Intro to Creative Writing: Fiction and Poetry

This class is an introductory level creative writing class in which primarily the principles of poetry and fiction will be addressed, with some limited discussion of creative nonfiction. Students who successfully complete this course will have a working knowledge of the literary arts and the life of the literary artist and should be better prepared to go on to advanced study in the genre of their choice.

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Nevada Resources for Writers

Here you’ll find a collection of resources for writers in Nevada, from conferences to local critique groups to literary magazines. If you’re looking for writing groups near you, writing workshops near you, creative writing classes near you, or simply a place to hang out with writers or submit your work, these are some Nevada writing organizations you might want to check out:

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For more than a decade, WriteByNight has helped writers in Nevada and beyond achieve their literary goals. And we want you to be next! Claim your free consultation to learn about WBN’s customizable one-on-one writers’ services , including:

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Black Mountain Institute

An international literary center dedicated to promoting discourse on today’s most pressing issues. It provides an environment where creative writers and scholars can fight against entrenched perspectives, whatever their political or cultural source.

Brushfire Journal

Brushfire is Nevada’s oldest literary and arts journal, based at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Interim Magazine

Interim is a biannual creative writing publication that features poetry, translation, belles lettres, short fiction and book reviews.

A litmag accepting fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and black-and-white comics. Published out of Reno’s Truckee Meadows Community College.

Red Rock Review

A nonprofit biannual journal dedicated to publishing quality writing. Red Rock Review invites submissions of fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry from both established and emerging writers.

Sierra Nevada Review

An annual literary magazine published in May featuring poetry and short fiction.

Southern Nevada Writing Project

Committed to designing and delivering the highest quality professional experiences in an effort to improve and transform the teaching of writing.

Squaw Valley Workshop

Every summer for over 40 years, the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley has brought together poets, prose writers and screenwriters for weeks of writing workshops, individual conferences, lectures, panels, readings and discussions of the craft and the business of writing.

Help us add to this list, Nevadans! Do you know of writing groups near you, writing workshops near you, creative writing classes near you, or a Nevada literary journal we should be aware of? Let us know here

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High Sierra Writers

The High Sierra Writers meet monthly at Scheels at Legends in Sparks, NV. The address is 1200 Scheels Drive, Sparks, NV 89434.

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Find details about every creative writing competition—including poetry contests, short story competitions, essay contests, awards for novels, grants for translators, and more—that we’ve published in the Grants & Awards section of Poets & Writers Magazine during the past year. We carefully review the practices and policies of each contest before including it in the Writing Contests database, the most trusted resource for legitimate writing contests available anywhere.

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University of Nevada, Reno

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Poetry: Steve Gehrke, Ann Keniston, Jared Stanley Fiction: Christopher Coake, Claire Stanford

The program offers partial funding, which includes teaching assistantships.

The program is friendly to fiction applicants who work in genre writing and aspire to produce work of literary quality.

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