Instagram story viewer> @purchcreativewriting> Posts

Creative Writing Program

@purchcreativewriting

247

followers

119

following

Purchase College Creative Writing Program's official Instagram account!
More news and updates coming soon!

POSTS STORIES REELS

Halloween is ON at Purchase! Narrative Techniques Freshman celebrated with costumes this week. Can you guess what they are? by @purchcreativewriting

We hope everyone enjoyed Kaveh Akbar at yesterdays Durst Lecture Series!

We'd like to introduce a new series on @purchcreativewriting, What We Are Reading! If you'd like to submit, go to the linktree in our bio. by @purchcreativewriting

Ethan Luce's (Creative Writing '26) story "Dog/God" will be in publication with Dark Ink Books. It will be released in April 2027! Ethan speaks about his story and gives some advice to current students. by @purchcreativewriting

Hi writers! I am Kaiser (they/them), and I’m stepping into the role of Assistant to the Creative Writing program this year. In this position, my responsibilities include, among other tasks, organizing program events, serving as a liaison to Admissions, answering questions about the program to both external and internal prospective majors, managing our Instagram Page (@purchcreativewriting), and most importantly, serving as a resource and advocate for you all. I am beyond excited for the year ahead to collaborate with you all! Please keep an eye out for emails from me this year about events and news. Please reach out if you have any questions or wish to chat! by @purchcreativewriting

Come by Humanities 2059 on September 30th at 12-2PM for the annual Creative Writing Mixer! Catch up, meet peers, and discuss writing, classes, or anything else! Pizza and snacks will be provided.

Please RSVP by September 24th. Hope to see you there!

RSVP LINK : https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1zV1L5qdOM8YMHADd8_jpUcxY_l09qCvgr7Q8FuBZUWs/edit by @purchcreativewriting

It's Graduation Day tomorrow and these are some of the next generation of writers!!
This isn't our whole graduating class, but please give your biggest congratulations to all the creative writers graduating tomorrow, pictured or not you should all be so so proud!!!

In order:

Remi Bryan
Alice Vigue
Ethan Luce
Zoey Hawkins
Rinn Kress
Xamier Taliaferrow
Kayley Shanks
Shelia Verkaik
Isabel Silverman
Sammie Terpening
Izzy Taylor
Freyja Berger by @purchcreativewriting

On Tuesday May 5th we had our CWR Speing Senior Showcase! Where the CWR seniors read from their senior projects! Thank you so much for everyone that attended and everyone who read!!

It was a truly lovely event!!

Photos of readers in order of appearance:

Freyja Berger
Remi Bryan
Jamie Colwell
Zoey Hawkins
Rinn Kress
Nayeli Roldan
Xamier Taliaferrow
Sheila Verkaik

Photo credits: Ruby Hentoff and Myself by @purchcreativewriting

Next Tuesday!! The Purchase Creative Writing Program is celebrating their talented graduating seniors with a Spring Senior Showcase!

Come support your fellow students by hearing them read excerpts from their senior projects and followed by light refreshments!

The event will be held in the Harbor Center, tomorrow, Tuesday May 5th, at 4:30 PM.

Hope to see you there! by @purchcreativewriting

Next Wednesday! The talented Yiyun Li will be coming to Purchase for the next installment of the Durst Distinguished Lecture Series! This event will be held Wednesday, March 18th, in the Library Upper Level, at 6 PM!

I hope to see you all there!!

Official Purchase Website Description:

"Yiyun Li is the author of twelve books, including the novel The Book of Goose (2022), winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction; the story collection Wednesday’s Child (2023), which was named a best book of the year by the Los Angeles Times, Vulture, Esquire, NPR, and Kirkus; and the memoir Things in Nature Merely Grow (2025), which was shortlisted for the National Book Award and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction and was longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography and the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award. Li is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Windham-Campbell Prize, among other honors. A contributing editor to A Public Space, she is the Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University."

"Individuals requiring accommodations for equal access to this event are encouraged to contact HUM.office@purchase.edu as soon as possible so that a good faith effort can be made by the organizers to meet the identified needs." by @purchcreativewriting

Mark your calendars! This semester's first Durst lecture features the talented Kiran Desai! The lecture is next Monday, March 2nd in the Humanities Theater at 6 PM!

Hope to see you all there!

Official Purchase Website Description:

"Kiran Desai is the bestselling author of three novels: Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard (1998), winner of the Betty Trask Award; The Inheritance of Loss (2006), which won both the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny (2025), which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, was a Kirkus Prize Finalist, and was named a best book of the year by, among other places, the New York Times, The New Yorker, and NPR. Born in India, Desai came to the United States when she was sixteen and now lives in New York City."

"
Individuals requiring accommodations for equal access to this event are encouraged to contact HUM.office@purchase.edu as soon as possible so that a good faith effort can be made by the organizers to meet the identified needs." by @purchcreativewriting

Welcome back CWR Students! Hopefully everyone is settling into the new semester and more importantly staying warm.

Stay tuned for more news about events and the program as the semester goes on! Welcome back! by @purchcreativewriting

Alright CWR students, I wanted to showcase all the postcard senders on one post just as a final thank you!

In order on this post:
Hyde
Josie
Lucy
Sammie
Ruby
Alix
Freyja
Izzy
Ethan
Sheila

See you all next week! by @purchcreativewriting