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Literary Arts Program
Brown University
Box 1923
Providence, RI 02912
(401) 863-3260

 

 

Welcome

Welcome to the Literary Arts Program website.  Through this website, you can access information about our under- graduate and graduate programs, browse our course listings, learn more about our faculty, and get updates on our busy schedule of readings and events.

Courses

Registering for Literary Arts Courses

Literary Arts
Spring 2010 Courses

Course Entry Guide 2009-10

MFA Program

Our MFA application deadline for Fall 2010 entry has passed. Please note that admissions deadline for our program was December 15, 2009; no additional applications will be considered.

All admissions decisions will be made by mid-to late March.

MFA application for 2011-12 will be available from the Graduate School website in September 2010.

Application deadline for Fall 2011 entry is December 15, 2010.

All documents related to the MFA application should be sent to the Graduate School, Box 1867, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912. Please do not send application materials to the Program

Events

The Literary Arts Program is the hub
of a vibrant, campus-wide literary community with an active slate of readings, plays, festivals and performances that give student writers unique exposure to important voices in contemporary literature. Click on link
for a full list of events.

To receive updates on our readings and events, find us on Facebook under Literary Arts at Brown.

February 9
The Night of a Thousand Readings and One Reading

February 16
Salman Rushdie lectures on "Literature and Politics in the Modern World

February 19
Reading by Keith Waldrop

February 25
Reading by Tony Tost


Featured Writers

Peter Carey
(click link to hear this writer read)


Literary Arts News

Literary Arts at Brown is now on Facebook!

Edwidge Danticat '93 MFA Received 2009 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship


Faculty Notes

Professor of Literary Arts Keith Waldrop, Wins National Book Award
in Poetry for Transcendental Studies.

CD Wright wins Canada 's
Griffin Poetry Prize

Forrest Gander Named
United States Artists Fellow