Writers’ Residency: Fiction

MTWThF 10:00am - 5:00pm (7/20 - 7/24)
SaSu 10:00am - 5:00pm (7/25 - 7/26)
TTh 3:15pm - 6:15pm (7/14 - 7/16)
TTh 3:15pm - 6:15pm (7/28 - 7/30)

Participation Option: See Course Description

Last day to register:

Week one: Tuesday and Thursday, July 14-16, 3:15-6:15 pm Eastern time, either on campus or via live attendance web conference.
Week two master class: Monday-Friday, July 20-24, 10 am-5 pm, on campus.
Agents-and-editors weekend: Saturday and Sunday, July 25-26, 10 am-5 pm, on campus.
Week three: Tuesday and Thursday, July 28-30, 3:15-6:15 pm Eastern time, either on campus or via live attendance web conference.

Students attending on F-1 visas must attend all course meetings on campus.
See syllabus for further details.

Students must be officially admitted degree candidates in good academic standing in the Master of Liberal Arts (ALM), creative writing and literature. Prospective candidates and students with pending admission applications are not eligible. Candidates must have successfully completed at least 28 degree-applicable credits with required grades. Pre-arrival requirements: by Monday, June 29, two weeks prior to the start of the writers' residency, candidates must post to Canvas an original manuscript of no more than 3,500 words. Manuscript requirements vary by section, so consult the syllabus for your section. All participants are required to read and critique their classmates' work in advance of the first meeting of the master class on July 20. Candidates who do not meet the degree requirements or fail to submit the manuscript by the deadline and complete their critiques in advance of the first meeting of the master class will be dropped from the course. Final course work is due Thursday, July 30.

Not open to Secondary School Program students. Students attending on F-1 visas must attend all course meetings on campus. Harvard Summer School housing is available for the full three weeks for students who wish to remain on campus while they work on their writing projects (one-week housing is not available on campus). Students in this course and other sections of CREA S-490a, CREA S-490b, CREA S-490c, CREA S-490d, and CREA S-490e may interact with one another, for example, in Canvas or class sessions. Accordingly, when students participate in live class sessions, they will do so alongside students in other sections. If students participate in a way that causes them to appear in recordings of the class, those recordings may be shown to students enrolled in other sections of this course.

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