Students in the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Creative Writing will read from their new work as part of the Program’s Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series. The reading will take place on December 16 at 5 p.m. at Taylor Commons in the Frick Chemistry Lab at Princeton University. The event is free and open to the public.

Students will read from new works of fiction, poetry, screenwriting, and literary translation completed during the past semester as part of the fall creative writing workshops.

“The student reading is always one of the highlights of the semester,” notes Tracy K. Smith, who became the new director of the program in September. “It’s a rare opportunity to observe what’s been happening in the workshops, and to celebrate the broad range of student voices.”

The small workshop courses offered by the program are limited in enrollment to ten students to ensure the benefits of working closely with faculty. Workshops meet for up to three hours weekly and are devoted primarily to discussion of student work. Each year, 15 to 20 seniors also work individually with a member of the faculty on a creative thesis, such as a novel, a screenplay, or a collection of short stories, poems, or translations.

To learn more about the Program in Creative Writing, the reading series, and the more than 100 public events offered annually by the Lewis Center for the Arts visit arts.princeton.edu.

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