The Professional Writing Program is for writers who want to take themselves, and be taken, seriously.
Like most writing programs, we offer courses -- excellent courses -- in fiction and poetry. But we also offer journalism, editing, reviewing, creative non-fiction, business writing, screenplay writing, copy-editing, playwriting, technical writing, oral history, travel writing, writing about the environment, writing for electronic gaming.
You'll learn the art and craft of writing, and the skills needed to flourish in the writing business. You’ll meet a wide variety of people who write professionally, and you'll have the chance to chat with them, to ask them not only about inspiration but about how they make a living.
By the time they graduate, more than two-thirds of our majors will have had their writing published or performed, and one in six will have earned money as a writer.
The Professional Writing Program will take you seriously from the first week. You'll never look back.
What you'll
do...
Write an amazing variety of pieces as you find your own voice, your own subjects.
Think more broadly than you’ve ever thought before. Your writing will only ever be as interesting as your mind.
Discuss your own writing, the writing of your peers, your reading, your evolving sense of yourself as a writer and your writerly ambitions.
Read writing of all kinds from all over the world.
Watch live performances and readings, film, theater, television--anything that uses language and holds your attention.
Perform your own writing, and perhaps that of other writers you admire.
Publish your own work--at first online in an electronic portfolio, but then in campus publications, online publications, magazines, newspapers. The range of your exploration and your impact is up to you.
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What
is professional writing?
How
is the Champlain program
different from, say, a
creative writing program?
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Want
to learn more about the
Professional Writing Program?
 If
you have questions about
Champlain’s Professional
Writing Program, e-mail
the Program Director, Tim
Brookes.
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 Albert Martini '09
Professional Writing
"This major has transformed me from being a literal thinker into a metaphorical one."
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