I spent last fall in Ireland, and I miss the music most of all. Whether you go drinking on a Saturday night or wander around on a Tuesday afternoon, you will hear beautiful, vibrant, live music spilling out of virtually every pub door in virtually every Irish town.

The Creative Writing Program offers you an abundance of readings, ideas, and prompts for you to cultivate your summer creative practices.

 Modernism/modernity’s cluster on Hope Mirrlees’s Paris: A Poem, commissioned and developed in collaboration with Fordham English’s Professor Anne Fernald, has won the Council of Editors of Learned Journals 2025 prize for Best Digital Feature.

Amidst one of New York City’s bitterest winters in recent memory, a Creative Writing Capstone class hosted a cozy gathering called Camp Creative. This summer-camp-in-winter themed event brought the Fordham community together to bond, relax, and enjoy the homey pleasures of literature and storytelling.

The English Department is thrilled to announce the student winners of this year’s creative writing prizes: Corinne Percy, Adithi Vimalanathan, Mustafa Motlani, and Coley Gibson

The students of Professor Susan Greenfield’s “Jane Austen in Context” course discuss the recently published Ladies in Waiting: Jane Austen’s Unsung Characters with visiting authors

Fordham students, alumni, faculty, and staff took part in a virtual creativity staycation this winter that is part of a new approach to building a writing practice.