Spring 2020 Deadline Reminders and Course Updates

Deadline Reminders

• Friday, November 22, 2019, 11:59 pm
  Applications to apply to the creative writing concentration are due. Interested English majors must be second semester juniors in fall 2019 to apply by this deadline. Applications must consist of 15-20 pages of prose (including fiction, personal narrative, creative non-fiction or playwriting) and/or poetry writing. Submit your application via the Creative Writing Concentration Application Form.
   
• Sunday, January 5, 2020, 11:59 pm
  Writing samples for all spring creative writing courses are due. Submit your writing sample via the Writing Sample Application Form for Barnard Creative Writing Courses.
   
• Thursday, January 30, 2020, 3:00 pm
  • Creative writing concentrators who are writing their senior project must contact Nia Judelson in order to get permission to register for ENGL BC3996 Creative Writing Special Project.
  • All other Special Project and Independent Study application forms must be completed, signed, and turned in Sarah Pasadino in the English Department Office (not the Office of the Registrar).
     
• Friday, April 24, 2020, 11:59 pm
  Applications to apply to the creative writing concentration are due. Interested English majors must be second semester juniors in spring 2020 to apply by this deadline. Applications must consist of 15-20 pages of prose (including fiction, personal narrative, creative non-fiction or playwriting) and/or poetry writing. Submit your application via the Creative Writing Concentration Application Form.

Course Updates

• The full list of spring 2020 courses requiring special enrollment procedures is now live.
   
• In spring 2020, the English Department will be giving its first 1000-level literature course, ENGL BC1982 American Fiction. First-year students are particularly welcome in this course.