The Writer's Life at Hollins University


Welcome to the The Writer's Life, a site devoted to providing a glimpse of what it's like to live and work at the historic campus of Hollins University, home to the Jackson Center for Creative Writing. 

Since its creation more than 50 years ago, the Creative Writing program continues to fulfill the goals of its founder, Louis D. Rubin, Jr.:  To nurture and encourage the finest writers in the nation. With a roster of noteworthy alums and publications too weighty to fit here, it's no wonder the Creative Writing program inspires such praise as "pound for pound the most productive writing program in America," (from Creative Writing in America).

So stick around, find out who we are, what we've been up to—we might be just what you've been looking for.


Hollins Graduate Program in Creative Writing: Fifty Years of Helping Writers Find Their Way.



News & Announcements

  • Meighan Sharp '11 Meighan Sharp '11 has a poem entitled "Habitats" forthcoming in the 2010 edition of Best New Poets edited by Claudia Emerson.
    Posted Aug 13, 2010 8:04 AM by joseph hasinger
  • Brianna McPherson '11 Brianna McPherson '11 has an essay, "Fiction Writers Have it Easy," forthcoming in the inaugural issue of Mason's Road.
    Posted May 12, 2010 8:54 PM by joseph hasinger
  • Matthew Williams '12 Matthew Williams '12 has a poem entitled "Eulogy for the Method" forthcoming in the 2010 edition of Best New Poets edited by Claudia Emerson.
    Posted Aug 13, 2010 8:02 AM by joseph hasinger
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Readings & Events

Download a PDF of the complete Fall 2010 Reading & Lecture Series.

Book Lovers' Guide


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