Our info sessions for college applicants have passed, but we’re still eager to hear from you. If you’re thinking of applying to the creative writing program at Pratt, feel welcome to email department chair Beth Loffreda (bloffred@pratt.edu)

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Write every day.

At Pratt, you’ll be writing from day one in a deeply personalized, joyful, transformative environment. We value a plurality of styles and approaches, and your writing practice will be at the heart of your studies as you develop your voice.

A Close-Knit, Supportive Community

A small student-to-faculty ratio, dedicated 24/7 student writing spaces, on-campus readings, and departmental social events foster an intimate and collaborative environment. Our extraordinary faculty will be both partner and mentor to you, helping you to explore, refine, reimagine, and own your talents.

A Dynamic Curriculum

Strengthen your writing practice with foundational courses in critical thinking, research, and world literature. Then dive into specialized writing electives like songwriting, journalism, and screenwriting, alongside classes in art and design and transdisciplinary minors. Your studies culminate in a book-length senior thesis project, which can take the shape of a novel, memoir, screenplay, or graphic novel, or a collection of poems, short stories, or experimental essays (or a mix of forms and images).

Hands-On Experience

Gather with your peers twice a week for intensive studios built on feedback and generative writing. You’ll also have opportunities to gain real-world experience by editing our well-established student publications, The Prattler and Ubiquitous, and by completing the Writing Lives Pathway, which prepares you for life after graduation.

Write at an art school.

Explore Other Media

Complement and enhance your writing practice with courses in other media: painting, fashion, animation, photography, and more.

Collaborate Across Disciplines

Work with student artists, filmmakers, and designers on collaborative projects. Pratt’s rich array of minors, including Art of the Book, Black Studies, Photography, Social Justice, and Teaching Writing in NYC, to name a few, allows you to build a profoundly interdisciplinary practice that enriches and distinguishes your writing.

Write in Brooklyn.

A Thriving Literary Hub

Brooklyn is home to diverse literary communities, experimental and alternative publishing houses, and nonprofits, some led by our visionary faculty. (For one example, check out the *Belladonna Collaborative.) Through courses like Community as Classroom, we help you find your people in Brooklyn and connect with NYC’s vibrant writing scene.

Write your future.

Internships and Fieldwork

Our dedicated internship coordinator will help you identify and secure internship opportunities across NYC at publishing houses, literary agencies, film and TV studios, podcast networks, newspapers and magazines, arts organizations, and community nonprofits. 

Passionate about social justice or building new writing communities? Fieldwork is a unique course offering for students who want to gain experience that a more traditional internship can’t support, such as designing a community-engagement project.

In-Class Professional Training

Our Writer as Worker course provides skills and guidance for pursuing internships while in the program and meaningful employment after graduation. Through weekly visits with guest authors, agents, editors, journalists, teachers, filmmakers, and communications experts, you’ll gain practical knowledge on how to successfully apply for jobs, grants, fellowships, and graduate school.

Dedicated Career Support for Life

Your career journey doesn’t end at graduation. Our departmental alumni coordinator and Pratt’s Center for Career and Professional Development offer lifelong support, including one-on-one strategy sessions and reviews of résumés, cover letters, and websites.

Events and Visiting Writers

Our Writer at Large program, the annual Michael Mahoney Memorial Reading, the MFA’s Writing Activisms series, and other events bring renowned writers to campus for readings, workshops, and manuscript consultations. Beyond these events, department faculty regularly invite writers to spend time with their classes. Recent guests include Ottessa Moshfegh, Ross Gay, Simone White, Layli Long Soldier, Alexander Chee, Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Michelle Tea, Asiya Wadud, Chloë Bass, Sarah Thankam Mathews, and Eugene Lim.

Our Faculty

Writing faculty members are distinguished writers, artists, and editors who are deeply committed to nurturing the potential of each student. Bringing a range of views, methods, and perspectives, they provide a rigorous and singular educational experience. See all Writing faculty and administrators.

Our Alumni

Where They’ve Worked

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• New York Public Library 
• Brooklyn Public Library
• Driftless Literary
• People Magazine
• Esquire Magazine
• Forever Magazine
• This American Life
• Eater
• The Offing
• The Columbia Journal
• Black Warrior Review
• The Baltimore Review
• The Poetry Project
• The Brooklyn Rail
• The Center for the Humanities 
• Twenty Stories Bookstore
• NO OD NY
• Upright Citizens Brigade Theater
• Arm-of-the-Sea Theater
• The Party Theater
  Saint Ann’s School
• Books Are Magic
• Belladonna*
• The New School
• Columbia University
• Montclair State University
• SUNY Albany
• University of Houston

Graduate Programs Recently Attended by Alumni

• Brown University MFA Literary Arts Program
• Columbia University MFA Writing Program
• University of Wyoming MFA Creative Writing Program
• The New School MFA Creative Writing Program
• New York University Interactive Telecommunications Program (M.P.S.)
• New York University MFA Creative Writing Program
• Brooklyn College MFA Creative Writing Program
• Syracuse University Art History Program (M.A.)

Recent Alumni Publications

• Laura Henriksen, Duvall, Shelley (Newest York, 2025)
• Anika Jade Levy, Flat Earth (Catapult Books, 2025)
• Cat Ingrid Leeches, I Wander the Earth, Hungry for Semen (Carrion Bloom Books, 2025)
• Katie Vogel, The Awakening (Bottlecap Press, 2024)
• Laura Henriksen, Laura’s Desires (Nightboat Books, 2024)
• Adrian Shirk, Heaven Is a Place on Earth (Counterpoint, 2022)
• Kate Gavino, A Career in Books (Plume, 2022)
• Phoebe Robinson, Please Don’t Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes (Tiny Reparations Books, 2021) 
• Brandi Spering, This I Can Tell You (Perennial Press, 2021)

Success Stories

From the Catalog

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