• All Hampshire students are writers, as courses require substantial writing in many varied forms. Hampshire is one of relatively few colleges offering writing as a major, and students can concentrate on writing directly, or as it relates to other interests. Those who concentrate in creative writing enroll in small, intensive workshops and seminars in poetry, fiction, playwriting, creative memoir, and literary journalism.
  • Students are constantly asked to write and rewrite, receiving detailed critiques from faculty and peers.
  • Hampshire's robust writing culture extends across the curriculum, as students are invited to produce voiced, lyrical, vigorous writing in every discipline.
  • Hampshire's committee system facilitates the cross-disciplinary faculty supervision of students exploring unexpected combinations of form and content: plays about mountain top removal, poems about atom bomb testing, novels exploring theoretical linguistics, and histories as narrative.