Creative Writing: Events

Special Events:

Student Creative Writing Contest- (Fall semester)
Enrolled students at Paradise Valley Community college are encouraged to submit one piece of creative writing in four genres: Poetry, Short Story, Creative Non-Fiction and One-Act Play. Judged contest. Cash awards. Entry forms available on campus.

Student Creative Writing Student Reading (Spring semester)
Winners of the PVCC Creative writing contest will read an excerpt from their work.

Paradise Review: A Literary Anthology
Winners of the PVCC Creative writing contest will be published in the annual literary anthology.

Visiting Writer and Scholar Master Class
Writers and Artists of national distinction give a reading/lecture presentation. The writer/scholar will then conduct a writing Master Class in which discussion on the creative process as well as various writing techniques takes place. Open to the public.

Voices from the Desert–Arizona Writers' Reading
Various writers from the Southwest give readings and hold discussions. Open to the public.

Writer’s Guild–Student Group
Student club devoted to the creation and critique of student creative writing.

PVCC Creative Writing Special Collections
Visit the Special Collections bookcase located in the North end of the PVCC library. Signed books which are dedicated to.

PVCC Creative Writing Students are on display.
For example, see the dedication written by Rita Dove, former Poet Laureate of the United States and 1987 Pulitzer Winner; Norman Dubie, who received the Bess Hokin Award of the Modern Poetry Association, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. His poems have appeared in many magazines, including The Paris
Review, The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, Antaeus, The Antioch Review, Field, and Poetry;Jan Beatty, Author of Mad River and Boneshaker; Winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize; Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry; host and producer of Prosody, a public radio show on NPR affiliate WYEP-FM featuring the work of national writers; Judith Vollmer, Author of The Door Open to the Fire; Winner of the Cleveland State Poetry Prize, Level Green, Winner of the Brittingham Prize in Poetry; Co-editor of 5 AM and others.

for those students interested in a variety of creative writing and artistic activities;
Associate of Fine Arts (AFA) Certificates:
Created by a group of working artists, writers and musicians, the Associate of Fine Arts (AFA) degree is designed for students planning avocations ns in Creative Writing, Theatre, Visual Arts, Music, Dance, and/or Cinema. The Associate of Fine Arts (AFA) certificates have a common core of course work with specialized study in specific areas. The core program enables students to integrate academic and artistic disciplines as well as offering an enriched cultural experience and foundation in aesthetics. In the final phase of the program, graduates are expected to demonstrate proficiency in one artistic discipline