Creative Writing
*** New Requirements This Year!!! ***

Students explore writing techniques through practice, group discussion, and individual critiquing sessions with faculty. Emphasis is placed on developing a keen awareness of the sound, shape, and connotative possibilities of the written word. Various types of creative writing are explored, with an emphasis on poetry. Applicants should be aware that class discussions are on a collegiate level and may contain mature subjects. Fifteen students are accepted.

ATTENTION: The application deadline DOES NOT apply to creative writing students. Instead, please bring your application and all required materials with you to your audition, even if your audition is after the application deadline. No applications or materials will be accepted after your audition.

1) As soon as possible, call the Oklahoma Arts Institute office at (405) 321-9000 to schedule attendance at one of the audition master classes. Audition spaces fill quickly.

2) Bring the following material to your audition. Please clearly mark each page with your name.
* Four copies of a complete application.
* Four copies of a typed autobiographical paragraph.
* Four copies of up to five (5) typed pages of creative writing, including any combination of poetry, fiction and personal essay

Audition Dates

Oklahoma City
Saturday, January 19
Oklahoma City Museum of Art
415 Couch Drive

Enid
Sunday, January 27
Scribner’s Gallery & Studio
124 S. Independence Street

Ada
Saturday, February 16
East Central University
Faust Hall
1100 E. 14th Street

Tulsa
Sunday, February 24
Philbrook Museum of Art
Williams Conference Room
2727 S. Rockford Road

At the Audition:

Please arrive early to check in. Bring a white pad ( 8 ½” x 11,” lined or unlined), a pocket dictionary, and a pencil or black ink pen. No spiral notebooks, small pads, or colored paper allowed. Don't forget to bring 4 copies of your application and other required materials detailed above. The audition is a timed writing exercise based on your impression of artwork in a museum.

Judging Criteria: