The Center for the Literary Arts is pleased to announce the WashU Creative Practice Workshop. This interdisciplinary workshop will provide an opportunity for WashU faculty across various fields to collaborate, produce, and share work, while also providing a semester leave for individual scholars.
 

Meet our Fall 2024 Creative Practice Workshop Fellows

Purpose of the WashU Creative Practice Workshop

• To provide greater support for faculty who create work in the literary arts or related creative practice fields. The CPW will be open to all Arts & Sciences tenure-track and tenured faculty with a creative literary practice that is meaningfully connected to their teaching or research, including creative writers, translators, and other scholars and artists working with text (in visual arts, performing arts, music, etc).
• To enable the CLA to be an important contributor to an increased spirit of collaboration and community across departments and disciplines at WashU by providing a shared physical and intellectual environment for literary arts and creative practice activities.
• To make known the work of WashU faculty through interaction between members of the CPW, as well as external writers and visitors connected to the CLA.

Call for Applications – Spring 2026

The WashU Creative Practice Workshop is an interdisciplinary workshop that provides an opportunity for WashU creative practice faculty across various fields to collaborate, produce, and share work, while also providing a semester leave and dedicated workspace for individual scholars in creative practice to work on particular projects.

The WashU Center for the Literary Arts in Arts & Sciences is pleased to offer a number of opportunities to become members of the WashU Creative Practice Workshop during the fall and spring of each academic year.

Those accepted into the WashU Creative Practice Workshop will be in residence at the Center for the Literary Arts for the designated semester and will be relieved of all teaching and administrative duties for that semester.

The deadline for applications to participate in the Spring 2026 workshop is March 17, 2025.

Benefits of WashU Creative Practice Workshop

• One full semester of relief from teaching and service so that the members of the WashU Creative Practice Workshop can devote their time to an extensive creative project
• Funds for teaching replacement to the home department/s of the members of the WashU Creative Practice Workshop
• An intensive, interdisciplinary intellectual/creative environment in which the members of the WashU Creative Practice Workshop can share their work in a collaborative, supportive, and enriching intellectual/creative/academic space

Requirements

Members of the WashU Creative Practice Workshop, during the course of their semester of residency, must:

• actively participate in the WashU Creative Practice Workshop and share their creative work
• attend public workshops of other fellows and at least one other public event sponsored by the CLA
• submit a short report giving an account of their activities at the end of their semester of residency

Eligibility

All tenured and tenure-track faculty of Arts & Sciences at Washington University are eligible to apply to the WashU Creative Practice Workshop.

How to Apply

Applications must include:

• Faculty Fellow Application Cover Sheet 
• A project proposal containing the following information:         
  • A description not to exceed 800 words of the applicant’s creative project, which should discuss what the project entails, and what the applicant hopes to accomplish during the semester of residency at the WashU Creative Practice Workshop
  • A statement not to exceed 500 words that explains the project’s relevance to the larger community of creative practitioners at Washington University, impact of the project, and its potential contributions to the WashU Creative Practice Workshop and the collective life at the Center for the Literary Arts
• A current CV
• One letter of recommendation by a faculty member in support of the application
  • This letter can be from either a member of the WashU faculty or from an external faculty person familiar with the applicant’s creative work. Letters can be sent by email to literaryarts@wustl.edu. 

The entire application can be submitted via email to literaryarts@wustl.edu. 

Winners will be chosen by a selection committee consisting of members of the Advisory Committee of the Center for the Literary Arts.