About Creative Writing
There are a variety of ways to experience the creative writing program at Salem State outside of the classroom. The Writers Series invites noted authors of short stories, biography, poetry, poetry, memoir and essays to share their work at free readings throughout the academic year. Enjoy Red Skies, the student-produced e-zine, or Soundings East, the student-edited, nationally distributed literary magazine. Each year, the creative writing program celebrates its own with an undergraduate reading, a graduate student reading, and a faculty/staff reading of original works.
Interested in studying Creative Writing? Learn more about the English department and the creative writing concentration.
Writers Series with Susan Muaddi Daraj
Wednesday, September 24, 7:30 pm
Award-winning writer Susan Muaddi Darraj is the first guest of the fall 2025 Writers series. A writer of books for adults and children, she won an American Book Award, two Arab American Book Awards, and a Maryland State Arts Council Independent Artists Award. In 2018, she was named a USA Artists Ford Fellow.