Art of Writing cultivates and supports the craft of writing at UC Berkeley.
Our seminars, workshops, tutoring programs, and events build a collaborative writing community across the disciplines, and approach writing as a teachable art.
"Fictions that beat with life, sentences that stayed with me like sand between my toes, plotlines that depicted the full spectrum of human emotions, from grief to grandeur." — Evangeline Lim chronicles the experiences of three Art of Writing undergraduates at online magazines and a local book publisher.
The Arts & Humanities division recently profiled Art of Writing director and Rhetoric associate professor Ramona Naddaff. She discusses why she created Art of Writing, how she thoughtfully incorporates AI into her courses, and what exactly "Rhetoric" means.
Mikaela O’Brien developed her podcast On the Memoir though a 2025 AoW audio workshop, and continued to explore the genre through reading and memoir-writing. Hear her conversation with author Roxanne Gay and professor Elizabeth Abel.
