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.
Sonali Deraniyagala lost most of her close family in the Indian Ocean tsunami. She discusses her writing process — paring down prose to reflect inner truth — in a Conversation (video) with AoW Director Ramona Naddaff.
Read three award-winning student essays from Kim Voss’s Fall 2023 Art of Writing seminar, “From Berkeley to the Public: The Art of Writing about Contentious Politics.”
Lyn Hejinian was among the first faculty to teach an Art of Writing seminar, focusing on the theme of “Collaboration.” We are forever grateful to have collaborated with such an extraordinary teacher, scholar, writer, and person.