Editing Brown University (section)

===Writing programs===
Writing at Brown—fiction, non-fiction, poetry, playwriting, screenwriting, electronic writing, mixed media, and the undergraduate writing proficiency requirement—is catered for by various centers and degree programs, and a faculty that has long included nationally and internationally known authors. The undergraduate concentration in literary arts offers courses in fiction, poetry, screenwriting, literary hypermedia, and translation. Graduate programs include the fiction and poetry MFA writing programs in the literary arts department and the MFA playwriting program in the theatre arts and performance studies department. The non-fiction writing program is offered in the English department. Screenwriting and cinema narrativity courses are offered in the departments of literary arts and modern culture and media. The undergraduate writing proficiency requirement is supported by the Writing Center.

====Author prizewinners====
Alumni authors take their degrees across the spectrum of degree concentrations, but a gauge of the strength of writing at Brown is the number of major national writing prizes won. To note only winners since the year 2000: [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]]-winners [[Jeffrey Eugenides]] '82 (2003), [[Marilynne Robinson]] '66 (2005), and [[Andrew Sean Greer]] '92 (2018); British [[Orange Prize]]-winners [[Marilynne Robinson]] '66 (2009) and [[Madeline Miller]] '00 (2012); [[Pulitzer Prize for Drama]]-winners [[Nilo Cruz]] '94 (2003), [[Lynn Nottage]] '86 (twice, 2009, 2017), [[Quiara Alegría Hudes]] '04 (2012), [[Ayad Akhtar]] '93 (2013), and [[Jackie Sibblies Drury]] MFA '04 (2019); [[Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography|Pulitzer Prize for Biography]]-winners [[David Kertzer]] '69 (2015) and [[Benjamin Moser]] '98 (2020); [[Pulitzer Prize|Pulitzer Prize for Journalism]]-winners [[James Risen]] '77 (2006), [[Gareth Cook]] '91 (2005), [[Tony Horwitz]] '80 (1995), [[Usha Lee McFarling]] '89 (2007), [[David Rohde]] '90 (1996), [[Kathryn Schulz]] '96 (2016), and [[Alissa J. Rubin]] '80 (2016); [[Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction]]-winner [[James Forman Jr.]] '88 (2018); [[Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction|Pulitzer Prize for History]]-winner [[Marcia Chatelain]] PhD '08 (2021); [[Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction|Pulitzer Prize for Criticism]]-winner [[Salamishah Tillet]] MAT '97 (2022); and [[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]]-winner [[Peter Balakian]] PhD '80 (2016)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lutts |first=Chloe |date=2006-07-16 |title=Four Brown alums win 2006 Pulitzers |url=https://www.browndailyherald.com/2006/07/16/four-brown-alums-win-2006-pulitzers/ |access-date=2021-03-29 |website=Brown Daily Herald |language=en-US |archive-date=May 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506091149/https://www.browndailyherald.com/2006/07/16/four-brown-alums-win-2006-pulitzers/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Ryan |first=Cate |date=2019-04-16 |title=University alums win four Pulitzer Prizes |url=https://www.browndailyherald.com/2019/04/16/university-alums-win-four-pulitzer-prizes/ |access-date=2021-03-29 |website=Brown Daily Herald |language=en-US |archive-date=May 31, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200531200257/https://www.browndailyherald.com/2019/04/16/university-alums-win-four-pulitzer-prizes/ |url-status=live}}</ref>