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The John Fowles Center for Creative Writing promotes and advances the discipline of creative writing in all its aspects: fiction, poetry, drama, creative non-fiction and film. The Center offers students and non-students alike an opportunity to gain a greater appreciation for the "written word" and those who write it. Each year a distinguished group of national and international writers is invited to Chapman University, making access to those writers available not only to the Chapman community, but to the Orange County and, by extension, the Southern California community as well.
Now into its second decade, The John Fowles Center for Creative Writing has invited such inter/national writers to Chapman as: Salman Rushdie, Luisa Valenzuela, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gioconda Belli, Alicia Partnoy, Raymond Federman, Steve Katz, Ronald Sukenick, Raúl Zurita, Elizabeth George, Ralph Berry, David Matlin, Charles Bernstein, Larry McCaffery, Alicia Kozameh, Fanny Howe, David Antin, and Willis Barnstone just to name a few.
 Upcoming Events
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Carlos Franz - February 20
Carlos Franz studied law at the University of Chile (Santiago), graduating with first honors in 1981. He was a fellow member of the literary workshop of José Donoso, in Santiago. Several of his short stories have been published in Chilean, Latin American and international anthologies, like Whistler In the Night (Plume, New York, 2002). He is a regular contributor to several Spanish and Latin American newspapers and magazines
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Marcio Souza - March 12
Márcio Souza's first novel, Galvez Emperor’s Acre, was a huge critical success, becoming an international phenomenon. Other of his novels, essays and dramas have been launched with the same impact. Márcio Souza participated in many international meetings of literature and has been a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Currently, he is writing a tetralogy Chronicles of Grand Para and Rio Negro
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Alicia Kozameh - March 5
Alicia Kozameh is an Argentine author and former political prisoner during the last military dictatorship in her country. She is the author of the novels such as, Pasos bajo el agua (Steps Under Water), a fictionalized account of her experience in prison; 259 saltos and uno inmortal (259 Leaps, the Last Immortal), inspired by her life as a political exile.
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Sergio Chejfec - March 26
Sergio Chejfec lived in Venezuela from 1990-2005, where he published Nueva sociedad, a journal of politics, culture and the social sciences. He currently lives in New York City and teaches in the Creative Writing in Spanish program at NYU. Chejfec has written novels, essays and a poetry collection. Among his works, one can mention Lenta biografía, Los planetas, Boca de Lobo and Los incompletes.
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Luisa Valenzuela - April 16
Luisa Valenzuela is a post-'Boom' novelist and short story writer. Her writing is characterized by an experimental, avant-garde style which questions hierarchical social structures from a feminist perspective. She is best known for her work written in response to the dictatorship of the 1970s in Argentina.
2012 Speakers
 February 20 Carlos Franz- March 5 Alicia Kozameh
- March 12 Marcio Souza
- March 26 Sergio Chejfec
- April 16 Luisa Valenzuela
- April 23 Bogdan Suceava
- Sneak Peak at Spring 2013 Speakers!
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