Homed at Wesleyan University, the Center’s classes, events, projects, and internships teach students how the pursuit of knowledge and artistic practice can co-exist, both in the university and beyond it. We believe that, in order for creative writing and criticism to thrive, its practitioners must look both within the university and beyond it, to the many different publics they can serve. The Center’s classes and extra-curricular initiatives model how creative writing and criticism can reach readers of many different backgrounds—readers who can take pleasure in every possible form, genre, and medium, from literary criticism to children’s literature, from translated fiction to audiobooks.