The Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing gives writing students the skills they need to write compelling fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and multimedia texts of the highest quality, while also preparing writers for careers in editing, publishing, and strategic workplace communication. Our innovative program emphasizes both the process of writing and the many forms a piece of writing may take. We feature a wide range of curriculum opportunities for students to hone their creative problem-solving skills and to learn how to circulate and perform their final products in a variety of print, web, audio, visual formats. Students learn the foundations of storytelling, then move through a variety of writing workshops and literature courses that help them create written, audio, and visual texts for a twenty-first century audience. Crucially, the program also emphasizes how students can apply and adapt the skills they learn to multiple professional careers in writing. Students are encouraged to explore editing and publishing opportunities through working on our print journal and multimedia website, Allium, and through internship options. The program’s emphasis on the creative process, on creative production, and on writing for digital media and the creative workplace allows students the opportunity to deepen their skills as writers and as creative entrepreneurs. Graduates of our program have gone on to careers in communications, marketing, digital media, education, editing, and publishing. Their writing has been published by a wide range of presses over the past three decades, and their work has received numerous local and national awards and fellowships. 

As a result of successfully completing program requirements, students should be able to: