Creative Writing
Creative Writing offers gateways into new worlds and possibilities as well as practical communication and language skills. You’ll learn how to become a multi-genre writer, explore opportunities in editing and publication, and become an active member of our literary community.
11:1
Student-to-Faculty Ratio
Students who minor in creative writing are equipped to pursue the following careers (and much more):
- Digital and Print Content Writer
- Digital and Print Copywriter
- Social Media Manager
- Email Marketing Specialist
- Editor or Editorial Assistant
- Arts Administrator
- Creative Director
- Journalist
- Author
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- Write and revise in multiple genres. Our curriculum offers writing intensive courses in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, playwriting, and hybrid writing, with a focus on writing process, scholarship, and revision.
- Become a published writer, editor, and designer. Contribute to, edit, and publish our “Best-of-Show” award-winning student-run newspaper The Clarion or the literary and arts journal Chiaroscuro.
- Attend or plan a national writers’ conference. Assist in planning and managing the Looking Glass Rock Writers’ Conference, a nationally recognized writers’ workshop, or apply to attend as a workshop participant, where you will work with world-renowned award-winning faculty.
- Participate in our literary community. Plan and perform a reading of your original writing on campus. Meet and learn from working writers and scholars through our West Lecture and Visiting Poets and Writers Series.
