Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing

Kirstie E. Class of 2018, Military Veteran

Develop advanced creative writing skills in fiction, literary nonfiction, poetry, and screenwriting with the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. You’ll be guided through a final project consisting of a publishable thesis in the area you’ve chosen as your specialty. The program is excellent preparation for a professional career in writing, publishing, or filmmaking, and is an essential academic qualification if you plan to teach writing at the college or university level.

You’ll work with experienced and published writers on our faculty team to learn writing for fiction, poetry, literary nonfiction, and screenwriting. Your teachers will guide you in refining your own creative practice and in achieving academic success. You’ll contribute to the publication of the student literary journal, the GNU, and will participate in seminars that foster creative and critical debate.

Program Learning Outcomes

• Evaluate various aesthetic theories of fiction, literary nonfiction, poetry, or screenwriting.
• Formulate practical and theoretical models of teaching and learning the writing of fiction, literary nonfiction, poetry, and screenwriting.
• Critique specific works of literature and screenwriting.
• Develop publishable-quality writing in fiction, literary nonfiction, poetry, or screenwriting.
• Evaluate different literary formats.
• Implement craft principles of plot, characterization, style, point of view, narrative technique, and language in the creation of fiction, literary nonfiction, poetry, and screenwriting.

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