The M.A. in Creative Writing Program provides interdisciplinary, individualized work in creative writing and contemporary studies. It prepares writers to continue their creative work; to teach creative writing, English, humanities or contemporary studies; to work with mixed- and multi-media, and community arts.

Course Requirements
The M.A. in creative writing requires thirty hours of course work to be distributed among required courses, restricted elective courses, and cognate courses as follows:

Required Courses (12 hours)

• CRTW 522-529 Writing Workshop (click here for detailed workshop descriptions) - sections offered in Poetry, Fiction, Creative Non-Fiction, Translation, Mixed Media, Sound Poetry, Performance Poetry, Lyric Essay, Hypermedia, and others; may be repeated for credit with different topic (9 hrs)
• ENGL693 Master's Writing Project (3 hrs)

Restricted Elective Courses (9 hours)
Three courses from the following list. Other literature courses with permission of advisor.

• LITR526 Studies in African-American Literature to 1945 (3 hrs)
• LITR566 Studies in 20th-Century British Fiction (3 hrs)
• LITR567 Studies in 20th-Century Irish Literature (3 hrs)
• LITR576 Studies in 20th-Century American Fiction (3 hrs)
• LITR580 Studies in Contemporary Literary Trends (3 hrs)

Cognate Courses (9 hours)
Nine hours selected in consultation with the graduate coordinator. Courses outside the English Department, from any area of contemporary studies - art, foreign language literature, music, women's studies, theater arts, history, philosophy, etc.

Graduate Student Handbook
The Graduate Student Handbook is available as a pdf file from the English Department Graduate Studies website. Included in the handbook are specific instructions for the Creative Writing Master's Writing Project/Portfolio and forms including the Contract for Master's Writing Project and the Graduate Program of Study for the MA in Creative Writing.