A creative writing degree is an asset in just about any career you pursue because it helps you fine-tune your skills of insightful thought and clear expression.
Our grads have opportunities in a wide variety of paths, such as reporting, editing, writing, public relations, journalism and more.
From learning about poetic forms and meters to understanding the finer points of style, the program helps you hone your skills to a sharpness that you’ll be proud to share with the world. One of the special strengths of the program is the advice you receive from professors and authors on how to navigate the often-challenging publishing world when your manuscript is complete.
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Why You’ll Love the Creative Writing Program:
- You receive one-on-one attention from professors who are published authors.
- You get a well-rounded look at the entire publishing process.
- You have opportunities to have your works published in Passages, a journal of student creative writing.
- Your work will receive close attention. For example, your senior capstone manuscript is studied and discussed for one-to-two full weeks in class, during which you receive invaluable feedback.
- When you graduate you will have a fully developed manuscript, bound and placed in our library.
- You will have opportunities to meet with published authors who come to the English program as guest speakers. Recently, we have hosted such writers as Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Dunn and Barbara Hurd.
- You and your work receive lots of artistic nurturing and coaching. That’s the value of keeping classes small.
- As a senior-level writing student you will take a capstone course, Editing One’s Own Writing, in which you work toward creating a polished series of stories or essays or a chapbook of poems.
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Reach Your Career Goals
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A Creative Writing degree is an asset in just about any career you pursue because it helps you fine-tune your skills of insightful thought and clear expression. In addition to pursuing a graduate education, among the direct career paths open to a Creative Writing graduate are:
- Reporting
- Editing
- Writing
- Public relations
- Corporate communications
- Advertising copywriting
- Journalism
- Proofreading and researching
Enhance your career advancement and knowledge by also earning:
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Professors Who Know the World of Publishing
- Professors all have published works and remain active as writers pursuing publication.
- Professors include both nonfiction writers and poets.
- Your classes are always taught by professors in the Creative Writing program, not by graduate students or teaching assistants.
- Professors enjoy mentoring students and coaching them one-on-one to draw out their skills as writers.
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Gain Real World Experience
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During your time at Ashland University, you can gain invaluable real-world experience working on The Ashland Poetry Press, Passages and River Teeth, even getting your name in print.
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Interesting Classes You May Take
- Problems in Creative Writing — Explore the development of individual style and voice in student writing through a series of prose and poetry projects.
- Writer’s Workshop: Creative Nonfiction/Fiction — Taught by professors with extensive publishing experience, this seminar course discusses the craft of writing fiction and creative nonfiction.
- Editing One’s Own Writing — Study the editing and presentation of your literary output.
- Writer’s Workshop: Poetry — Taught by professors with extensive publishing experience, this seminar course discusses the craft of writing poetry.
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Organizations for Creative Writing Majors
- Literature Club – publishes the literary magazine Passages
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