Creative Writing, BFA
Anything is possible in the worlds that you create.
Creative Writing – Bachelor of Fine Arts
Creative Writing, BFA
Offered as a Bachelor of Fine Arts Major
The BFA in Creative Writing at SOU is a structured sequence of workshops and seminars with fiction, poetry, and non-fiction at its core. Electives can be chosen from a wide range of relevant fields including songwriting, playwriting, digital composition, comics, and more, giving students the opportunity to interact with visual artists, musicians, digital innovators, and others within the larger arts complex at SOU. The Emergent Forms reading series brings in different writers each quarter (past guests include Lyn Hejinian, Douglas Kearney, Joshua Clover, Dodie Bellamy, Clark Coolidge, Sandra Simonds, Rodrigo Toscano, Chris Nealon, Catherine Wagner, and many other stars of the contemporary writing scene). Seniors collaborate to produce Main Squeeze, the student literary magazine. The BFA degree culminates in a capstone project that showcases students’ work and creates a powerful centerpiece for their portfolios as they move on to the next phases of their careers.
Degree Fit
Program Preparation
The BFA in Creative Writing is designed for students who have a inner passion for writing and want to take their skills to the next level. If writing is your one true love, then this is the place for you to flourish..
Degree Roadmap
Through the course of the Creative Writing program, students learn to develop their own styles, to communicate original ideas clearly, and to present their understanding of themselves and the larger world through cogent, expressive writing in a variety of forms. They study established traditions as well as emerging content and methods. Students are encouraged to be curious, adaptive, and flexible to develop lifelong habits to generate good work and remain current in a changing market.
Capstone
The capstone is the culmination of the BFA degree where students create a body of written work, drawing on readings, research, and experience with close faculty mentorship and critique with the class cohort. The result is a polished portfolio piece that serves as a springboard to the next step, be it the professional world or graduate school.
Career Path
Become a Professional
Career opportunities for a Creative Writing degree:
- Copywriter
- Content Writer
- Biographer
- Blogger
- Game Story Developer
- Novelist
- Playwright
- Poet
- Screenwriter
- Speechwriter
Salary Range
$42,000- $91,000
*Median Salary of $61,240
*Based on National Average
Future Success
Abbigail Rosewood
BFA in Creative Writing, 2012
Abbigail is a freelance writer currently living in New York City. Her work has been published in literary journals online and in print, including The Adirondack Review, Columbia Journal, Green Hills Literary Lantern, and The Missing Slate.
Shannon Luders-Manuel
BA in English Lit, Creative Writing Minor, 2007
Shannon is a freelance writer and editor living in Los Angeles. Her work has been featured in such publications as the New York Times, Essence.com, and The Los Angeles Review of Books, among others. She is also the author of Being Biracial: Where Our Secret Worlds Collide: Educators’ Guide.
Amy Accongio
BFA in Creative Writing, 2016
Amy is currently a graduate assistant teaching two sections of Introduction to Creative Writing at Miami University and working on editing her thesis, a book of multi-modal poetry and prose that explores issues of state power, identity, and feminine experience.
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SOU Creative Writing Program
1250 Siskiyou Blvd.
Ashland, OR 97520
541.552.6101
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