Master of Arts - English - Literary Studies - Creative

The Master of Arts program in Creative Writing offers students the opportunity to take graduate-level workshops in multiple genres with professional writers developing not only multi-genre fluency within their own work, but also building pedagogical skills and credentials within the creative writing classroom.

While offering discussion and feedback on student work and addressing relevant elements of craft and technique, graduate-level workshops in creative writing also provide broad readings within the “state of the art,” and offer opportunities to engage with current conversations in aesthetic and historical contexts, narrative theory, poetics, and critical theory. Students can also take advantage of numerous professional development opportunities in terms of publishing courses, mentorship in the job application process, and editorial/literary organization experience through working with the South Dakota Review, and Astrophil Press.