Creative Writing
Become an accomplished creative writer
With this focus for your English program, you can develop your writing across several genres:
- Poetry
- Screenplay
- Short story
- Creative nonfiction
- Fiction
- Playwriting
- Writing for children/young adults
You will get individual attention from professors dedicated to taking your writing to the next level.
Career options
This is a pre-professional, 33-hour degree, designed to prepare you to pursue an advanced degree – Master of Fine Arts degree or a PhD, for example. Some graduates of Missouri State’s creative writing program go on to teach English and creative writing at the college level.
Brett Ralph reads from his book "Black Sabbatical."