The BFA in creative writing at UNCW

UNCW's Department of Creative Writing unites a community of passionate, dedicated writers who believe that the creation of art is a pursuit valuable to self and culture. Our faculty fosters a rigorous yet supportive environment in which writers can grow as artists and individuals. The department devotes itself to the pursuit of excellence in writing through an informed application of craft. We value versatility, and we encourage writers to explore aesthetics and methods across genre lines.

We offer degree programs leading to the Master of Fine Arts and the Bachelor of Fine Arts in addition to a minor in creative writing. Like the MFA degree, the BFA combines studio workshops in creative writing with courses in literature, aesthetics, and the other arts. Our primary genres are fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. We also make available classes in editing and publishing through our Publishing Laboratory and in screenwriting through the Department of Film Studies.

We encourage our graduate students to become "people of letters," and our goals for undergraduate students are no less ambitious. We offer a broad liberal arts education that fosters creativity, exercises communication skills, sharpens analytical perception, and encourages informed, integrated cultural viewpoints.

Our BFA program provides aspiring writers an apprenticeship in writing, informed by the close study of literature among a community of professional writers. A studio-academic experience in writing fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction, our BFA program unites passionate people who believe the creation of art is a pursuit valuable to self and culture. The BFA degree provides training in the art of writing through the study of aesthetics, the literary tradition, the craft and profession of publishing, and liberal arts subjects relevant to each student's needs and goals.

Educational goals include:

     •  Providing a rigorous apprenticeship in the art and craft of creating literature

     •  Developing students' critical faculties, their understanding of literary forms, and their aesthetic judgment

     •  Building a strong intellectual foundation in the historical literary tradition, grounding practice of the art of writing in an understanding of how that art has been practiced by the greatest classic and modern authors

     •  Constructing a thoughtful interdisciplinary foundation for understanding creative writing's relationship to other arts and scholarly areas

Our department regularly invites prominent writers to campus for readings and lectures.

If you have questions about the BFA program, contact

Lavonne Adams, BFA coordinator, or

Megan Hubbard, departmental administrator

Department of Creative Writing

University of North Carolina at Wilmington

601 South College Road

Wilmington, NC 28403–5938

Phone 910.962–7063