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BA in Creative Writing

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USD 50,500 / per year *

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* tuition 2020-21

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Thorough. Challenging. Substantive.

These are some terms independent reviewers have used to describe Susquehanna’s creative writing program, one of the most rigorous and successful undergraduate programs in the nation.

When The Princeton Review recently recognized Susquehanna University as one of the nation’s best institutions for undergraduates, surveyed Susquehanna students pointed to a variety of academic offerings that make Susquehanna stand out, including the university’s “top-notch” creative writing program.

We’d add another to the list: Vibrant.

Since one in 12 students at Susquehanna is a creative writing major, we have dedicated creative writing housing, poetry slams, seven student-run publications, and frequent late-night literary gatherings.

From Day One, your work will be critiqued by professional, published authors — who are also your professors — and you’ll have plenty of chances to interact one-on-one with them.

With separate introductory courses in poetry, creative nonfiction, and fiction, you’ll build your unique approach to writing on a strong foundation. Add to this: the opportunity to take courses in performance and activist writing, graphic non-fiction, and screen-writing. You’ll also take intermediate and advanced creative writing courses along with literature courses that teach writers how to read for craft and technique.

Writing is a skill valued around the world and in all professions. Our program lays the foundation for a lifelong career in fields like advertising, corporate communications, graphic design, editing, education, journalism, law, religious ministry, or technical writing.

Our alumni network of more than 700 trained writers stands ready to help you make valuable connections in any number of fields. We also were recently ranked one of the top writing programs in Pennsylvania, thanks in part to graduate employment rates and earnings.

Many of our writers choose to attend graduate school after Susquehanna, and almost all who apply are admitted and receive generous teaching assistantships.

We welcome your questions and will gladly put you in touch with faculty and students so that you can learn more about the creative writing major at the Writers Institute—the hub for all things creative writing-related at Susquehanna University!

Here are just a few of the fields in which recent creative writing graduates have found jobs, along with a selection of employers:

• Advertising—Simon and Schuster; Warfel Construction
• Client Relations—Ingram Content Group
• Copywriting—World Wrestling (WWE); Virtucom Group
• Corporate Communications—Susquehanna Health consortium; Vanguard; Compucom
• Graphic Design—Pixar
• Editing—Marvel Comics; In Touch magazine; Prentice Hall; Harpercollins; Thieme Publishers; Nature
• English Teacher Abroad—Shane English School, China; English Academy, Indonesia
• Fact Checker—Us magazine
• Fiction Writer—Galatea app
• Instructor—Hollins University; University of Virginia
• Journalism (sports editor)—Finger Lakes Community Newspapers
• Lawyer—Cureton Clark (NJ)
• Legal editor—Agora, Inc.
• Marketing—Language Workshop Center for Children; Casemate Publishers
• Ministry—Unitarian Church in Summit, NJ; Mahatma Gandhi Center at JMU
• Professor—University of North Dakota; Mississippi State University; University of Indianapolis
• Social Media/Publicity—Penguin Young Readers, Makenna Held LLC
• Student Life Staff—Ursinus College; Susquehanna University
• Teacher—Raritan-Bridgewater High; Lincoln Middle; Mountain Rose Academy; Peace Corps
• Technical Writer—Virtucom; VectorCSP

Recent graduates have enrolled in programs at:

• Arizona State University, MFA in Fiction
• Auburn University, education
• California Institute of the Arts, MFA in Poetry
• Columbia Publishing
• Emerson, MFA
• Fullbright Fellowships, France and Germany
• George Mason, MFA
• Iowa Writers Workshop, multiple graduates, fiction and poetry
• Johns Hopkins University, MFA in Fiction
• New Mexico State, MFA in Creative Writing
• New School for Public Engagement
• Portland State, MFA
• Rhode Island University, Ph.D.
• Sarah Lawrence, MFA
• Southern New Hampshire University
• Stony Brook Southampton, MFA in Writing and Literature
• Temple University-Sociology
• University of Arizona, MFA
• University of Idaho
• University of Massachusetts Boston, MA in Applied Linguistics
• University of Montana, MFA in Creative Nonfiction
• University of New Hampshire, MFA in Fiction
• University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Graduate Teaching Assistantship in Poetry
• University of Notre Dame, MFA in Poetry
• University of San Francisco, MFA in Poetry
• University of Wyoming, MFA in Nonfiction
• Yale Divinity School

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Creative Writing Portfolio Submission Guidelines:

Application to our creative writing major requires the submission of a portfolio, which will be reviewed by the faculty of the Writers Institute — the hub for all things creative writing-related at Susquehanna University.

Your portfolio can be:

• a short story
• a personal essay
• a selection of poems
• a novel excerpt
• a 4-6-panel comic
• a recorded feature of performance writing (a link to an online platform alongside a transcript),
• or a combination of these

Portfolios should be 5 to 10 double-spaced pages.Please also include a 150-word cover letter with your name, telling us what inspires your writing.

You will be able to upload your portfolio to your online applicant portal after you submit your application to Susquehanna.

Portfolio submissions received before Feb. 15 will automatically put you in the running for one of our creative writing scholarships .

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Please contact the Writers Institute if you have any questions or the Admission Office  if you have any trouble logging in to your River Hawk Portal.

We look forward to reading your creative work!