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Exercise Creative Thought
The Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing at Miami University combines an intensive writing practice with the critical thinking skills developed through literary analysis and interpretation. As a Creative Writing major, you’ll engage deeply with fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction while building strong communication skills, creative flexibility, and the ability to interpret complex ideas. This undergraduate Creative Writing program also integrates literature courses to enrich your craft and prepare you for diverse writing careers or graduate study.
Join a Distinguished Miami Legacy
Participate in an increasingly global curriculum and outlook. Our 8 full-time creative writing program faculty, over 200 undergraduate majors and minors, and 20-25 graduate students take part in fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, and screenwriting workshops led by award-winning, actively publishing faculty writers.
Curriculum and Courses for Our Program
Prominent and emergent authors come to campus each year to visit classes and give readings and craft talks. Some of the new emphases in the program include translation, live performance, and writing for digital media. A senior capstone in creative writing gives students the opportunity to hone ambitious writing projects.
- ENG 226 Introduction to Creative Writing: Short Fiction and Poetry
- ENG 311 Reading for Creative Writing: Contemporary Literature
- ENG 321 The Literary Marketplace
- ENG 423 Advanced Creative Writing Nonfiction Workshop
Why Choose Miami Univerity’s Creative Writing Program:
Program Highlights Include:
- Fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and screenwriting workshops led by award-winning faculty writers who are well-published, widely networked, and deeply committed to teaching and individual mentorship.
- New offerings on translation, live performance, and writing for digital media.
- Editorial experience working with campus literary magazines, as well as for-credit internships with literary presses and publishers.
- Literary Marketplace course focusing on the business side of the literary life.
- Opportunities to apprentice with creative writing faculty on individualized creative projects and honors theses.
- Campus visits by prominent and emerging authors, as well as professionals from across the publishing industry.
Creative Writing Learning Outcomes
- Written Communication: Demonstrates awareness of audience and familiarity with generic and disciplinary conventions;
- Creative Thinking: Demonstrates evidence of an imaginative and synthetic artistic practice; articulates reasons for and consequences of creative decisions;
- Critical Thinking: Analyzes, interprets, and makes evidenced claims about peer texts in a manner that demonstrates consciousness of student’s own perspective and awareness of the context in which claims are presented;
- Reading: Demonstrates competence in identifying generic and stylistic strategies and conventions, mustering textual evidence for claims, and contextualizing readings within a broader field of practice
Miami has a very cool creative writing program, which is very experimental and pushes your boundaries. I’ve really appreciated the general mindset of “you know the rules; here’s how to break them!
Delaney Heisterkamp ’20
Opportunities in the Department of English
Research
Considering a career in research and scholarship? English students routinely complete advanced critical and creative research projects, with many earning Undergraduate Summer Scholarships, Dean Scholarships, Departmental Honors, and Geoffrion Scholarships through Miami University’s Humanities Center.
Study Abroad
The Department of English offers a distinctive London summer school study-abroad program and collaborates on January Term (J-Term) programs in Florence and Paris, providing students with international academic and cultural experiences across Europe.
Awards and Scholarships
Generous donor endowments enable the English Department to provide scholarships, awards, and financial support for English majors and minors across the university. These opportunities recognize student achievement in literature, linguistics, creative writing, and professional writing, as well as accomplishments at specific academic stages and in specialized areas of study.
Facts and Stats
Your college experience here will be one of the most exciting times of your life. To make sure of this, we’ll provide you with a powerful support system.
First-to-second year retention
Miami University Data
Among Public Universities in the United States for Four-Year Graduation Rate (and No. 1 in Ohio)
The Chronicle of Higher Education Almanac
Public university in the U.S. for long-term career success
LinkedIn Best Colleges 2025
Admission and Aid
Explore what it means to be a college student at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where students prepare to go anywhere and everywhere. We’ll be here to help every step of the way as you prepare for college admission, enrollment, and success.
Contact Us
Undergraduate Admission
513-529-2531
[email protected]
Department of English
Gabriele Bechtel, Ph.D.
Lead Departmental Advisor
Harris Hall 134
Oxford, OH 45056
[email protected]
513-529-5221