Bachelor of Fine Arts - Creative Writing

Program Description

The Writer’s Workshop (for Creative Writing majors) mission is to offer creative writing students an apprenticeship with professional writers. UNO prepares students to read closely, think critically, write professionally and find their voices in poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and screenwriting. Students will also sharpen their capacity for empathy, opening themselves to diverse cultural points of view.

Students can choose an optional concentration in one of the following:

• Creative nonfiction
• Fiction or Poetry
• Screenwriting

Students whose work is above average and who are considering doing graduate work in creative writing may apply after one Advanced Studio to pursue the BFA with Senior Thesis. The result is a book-length manuscript of original work in the student’s area of concentration (e.g. a collection of poems, a collection of short stories, a novel, a collection of essays, or a screenplay), prepared during the last year of study while working one-on-one with a WRWS faculty member. To earn this special designation on their official transcripts, candidates for the degree must take two semesters of WRWS 4990.