BFA Creative Writing

You have entered a rare space: one of only about 30 undergraduate BFA in Creative Writing programs in the country and the only one with a multi-faceted literary arts center. The BFA Program combined with Watershed Lit provides you with a unique opportunity to examine the craft of literary art and explore all the ways you can develop skills in demand in the job marketplace. No other program boasts its own significant book festival, an independent press, a daily online poetry anthology, a center for international writers, a project focused on the teaching of writing, and two highly regarded literary journals. Meanwhile, you are learning from and workshopping with working-artists and industry professionals.