University of Arizona | College of Social & Behavioral Sciences | English | BA | Creative Writing

BA

Creative Writing

Elevate your horizons with Creative Writing!

Develop your talent and hone your skills in craft, composition, revision, and creativity through our writing workshops and numerous electives.

SCHOLARSHIPS

Finance your education with help from one of our undergraduate scholarships. In 2022-2023 alone, the English Department awarded nearly $50,000 in funds.

STUDY ABROAD

Make your undergrad experience unforgettable! Explore the literary world of London in our Literature and Culture in the UK, or take coursework in Orvieto, Italy. See english.arizona.edu/study-abroad for more.

STUDENT CLUBS

Hone your passions through the immersive world of our wildcats’ undergrad clubs:

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UA Bookworms Persona UA Debate Series Creative Writing Club

INTERNSHIPS

Professionalize yourself and start networking through internships. Earn college credit with Pine Reads Review, the Sonora Review, Worlds of Words, Wildcat Writers, or others. Check out: english.arizona.edu/internships

ENGLISH HONORS

Get ready for a challenge like no other – this highly competitive program offers our most ambitious students six units of Honors credit and a thesis opportunity.

FACULTY

Our award-winning faculty have published extensively across fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, and their works include:

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The Consequences, by Manuel Muñoz (Joyce Carol Oates Prize) Currents, by Bojan Louis (American Book Award) My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me, edited by Kate Bernheimer (World Fantasy Award) Defacing the Monument, by Susan Briante (Pegasus Award) ...and more

“Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works.”

- Virginia Woolf

CAREER DEVELOPMENT

Any profession that involves collaboration (a skill taught in our workshops) and creativity requires CW majors, and our alumni have enjoyed extraordinary range of career paths: • • •

Legal profession • • Advertising • Publishing

Literary editing Non-profit State legislature

ALUMNI STORIES

For inspiration on how our alumni have used their majors, check out these alumni success stories in publishing, education, non-profits, politics, and more: english.arizona.edu/alumni-stories

NOTABLE BOOKS BY CW ALUM

Our CW alumni have had a powerful impact through extraordinary works that reflect the creativity and talent fostered by our program.

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Empire Falls, by Richard Russo (Pulitzer) Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace The Line Becomes a River, by Paco Cantú Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit, by Aisha Sabatini Sloan Cactus Country: A Boyhood Memoir, by Zoë Bossiere

ECONOMIC DATA

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and other sources*, people with English degrees have worked in the following fields:

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Literary Publicists (~ $59,586/yr) Marketing managers (~ $135,030/yr) Journalists (~ $63,350/yr) Technical writers (~ $69,214/yr) Guidance counselors (~ $60,510/yr)

In fact, English majors rank among the highest average scorers on the LSATs – a test necessary for law school. *U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Glassdoor, Salary.com, U.S. News & World Reports, ZipRecruiter, and LSAC Social Science Research.

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