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Fostering Your Imagination

Are you an enthusiastic writer thinking about turning your passion into a career? Develop your voice in Ashland University’s Creative Writing program.

A degree in Creative Writing is an asset to nearly any career you pursue because it helps you develop critical thinking and clear expression.

Contact Us

Administrative Assistant

Angela Miller
Administrative Assistant
203, Center for the Humanities of Bixler Hall
419.289.5110
amille75@ashland.edu

Department Contact

Dr. Hilary Donatini
Chair, Department of Languages and Literatures
306 Bixler Center for the Humanities
hdonatin@ashland.edu

For questions about first-year composition, please contact:
Dr. Maura Grady
Director of English Composition
mgrady3@ashland.edu

Curriculum

Brochures, Course Rotations & Four-Year Guides

Each department provides information specific to its majors and programs to help ensure you choose exactly which major is right for you. Use the supplemental material below to assist you in finding a major that most interests you.

Current Academic Year

English Master Syllabi

Foreign Language Master Syllabi

English Course Rotations

Foreign Language Course Rotations

Current Academic Year
Creative Writing, B.A. Four-Year Guide

Core Curriculum

Sample courses include:

  • Problems in Creative Writing. Explore the development of individual style and voice in student writing through a series of prose and poetry projects.

  • Writers' Workshop: Creative Nonfiction/Fiction. Taught by professors with extensive publishing experience, this seminar course discusses the craft of writing fiction and creative nonfiction.

  • Capstone Course in Creative Writing. Study the editing and presentation of your literary output.

  • Writers' Workshop: Poetry. Taught by professors with extensive publishing experience, this seminar course discusses the craft of writing poetry.

Contact Us

Contact Us

Administrative Assistant

Angela Miller
Administrative Assistant
203, Center for the Humanities of Bixler Hall
419.289.5110
amille75@ashland.edu

Department Contact

Dr. Hilary Donatini
Chair, Department of Languages and Literatures
306 Bixler Center for the Humanities
hdonatin@ashland.edu

For questions about first-year composition, please contact:
Dr. Maura Grady
Director of English Composition
mgrady3@ashland.edu

Curriculum

Curriculum

Brochures, Course Rotations & Four-Year Guides

Each department provides information specific to its majors and programs to help ensure you choose exactly which major is right for you. Use the supplemental material below to assist you in finding a major that most interests you.

Current Academic Year

English Master Syllabi

Foreign Language Master Syllabi

English Course Rotations

Foreign Language Course Rotations

Current Academic Year
Creative Writing, B.A. Four-Year Guide

Core Curriculum

Core Curriculum

Sample courses include:

  • Problems in Creative Writing. Explore the development of individual style and voice in student writing through a series of prose and poetry projects.

  • Writers' Workshop: Creative Nonfiction/Fiction. Taught by professors with extensive publishing experience, this seminar course discusses the craft of writing fiction and creative nonfiction.

  • Capstone Course in Creative Writing. Study the editing and presentation of your literary output.

  • Writers' Workshop: Poetry. Taught by professors with extensive publishing experience, this seminar course discusses the craft of writing poetry.

The Advantages of Ashland's Creative Writing Program

In the Creative Writing program at Ashland University, you’ll have numerous opportunities to learn from experienced authors and create works of your own. By the time you graduate, you’ll have a fully developed manuscript. In your senior capstone course, you will work toward creating a polished series of stories, essays, or a chapbook of poems.

You’ll also:

  • Receive personalized attention from professors who are published authors dedicated to helping you succeed.

  • Learn about the publishing process from professors and authors who have experienced it firsthand.

  • Receive invaluable feedback on your personal work from your introductory writing workshops through the evaluation of your senior capstone manuscript.

  • Meet with published authors who visit the English department as guest speakers (including Pulitzer Prize award winners).

  • Gain rewarding real world experience through internships with Ashland Poetry Press or the Ashland Master of Fine Arts program.

  • Join the editorial team of the Black Fork Review, a literary journal run by students and featuring student writing.
Tyayia Young, English Major

Tyayia Young, English major

“Being in the English program at Ashland University has provided me with lifelong mentors and friends; I receive endless support from all professors in all aspects of life. Our professors create professional relationships that encourage us to branch out into different fields, knowing that we will always have someone to help us along the way. The support does not just end inside the classroom; professors I am no longer in class with have reached out and helped me with my grad school preparations.”

Explore Creative Writing at Ashland University