English Minor: Creative Writing

Learn how to write in a full range of literary genres, from fiction to poetry to spoken word to creative nonfiction to playwriting. You will have the opportunity to conceive of write, edit, and sometimes publish or perform your own creative work. You will leave UMass Dartmouth with a diverse collection of your own stories, poems, essays, and plays, that will serve as a foundation for your writing life.

The creative writing minor is a valuable addition to any curriculum, no matter if a student dreams of being a published novelist someday or if they simply want the chance to explore the creative work that they are passionate about. It teaches you self-motivation, quick critical thinking, the ability to synthesize complex ideas, and empathy. 

As a creative writing minor, you will work with award-winning, published authors who have written books, articles, essays, and poems.

• Professor Lucas Mann has been praised for his two most recent books, Class A: Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere and Lord Fear.
• Professor Caitlin earned the 2013 Ninth Letter Prize in fiction and her story, “Waitress,” won the 2012 Women Who Write International Short Prose Contest.
• Morgan (Mwalim) Peters’s plays are performed internationally.