Creative Writing Graduate Certificate
Creative Writing Graduate Certificate
Meet Our Program
Designed for Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree holders and professional writers, this program allows you to specialize in a new genre beyond the specialty genre of your MFA. With this certificate, you will work towards producing a full-length manuscript suitable for publication and a critical paper appropriate for publication on an aspect of the craft, profession, or pedagogy that pertains to your new genre. The genres offered are the same as in the Queens MFA program: fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, and writing for stage and screen.
You will master the ability to self-edit through multiple revisions and/or revise in response to others’ editing suggestions. Learn the formal and thematic requirements of your new genre, as well as demonstrate mastery of your craft at all levels: word choice, the construction of sentence and paragraph (for prose genres), line and verse (for poetry), dialogue (in writing for stage and screen), and the development of a discrete creative element (short story, chapter, poem, essay, or scene).
Program Highlights
- Number of credits: 24 credit hours
- Average completion time: 12 months
- Cost per credit: $815 per credit hour
- Total tuition: $19,560
- Flexible program: Low residency format
Highlighted Courses
- Craft Seminars in Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction and Writing for Stage and Screen
- Critical Theory for Creative Writers
- Questioning the Literary Canon
Program Contact
Samantha Willingham
Program Coordinator, MFA
mfa@queens.edu
704-337-2548