Share Your Story With The World
Let the power of storytelling take your career to new heights with UMS's online Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. As one of the only programs available that encourages a focus on genre fiction, UMS's online MFA lets you hone your craft in an area specific to your strengths and interests. You'll also learn about the business side of creative writing, preparing you to market your work in the real world.
While most MFA programs require a residency, meaning time away from your current job and busy schedule, UMS's online MFA can be completed entirely online with no travel necessary. And with the included certificates in either the Online Teaching of Writing or Professional Writing, you'll have the skills to support your writing career.
See Yourself Succeed in Creative Writing
Whereas traditional MFA programs shy away from genre fiction, UMS’s online MFA will support you in writing the novel or story collection of your choice. By encouraging writers to focus on sci-fi, young adult, fantasy, romance and more, online MFA students gain experience in the genres that are in high demand by publishers.
There's more to a career in writing than perfecting your craft. You also need to learn how to get your work into readers' hands. That's why UMS's online MFA program puts a strong focus on the practical skills you'll need to succeed. You'll have the opportunity to learn how to:
- Utilize social media to gain a following and build your brand
- Market your work to appeal to decision makers
- Teach writing in a classroom setting
- Understand the business and technical sides of professional writing
Curriculum
Besides allowing a genre focus of your choice, UMS’s online MFA lets you choose from two certificate offerings designed to round out your education and better prepare you for a writing-related career. Choose from Teaching of Writing, which is tailored to those who see themselves in a classroom setting, or Professional Writing, which highlights the technical and business opportunities available to writers.
All of our courses are taught by accomplished authors who know both the craft and business of creative writing. They will work closely with you to develop both your creative and professional skill set.
Courses May Include
Program Outcomes
- Create publishable works of fiction in specific genre by effectively controlling and manipulating the elements of storytelling
- Hone one’s own writing process and craft through practice, constructive work-shopping, and reflection
- Synthesize the literature and history of one’s chosen genre for situating oneself in the literary landscape
- Leverage a realistic understanding of the publishing ecosystem in achieving business and artistic goals
- Explore viable, current writing career opportunities that enhance and sustain one’s experiences as a professional author
- Build a writer’s platform that advances artistic and career goals and is grounded in literary citizenship
- Create publishable works of fiction in specific genre by effectively controlling and manipulating the elements of storytelling
- Hone one’s own writing process and craft through practice, constructive workshopping, and reflection
- Synthesize the literature and history of one’s chosen genre for situating oneself in the literary landscape
- Leverage a realistic understanding of the publishing ecosystem in achieving business and artistic goals
- Explore viable, current writing career opportunities that enhance and sustain one’s experiences as a professional author
- Build a writer’s platform that advances artistic and career goals and is grounded in literary citizenship
