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The Bachelor Of Fine Arts Degree:

Creative Writing

BPC's outstanding undergraduate BFA in Creative Writing consists of common core requirements,  Major requirements, and Creative Expressions and General electives.  It is a comprehensive degree in the art of creative writing, emphasizing traditional rhetoric, philosophy, and aesthetics.  Writing courses familiarize students with a variety of traditional and contemporary genres, and invite each student to seek and find his or her own voice.  The discipline of structured writings and intensive revisions blend with workshop-style discussions which sharpen the editorial skills of writers of fiction, poetry, film scripts, and creative non-fiction.  Graduating students complete a capstone project of publisheable work which prepares them for work in the marketplace or for further studies in graduate school.

Students who chose to pursue their Major in English with a minor in creative writing complete the same requqirements as those in the regular English Major except that they must choose four creative writing courses as the focus of thier study.  All of these courses may count as electives toward the English Major.

CREATIVE WRITING SCHOLARSHIPS

BPC academic scholarships of various amounts are available to creative writing students.  Each applicant can work with financial aid and any member of the English/Creative Writing faculty to help implement these opportunities.

BPC also supports and belongs to the Alliance For Young Artists And Writers.  Every year, the Alliance sponsors The Scholastic Art and Writing Awards.  Please refer to the website for details.   http://www.artandwriting.org/enter.htm   

CREATIVE WRITING READINGS AND EVENTS

We schedule visiting authors in a variety of genres to campus on an annual basis.   These writers give readings, entertain questions, and meet with students.  Recent visitors have included fiction writer and teacher Amber Dermont and scriptwriter and producer James Kicklighter.

Creative Writing students take an active role in organizing and conducting the readings sponsored by the BPC creative writing community.  Readings by student writers, BPC faculty, and local writers take place once a month during both fall and spring semesters.

ACTIVITIES AND CONTESTS

Some of the activities available to creative writing students include work on and affiliation with the followoing:

     Oracle, the school's journal of literary art

     Journal Of The Georgia Philological Association, the school's juried academic journal

     Sigma Tau Delta, the national English Honor Society

     Young Writers, the school's sponsored day of writing workshops for high school students

Two of the creative writing contests we sponsor each year include:

     The Academy Of American Poets contest

     AWP Intro Journals Project

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