Loyola University Chicago

The Creative Writing Concentration (CWC) is offered within the regular English major, and is intended for students interested in and committed both to their own creative work (fiction and/or poetry) and to the study of literature from a writer's point of view.

Students are required to complete the usual sequence of required courses for the major.

• Students completing the CWC within the general framework of the English Major substitute the following creative writing courses for the five electives:

  317: Poetry Writing
  318: Fiction Writing
  357: Literature from a Writer's Perspective
  397: Advanced Writing Workshop: Poetry
  398: Advanced Writing Workshop: Fiction

  Note: students may take 397 and 398, or 397 twice, or 398 twice to fulfill the Advanced Writing Workshop course requirements.

  Since the Advanced Writing Workshops substitute for the Advanced Seminar, CWC students have an additional elective, which they may use to take any other English course they wish.

Of special interest to creative writing students are the readings and class visits by established fiction writers and poets sponsored each year by the English department.