The graduate creative writing emphasis at Sam Houston State University, an important component of the English MA Program, produces students with balanced creative, critical, and professional credentials that will enable them to enter into a writing and/or editing profession or to pursue a terminal degree in creative writing (MFA or PhD).

Aside from fulfilling Course Block requirements, students pursuing the creative writing emphasis take two workshops in fiction and/or poetry and serve as interns on the staff of The Texas Review Press.

Credit Hour Distribution for a Student Pursuing the Graduate Creative Writing Emphasis:

English 697 (first long term): 3 hours
Block I class: 3 hours
Block III class: 3 hours
Block IV class: 3 hours
Block V class: 3 hours
Two creative writing workshops (one of which satisfies the Block II requirement): 6 hours
At least one Texas Review Press internship: 3 hours
Electives: 6 hours
Creative thesis (English 698 + English 699): 6 hours

Comprehensive Written Examination
Oral Defense of Thesis

Graduate Creative Writing Faculty

Scott Kaukonen

Melissa Morphew

Paul Ruffin