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Creative Writing Graduate Certificate

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Do you have a story to tell? Are you interested in developing your creative writing skills? If you want to be actively engaged in graduate-level creative writing classes and hone your talent as a writer, then the Graduate Certificate in Creative Writing might be for you.

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Why Pursue a Graduate Certificate in Creative Writing

UTSA’s Graduate Certificate in Creative Writing adds interdisciplinary breadth to a student’s course of study while increasing the depth and coherence of a student’s work in creative writing. Given the growing interest in creative writing in liberal arts as well as non-traditional disciplines like medicine, sociology, and psychology, many students find this formal recognition of their work in creative writing to be a valuable credential in both academic and non-academic job markets. Students who are pursuing the Graduate Certificate also receive first consideration for graduate workshop registration.

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Are you ready to take your career and academic journey to the next level? Combine this program with another eligible certificate to earn a master’s degree in Multidisciplinary Studies! Take advantage of the opportunity to customize your degree to align with your professional and educational goals.

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Applications are submitted through the UTSA Graduate Application . Please upload all required documents (listed below) on your UTSA Graduate Application. It is the applicant’s responsibility to ensure completion and submission of the application, a nonrefundable application fee, and all required supporting documents are on file with UTSA by the appropriate application deadline. For international students, please note that student visas are not issued at UTSA for non-degree-seeking students, including certificate programs. For more information, visit our international students admission page .

Applicants are encouraged to have their admission file completed as early as possible. All applications, required documents and letters of recommendation, if applicable, must be submitted by 5:00 PM U.S. Central Time on the day of the deadline. Deadlines are subject to change.

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Young Writers

Lighthouse's Young Writers Workshops are designed to foster creativity, self-expression, and excitement about writing. There are no grades here, just the stories. We offer workshops at Lighthouse including afterschool and weekend workshops, the Young Authors Collective, and summer camps, as well as youth outreach in schools, at juvenile residential treatment centers, and in collaboration with other arts organizations.

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Lighthouse connects kids and teens to words, new friends, and a writing community. We offer workshops in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, playwriting, screenwriting, and many other genres and topics. Our classes are taught by published authors and are designed to foster creativity, self-expression, and excitement about writing.

Summer Writing Camps

Lighthouse's Young Writers Camps are led by published and award-winning writers, and each workshop is designed to foster creativity, self-expression, and excitement about writing in young writers aged 8 to 18. Registration for half-day camp and applications for full-day camp will open on January 1, 2019.

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The Young Writers Program offers creative writing workshops in public and private schools as well as juvenile residential treatment centers throughout the Denver metro area. Led by working, published writers with a passion for sharing their craft, our outreach workshops provide access to our innovative creative writing programming for young people who cannot come to Lighthouse.

The Young Authors Collective, or YAC, is a group of talented, word-obsessed high school writers dedicated to experimenting with new creative forms, collaborating with other arts organizations, and writing a ton. We meet once a week at Lighthouse to generate new pieces, give friendly feedback, and work towards publication.

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Our Future Scribes Depend on Your Support. Nearly all of the workshops and projects that will engage 2,300 students this year are free to attend, and for the sessions that do have tuition, such as summer writing camp, financial aid is available for any student who needs it. We want all young people who want to write to be able to do so and for them to be nurtured by the best instructors and mentors available. This only happens with the support of generous donors like you.

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Creative Writing

Texas' only bachelor of fine arts in creative writing.

Do you dream of writing the next great American novel or making it big as an award-winning screenwriter in Hollywood? SFA’s Bachelor of Fine Arts in creative writing will give you the training you need to succeed in a wide range of professions. It’s ideal preparation for a career as a novelist, poet, journalist or playwright. Even if you want to work in a field like media, public relations or corporate communications, a Bachelor of Fine Arts in creative writing is a significant advantage. SFA boasts the only program of its kind in Texas – and one of just a handful in the nation!

Learn more about possible career paths.

An inspirational setting

Our beautiful East Texas setting is ideal for writers seeking a creative environment. At SFA, you’ll get the best of both worlds. You’ll live in a dynamic community of your peers and acclaimed visiting writers, and you’ll have instant access to the inspiring sights and peaceful sounds of the East Texas Piney Woods.

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Bachelor of fine arts in creative writing.

Our Bachelor of Fine Arts in creative writing program is the only one in Texas and one of only 16 in the nation. If you’re an aspiring writer, this program will give you fundamental and advanced training in the craft and technique of writing for a variety of genres. This program includes coursework in playwriting, screenwriting and literary publishing.

View a degree plan on the advising web page .

To learn more about the requirements of this program, please see the  Undergraduate Bulletin or discuss with your advisor.

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About Gemini Ink

Gemini Ink’s mission is to teach the craft of writing to people of all skill levels so they can bring their stories to life.

We envision a world where all people experience the power of the writing arts.

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Our strategic vision is to teach 12,000 people how to bring their stories to life by 2025.

Everyone Has A Story

We believe writing that story is powerful. When people learn the four pillars of writing, they learn the power of the craft of writing. When they learn the power of the craft of writing, they bring their stories to life. Our strategic vision is to teach 12,000 people how to bring their stories to life by 2025.

Gemini Ink’s programs serve children, youth and adults across San Antonio. We serve an estimated 3500 participants annually: 83% take our programs free of charge, and 67% of those served are people of color. With 25% of households in the city under Federal poverty and a population 63% Latino and 8% African American, our outreach into all corners of the city is especially significant.  Since 1992, we’ve increased access to the writing arts, grown literacy, and built joy in and engagement with reading and writing.

Alexandra is the author of three full-length collections of poems: Kiss/Hierarchy (Rain Mountain Press, 2016) and The Park of Upside-Down Chairs (CW Books, 2010). Her recent collection, Ricochet Script , from Next Page Press was published in the spring of 2022. She has also published several chapbooks, including Dear Jean Seberg (2011) , which won the 2010 Burnside Review Chapbook Contest. Her poems have been published in journals nationwide, such as The Cincinnati Review , Connecticut Review , 32Poems, Denver Quarterly, The Taos Journal of International Poetry & Art, and Washington Square . Her work has been nominated for five Pushcart Prizes and Best of the Net.

Florinda Flores-Brown is a writer, educator, and nonprofit professional from Laredo, TX, now living in San Antonio. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre and Dance from the University of Texas at Austin and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Goddard College. She currently works as Gemini Ink’s Director of Programs, through which she oversees creative writing workshops that help diverse communities across San Antonio bring their stories to life. Florinda has performed live stories at TPR’s Worth Repeating, Listen To Your Mother, Jump-Start Performance Company, and other San Antonio shows and venues. She also writes short fiction and plays.

Anisa has worked at Gemini Ink since 2009, when she was hired as the Writers in Communities director (now called Partner Classes), placing writers and artists to work in community settings such as public schools, senior centers, detention centers, and homeless and crisis shelters. From these projects, she has published numerous anthologies of poetry, fiction, prose, drawings, photography, recipes, and more. She has been Gemini Ink’s Marketing and Publications director since 2013. She is also a co-publisher at Aztlan Libre Press.

Joshua Cantú joined Gemini Ink in 2018 as a marketing volunteer/intern and is now the operations manager. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Arts from the University of the Incarnate Word. Joshua is multidisciplinary at heart, being a photographer, frustrated painter, blogger/essayist, poet, and now short story writer who is not yet ready to share his writing with the world. In his free time, Joshua enjoys watching telenovelas, starting books and never finishing them, and gobbling up varying podcasts & YouTube videos. If he’s not in San Antonio, he’s enjoying the sunny Southwest or mountainous Mexico.

Mandy Lynn is a member of San Antonio’s PuroSlam slam poetry team representing San Antonio in the national competition. She is co-founder of Raise the Whisper, a poetry and arts group dedicated to using art to help heal the effects of family rape. For the last four years, Mandy Lynn has worked with Write Art Out, Inc., a literary non-profit organization in San Antonio, and has lead writing workshops, hosted events, mentored emerging writers, and is currently taking a lead role in organizing Fresh Ink Youth Slam.

Catherine is an artist, educator, and former editor with a MA in English from UTSA. A few of her poems appear in Sagebrush Review and Borderlands . During her free time, she works on projects, paints, reads, and plays board games with her family. She’s wanted to be a part of the Gemini Ink family since first learning of the organization 20 years ago, so this job has been a literal dream come true.

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Cloud (she/they) is a poet and book cover designer from San Anto, Tejas. Cardona is the author of What Remains , winner of the Host Publications Chapbook Prize. They are the co-founder and co-editor of Infrarrealista Review, a literary nonprofit dedicated to publishing Texan writers. She has received editorial fellowships from Macmillan in collaboration with Latinx in Publishing and Texas State University’s Center for the Study of the Southwest. When she’s not working, she is cuddling with her two weiner dogs and curating her DJ sets.

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The department offers a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree in English with concentrations in Professional Writing; Creative Writing; English Language Arts and Reading; and Black, Indigenous, and Latinx Literature, as well as minors in English Literature and Professional Writing, and a certificate in Professional Writing and Rhetoric. Honors can also be earned in English.

Honors in English

The English Department offers its outstanding students the opportunity to pursue Department Honors through advanced study and close faculty mentorship in major courses. To earn Honors, a student must:

• Maintain a 3.5 grade point average in both major work and support work as well as a 3.25 overall grade point average. Grade point average requirements apply to both transfer courses and courses taken at UTSA.
• Take and successfully complete three Honors-designated English classes with a grade of "B" or better. Any upper-division English class may be designated as Honors pending student petition and approval of the individual instructor. Honors designations involve additional coursework and faculty mentoring.
• Before graduating, submit for approval from the Departmental Scholarship and Honors Committee a portfolio containing (a) three substantial papers (totaling a minimum of 25 pages) and (b) a critical statement (5 to 8 pages). The substantial papers, at least two of which must be written for Honors-designated English courses, may be revised and edited for submission. The critical statement should assess the papers’ contribution to the student’s goals as an English major seeking Honors. The critical statement and the substantial papers will be evaluated in terms of research, analysis, eloquence, and command of subject. 

Students interested in pursuing Honors may contact the English Department for further information.

• Professional Writing Concentration
• Creative Writing Concentration
• English Language Arts and Reading Concentration
• Black, Indigenous, and Latinx Literature Concentration 

Bachelor of Arts Degree in English

The minimum number of semester credit hours required for this degree is 120, including the hours of Core Curriculum requirements. Thirty-nine of the 120 total semester credit hours required for the degree must be at the upper-division level. Students seeking teacher certification should consult the Interdisciplinary Education Advising and Certification Center for information.

All candidates seeking this degree must complete ENG 4973 Seminar for English Majors with a grade of “C-” or better.

All candidates seeking this degree must fulfill the Core Curriculum requirements and the degree requirements, which are listed below.

Students seeking the B.A. degree in English (including all concentrations except English Language Arts and Reading; these students are exempt from completing this requirement) must complete the COLFA Second Language Experience. General requirements are listed on the College of Liberal and Fine Arts page of this Undergraduate Catalog. B.A. in English students may also fulfill the requirement by completing one of the following:

• Completing the first two semesters of a second language or equivalent plus Advanced-level Reading Knowledge of a second language or Intermediate-level Reading Knowledge of two second languages.
• Completing the first two semesters of a second language or equivalent proficiency plus participation in theatrical productions, film-making, or other artistic or media production in a language other than English.

Core Curriculum Requirements (42 semester credit hours)

Students seeking the B.A. degree in English must fulfill University Core Curriculum requirements in the same manner as other students. The courses listed below will satisfy both degree requirements and Core Curriculum requirements; however, if these courses are taken to satisfy both requirements, then students may need to take additional courses in order to meet the minimum number of semester credit hours required for this degree.

ENG 2213 may be used to satisfy the core requirement in Language, Philosophy, and Culture as well as a major requirement. ENG 2413 may be used to satisfy the core requirement in Component Area Option as well as a major requirement for a B.A. in English with a Concentration in Professional Writing or for a minor in Professional Writing.

For a complete listing of courses that satisfy the Core Curriculum requirements, see Core Curriculum Component Area Requirements.

Core Curriculum Component Area Requirements

First year experience requirement (3 semester credit hours).

All students must complete one of the following courses, for a total of 3 semester credit hours:

Communication (6 semester credit hours)

Students must complete the following courses, for a total of 6 semester credit hours:

Mathematics (3 semester credit hours)

Students must complete one of the following courses, for a total of 3 semester credit hours:

Life and Physical Sciences (6 semester credit hours)

Students must complete two of the following courses for a total of 6 semester credit hours:

Language, Philosophy and Culture (3 semester credit hours)

Creative Arts (3 semester credit hours)

American History (6 semester credit hours)

Students must complete two of the following courses, for a total of 6 semester credit hours:

Government-Political Science (6 semester credit hours)

Social and Behavioral Sciences (3 semester credit hours)

Component Area Option (CAO) (3 semester credit hours)

Students must complete either one of the following courses or any additional Core Curriculum course not previously used to satisfy a core component area requirement, for a total of 3 semester credit hours:

Degree Requirements (without a concentration)

B.A. in English with a Concentration in Professional Writing

All candidates for the B.A. degree in English with a Professional Writing concentration must complete:

B.A. in English with a Concentration in Creative Writing

In order to declare a Creative Writing concentration, students must successfully demonstrate proficiency, professionalism, and commitment in their writing portfolios. Entrance into upper-division creative writing courses is not guaranteed and is also dependent upon course availability.

All candidates for the B.A. degree in English with a Creative Writing concentration must complete:

B.A. in English with a Concentration in English Language Arts and Reading

The B.A. degree in English with an English Language Arts and Reading concentration is designed for students intending to teach English at the secondary school level. It includes preparation for teaching populations who speak English as a Second Language.

Students seeking teacher certification should contact the Interdisciplinary Education Advising and Certification Center as early in their educational program as possible for information about teacher certification requirements.

Programs are subject to change without notice due to changes in the state’s certification and/or program approval requirements. Teacher certification programs address standards of the State Board for Educator Certification. Standards can be found at http://www.tea.state.tx.us/ .

B.A. in English with a Concentration in Black, Indigenous, and Latinx Literature

All candidates for the B.A. degree in English with a Black, Indigenous, and Latinx Literature concentration must complete:

Course Sequence Guide for B.A. Degree in English (without a concentration)

This course sequence guide is designed to assist students in completing their UTSA undergraduate English degree requirements. This is merely a guide and students must satisfy other requirements of this catalog and meet with their academic advisor for individualized degree plans . Progress within this guide depends upon such factors as course availability, individual student academic preparation, student time management, work obligations, and individual financial considerations. Students may choose to take courses during Summer terms to reduce course loads during long semesters.

B.A. in English – Four-Year Academic Plan

Course Sequence Guide for B.A. Degree in English with a Concentration in Professional Writing

This course sequence guide is designed to assist students in completing their UTSA undergraduate English degree requirements. This is merely a guide and students must satisfy other requirements of this catalog and meet with their academic advisor for individualized degree plans. Progress within this guide depends upon such factors as course availability, individual student academic preparation, student time management, work obligations, and individual financial considerations. Students may choose to take courses during Summer terms to reduce course loads during long semesters.

B.A. in English, Concentration in Professional Writing – Four-Year Academic Plan

Course Sequence Guide for B.A. Degree in English with a Concentration in Creative Writing

B.a. in english, concentration in creative writing – four-year academic plan.

Course Sequence Guide for B.A. Degree in English with a Concentration in English Language Arts and Reading

B.a. in english, concentration in english language arts and reading – four-year academic plan.

Course Sequence Guide for B.A. Degree in English with a Concentration in Black, Indigenous, and Latinx Literature

This course sequence guide is designed to assist students in completing their UTSA undergraduate English degree requirements.  This is merely  a guide and students must satisfy other requirements of this catalog and meet with their academic advisor for individualized degree plans.  Progress within this guide depends upon such factors as course availability, individual student academic preparation, student time management, work obligations, and individual financial considerations. Students may choose to take courses during Summer terms to reduce course loads during long semesters.

B.A. in English, Concentration in Black, Indigenous, and Latinx Literature - Four-Year Academic Plan

Minor in English Literature

• Minor in Professional Writing

All students pursuing the Minor in English Literature must complete 21 semester credit hours of English and American literature.

San Antonio Writers' Guild

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Welcome to the San Antonio Writers' Guild

The San Antonio Writers’ Guild is a group of writers who meet regularly. It is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that has helped writers develop their craft for over 25 years. Our purpose is to share experiences & information, and help each other grow in our craft. We welcome writers of all genres & levels of experience. Becoming a SAWG member allows you to have your writing critiqued during our weekly critique meetings, reduced rates to enter our annual writing contest, and member rates on special events.

Critique Groups

San Antonio Writers’ Guild hosts two critique groups led by experienced member writers. Our Zoom and In-person critique groups will meet every Saturday & every Wednesday, respectively. We welcome writers of all genres & levels Read More ...

Monthly Meeting

July 11 Monthly Meeting — Short Stories and Microfiction  Presented by Ian Grogan and Aimee Keith What is a short story? What is microfiction? What do they look like? How do I write a full story Read More ...

Summer Writing Challenge

A fun, challenging quick contest for SAWG members. Discussion, and details at June Monthly Meeting. Join us on Thursday, June 6: 7-8:30 pm at Sea Island Shrimp House on I-10 (site details in Monthly Meeting Read More ...

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• How to Show, Not Tell: The Complete Writing Guide “Don’t tell me the moon is shining. Show me the glint of light on broken glass.” – Anton Chekov …
• Creative Writng Prompts From Writers Digest -- Need an idea to help you get started writing? You’ll find hundreds of fun writing prompts here – perfect for beginning a new novel or short story, or simply giving your writing muscle a workout.
• 365 Creative Writing Prompts If you want to become a better writer, the best thing you can do is practice writing every single day. But we know sometimes it can be hard to think of what to write about! So we put together this list of 365 creative writing prompts to give you something to write about daily. Whether you write short stories, poems, or like to keep a journal – these will stretch your imagination and give you some ideas on what to write about!
• Visual Writing Prompts Wide varitey of picture prompts to help you develope a story
• National Gallery, London Use these paintings to write a story about them.
• Smithsonian American Art Museum Search the collectioins to find inspiration for your writing!
• Musopen Musopen is a 501(c)(3) non-profit focused on increasing access to music by creating free resources and educational materials. We provide recordings, sheet music, and textbooks to the public for free, without copyright restrictions. Put simply, our mission is to set music free. Use the music to prompt your writing; what is the story they are telling?
• How to write descriptively - Nalo Hopkinson The point of fiction is to cast a spell, a momentary illusion that you are living in the world of the story. But as a writer, how do you suck your readers into your stories in this way? Nalo Hopkinson shares some tips for how to use language to make your fiction really come alive.
• How to Become Descriptive Writer A video lesson!

Writers on Writing

Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.  --  E. L. Doctorow

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Texas is fortunate to have more than a hundred of them—general, poetry, romance, children's, Christian, ethnic, songwriting, screenwriting, mystery, technical writing, you name it. Lift the veil of solitude and reach out to one of these groups or organizations, categorized by Texas city—they'll tell you more about their purpose, meeting times, and membership requirements. Other useful resources for locating a group that suits your interest and location are your local bookstores and libraries, and the Austin-based Writers’ League of Texas.  And remember,  many of these groups have moved online,  so you can participate from anywhere. Is your group's information missing or out of date? Email us with contact details. 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Over the years the series has hosted such writers as Mary Oliver, Ernest Gaines, Tobias Wolff, Karen Tei Yamashita, Evie Shockley, Denise Levertov, Alberto Ríos, Pat Mora, Diane Wakoski, Edward Hirsch, and many other poets and fiction writers who not only give public readings but also visit classes and meet with students about their writing. We’ve had as many as twelve readings by visiting writers in a year but have settled on three or four annually as an ideal number. This reading series is made possible through the generosity of our Donors . CARLOS HAGERMAN’s “Home is Somewhere Else” - September 21 | 4:00 PM September 21 | 4:00 PM | UTSA Main Campus - McKinney Humanities Building 2.01.10 Join the UTSA Film and Media program as a part of celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month in the screening of Home Is Somewhere Else.  A 2022 Mexican-American adult animated documentary film written and directed by Carlos Hagerman & Jorge Villalobos. It tells three stories of migrant families who share their fears, hopes, and emotions about what it means to live undocumented in the United States. There will be a Q&A with the filmmaker Carlos Hagerman on September 21 from 4 PM-6 PM, along with a "Storytelling to Create Empathy" masterclass on September 22 from 12 PM -1 PM. October 6 | 7:00 PM | UTSA Southwest Campus - (Coates   Chapel ) KALI FAJARDO-ANSTINE  is the nationally bestselling author of the novel  Woman of Light  and the widely acclaimed short story collection  Sabrina & Corina , a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of an American Book Award. She is a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow and the 2021 recipient of the Addison M. Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Fajardo-Anstine is the Endowed Chair in Creative Writing at Texas State University and is from Denver, Colorado. February 2 | 7:00 PM | UTSA Main Campus – University Room (Business Building 2.06.04 ) ANDREW PORTER   is the author of the story collections   The Disappeared   (Knopf) and   The Theory of Light and Matter   (Vintage) and the novel   In Between Days   (Knopf). A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he has received a Pushcart Prize, a James Michener/Copernicus Fellowship, and the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. His work has appeared in   One Story ,   The Threepenny Review ,   Ploughshares ,  Narrative ,   The Southern Review , and on Public Radio’s   Selected Shorts . Currently, he teaches fiction writing and directs the creative writing program at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas.   Discussion and Q&A with Andrew Porter open to everyone on February 2 from 11:30-1:00 in the Anaqua Room (2.03.08) of the Student Union April 19 | 7:00 PM | UTSA Main Campus – University Room (Business Building 2.06.04) JASMINNE MENDEZ   is a best-selling Dominican-American poet, translator, playwright and award winning author of several books for children and adults. Including the middle grade novel in verse   Aniana del Mar Jumps In   (Dial). Her debut picture book   Josefina’s Habichuelas   (Arte Publico Press, 2021) was the Writer’s League of Texas Children’s Book Discovery Prize Winner. She is an MFA graduate of the creative writing program at the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University and a University of Houston alumni. She is the Program Director for the literary arts non-profit Tintero Projects and she lives and works in Houston, TX. 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