Creative Writing Certificate - Stand-Alone

Contact Information

Website: https://chss.kennesaw.edu/english/programs/gccw.php
Phone: (470) 578-3335

Program Description

A Graduate Certificate in Creative Writing Program is offered through the Master of Arts in Professional Writing Program in the English Department, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, at Kennesaw State University. A unique four-course, non-degree program, its mission is to provide instruction and membership in a community of writers to qualified writing students in metro Atlanta and North Georgia who seek intensive creative writing practice but who do not want to matriculate in a graduate program.

This Graduate Certificate program allows qualified writers to study in graduate-level writing workshops taught by professional writers on the Kennesaw State University faculty.

Admissions Requirements

Candidates apply through the online KSU Graduate College application portal and must meet the same requirements as degree candidates. No GRE score or support area are required. For more information about admissions, go to https://chss.kennesaw.edu/mapw/admissions.php.

APPLY at https://graduate.kennesaw.edu/admissions/apply/online-application.php.  

Application Deadlines

For SPRING Semester: October 1

For FALL Semester: February 1 (Priority); June 1

Program of Study 

A student coming into the Certificate Program would have to choose one of the creative writing genres offered in the MAPW program: fiction, poetry, screen writing, playwriting, or creative nonfiction. Once a genre discipline is selected, the student would be expected to complete workshops in only that genre. For example, a student might select to study for the Graduate Certificate in Creative Writing and focus in fiction writing.

See creative writing courses listed in the Professional Writing, MAPW  Program.