The School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas offers B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees with emphasis in creative writing and translation, as well as a minor in Creative Writing. Students, after consultation with the faculty, may choose to write creative honor’s theses, portfolios, and dissertations.

In the Creative Writing Program, students are encouraged to cross standard academic boundaries and explore the humanities not only from a scholarly vantage but also from creative and practical directions. Creative writing courses are offered in fiction writing, poetry writing, playwriting, script writing, biography, and translation. In many academic classes (The Literature of Fantasy and The History of the Novel), there is an option to submit creative projects in fulfillment of course requirements.

Students are strongly recommended to take classes in as many different genres as possible and to become involved in the readings and other creative activities that the School sponsors, such as Sojourn, the Arts and Humanities literary journal. The Creative Writing and Translation website.

Students in the Creative Writing Program have published poetry and fiction in a variety of other journals, including Story, The Seattle Review, Tennessee Review, Calyx, Borderlands, Concho River Review, Trans/forms, West Wind Review, Pinehurst Journal, Next Phase, Blue Mesa Review, Cafe Bellas Artes, The Licking River Review, Venue, and Rag Mag. Students have also had plays produced nationally at the Los Angeles Theatre Center and the University of Nebraska and locally at the Undermain, Deep Ellum Theater, Swiss Avenue Theater, and many other sites in Dallas.