Writing Studies MA

What is an MA in Writing Studies?

With an MA in writing studies from Saint Joseph’s University, you’ll engage in diverse styles of writing, including personal essays, short stories, poetry, press releases, screenplays, adolescent literature, reflections on teaching writing and grant proposals. You will gain the rhetoric and composition skills necessary to pursue a fulfilling career as a writer.

Depending on your goals, you will have the opportunity to customize your degree by choosing from the following areas of study:

• Writing and Culture
• Rhetoric and Composition
• Professional Writing

Our flexible course scheduling is designed for working professionals. Class sizes are small and include dynamic workshops that will hone your writing skills. In addition to taking classes, you will have the opportunity to gain significant professional work experience through courses that focus on portfolio development and through credit-bearing internships in Philadelphia, New York City, Washington D.C., and beyond.

How Will an MA in Writing Studies from Saint Joseph's University Enhance Your Career?

With an MA in writing studies from Saint Joseph's University, you will have the opportunity to find community in a program taught by writers, for writers. Faculty members include The New York Times best-selling authors Tenaya Darlington, M.F.A., Tom Coyne, M.F.A., and dozens of practicing writers who share their professional experience in the classroom.

Writing studies students publish a student-authored literary magazine, The Avenue, featuring fiction, nonfiction and poetry, and have been widely published in national publications such as:

• USA Today
• Huffington Post
• VOGUE Italia
• Ebony Magazine
• Salon.com and many more.

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