Quick Facts
• Read your original work at public readings or submit it for publication or production
• Become an editor or member of the
  production staff of Harbinger, Stephens’ award-winning arts magazine
• Join Alpha Epsilon Eta, our "Outstanding Chapter" of the Sigma Tau Delta International English Honor Society

Interested in a $3,000 renewable English & Creative Writing scholarship? Participate in the English & Creative Writing Scholarship Competition and submit materials online by March 1. Winners will be announced at the Scholarship Awards Luncheon during the March 9-10 Experience Stephens visit weekend.

B.A. IN ENGLISH
Stephens’ English program teaches you skills vital to any career and serves as a solid foundation for graduate study. Through engaging class discussions and personal interaction with our faculty, you will learn modern critical methods, including feminist, post-colonial and reader-response theories.

All are intended to ensure creative development and strengthen interpretive, analytical, decision-making and communication skills. In your senior capstone course, you will demonstrate your writing skills in a senior essay under the guidance of a faculty committee.

B.F.A. IN CREATIVE WRITING
Stephens offers the only Creative Writing program at a women’s college in the Midwest. You will develop and refine your writing skills through a unique women’s writing curriculum.

Writing workshops and a broad range of literature, women’s studies and cultural criticism courses will help you explore and perfect your skills as a writer while building your understanding of relationships among women, writing and culture. Faculty mentors will help you achieve command of the language in workshop-style classes that focus on the genres of poetry, fiction, screenwriting, playwriting, autobiography and non-fiction. An emphasis in scriptwriting is available for students interested in screenwriting and playwriting. You’ll also learn to write, develop, and produce collaborative and solo audio drama projects. For your capstone experience, you will submit a creative project under the guidance of a faculty committee.

MINORS
The English/Creative Writing department also offers minors in ENGLISH, CREATIVE WRITING and LANGUAGE AND CULTURE. Click here for a full list of minors.

BACHELOR'S + MASTER'S PROGRAM
Earn a master's degree in as little as one additional year through our Bachelor's + Master's Program.