Editing Creative writing (section)

== In academia==
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Unlike academic writing classes that teach students to write based on the rules of [[language]], creative writing focuses on students' self-expression.<ref>Johnson, Burges and [[Syracuse University]]. "Creative Writing", 3.</ref> While creative writing as an educational subject is often available at various stages of primary and secondary school ([[K–12 education|K–12]]), the most refined teaching of creative writing is in universities.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Teaching of Writing - History, Issues and Trends in School-Based Writing Instruction, Research |url=https://education.stateuniversity.com/pages/2552/Writing-Teaching.html |access-date=2024-05-11 |website=education.stateuniversity.com |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=The Rise of Creative Writing |url=https://www.nawe.co.uk/DB/wip-editions/articles/the-rise-of-creative-writing.html |access-date=2024-05-11 |website=National Association of Writers in Education}}</ref> Following a reworking of university education in the [[post-war]] era, creative writing courses have gained increasing prominence in universities.<ref name=":0" /> In the UK, the first formal creative writing program was established as a [[Master of Arts]] degree at the [[University of East Anglia]] in 1970 by the novelists [[Malcolm Bradbury]] and [[Angus Wilson]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.uea.ac.uk/literature/creative-writing|title=Creative Writing - UEA|website=www.uea.ac.uk|access-date=2014-05-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140522210914/http://www.uea.ac.uk/literature/creative-writing|archive-date=2014-05-22|url-status=live}}</ref> With the beginning of formal creative writing programs:
{{cquote|For the first time in the sad and enchanting history of literature, for the first time in the glorious and dreadful history of the world, the writer was welcome in the academic place. If the mind could be honored there, why not the imagination?<ref name="Engle">{{cite book |last=Engle |first=Paul |chapter=The Writer and the Place |title=A Community of Writers: Paul Engle and the Iowa Writers' Workshop |editor-first=Robert |editor-last=Dana |location=Iowa City |publisher=University of Iowa Press |year=1999 |isbn=0-87745-668-2 |page=2 }}</ref>}}

===Programs of study===
Creative writing programs are typically available to writers from the high school level all the way through graduate school/university and adult education. These programs are traditionally housed in English departments, but creative writing programs have increasingly spun off into their own departments. Creative writing undergraduate degrees tend to be [[Bachelor of Arts]] (BA) or [[Bachelor of Fine Arts]] (BFA) degrees, but [[Bachelor of Science]] (BSc) degrees also exist.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-10-27 |title=Creative Writing Major {{!}} BA and BFA in Creative Writing |url=https://www.creativewritingedu.org/degree-creative-writing/bachelor-fine-arts-bfa-or-ba/ |access-date=2024-05-11 |website=www.creativewritingedu.org |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Richard |date=2016-02-26 |title=Should I get a BFA in Creative Writing? |url=https://www.everywritersresource.com/get-bfa-creative-writing/ |access-date=2024-05-11 |website=EveryWriter |language=en-US}}</ref> Postgraduate courses include [[Master of Arts]], [[Master of Fine Arts]], or [[Master of Studies]]. [[Ph.D.]] programs are also becoming more prevalent in the field, as more writers attempt to bridge the gap between academic study and artistic pursuit.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Writing Courses :: National Association of Writers in Education :: |url=https://www.nawe.co.uk/writing-in-education/writing-at-university/writing-courses.html |access-date=2024-05-11 |website=www.nawe.co.uk}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Choosing a Course :: National Association of Writers in Education :: |url=https://www.nawe.co.uk/writing-in-education/writing-at-university/choosing-a-course.html |access-date=2024-05-11 |website=www.nawe.co.uk}}</ref>

Creative writers often place an emphasis on either fiction or poetry, and often starting with short stories or poems. Students then make a schedule based on this emphasis, including reading assignments, regular writing tasks, and workshops to strengthen their skills, knowledge and techniques. Screenwriting and playwriting courses may be housed in [[film]] and [[theatre]] departments as well as creative writing departments. Creative writing students are encouraged to get involved in extracurricular writing-based activities, such as publishing clubs, school literary magazines or newspapers, writing contests, writing colonies or conventions, and extended education classes.<ref name=":1" />