Creative Writing Minor

Residential Minor in Creative Writing

Sharpen your writing skills with a Minor in Creative Writing from Liberty University. With this minor, you’ll focus on authoring creative works while also developing critical thinking and analytical skills that can be crucial in a variety of career fields.

Here, you can learn how to write in various creative genres, from fiction to poetry to inspirational works. And you’ll have the opportunity to gain revision and editing skills for publishing, all within a robust biblical worldview framework.

This minor includes courses where you can:

• Generate your own creative pieces
• Read and critique peer creative works in progress
• Read and analyze published works from a range of periods and cultures

Liberty’s Creative Writing professors are credentialed in their field, have published creative works, and have done editorial work in professional contexts.

And for hands-on learning, you’ll have the opportunity to participate in the publication of LAMP Magazine, the Humanities Department’s literary journal. Here, you can gain the chance to publish original creative works as well as work on the editorial team.

This minor is offered through the Department of Humanities and is open to students of any major.

Academic Information: Minor in Creative Writing