Bowling Green State University · Creative Writing Program, Department of English, College of Arts and Sciences

Creative Writing (BFA)

BFABachelor of Fine Arts in Creative WritingFunding not verified

Overview

An undergraduate creative writing degree in fiction and poetry built around limited-enrollment workshops, literature courses, and a linguistics course. Students complete a senior thesis and present it at BFA readings, and either take Literary Editing and Publishing or complete an internship or co-op.

Official program name: Creative Writing (BFA)
Awarded degree: Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing
Source: bgsu.edu · verified October 9, 2026
School: Bowling Green State University — Creative Writing Program, Department of English, College of Arts and Sciences
Source: bgsu.edu · verified October 9, 2026
Location: Bowling Green, OH
Delivery / residency: Campus-based
Source: bgsu.edu · verified October 9, 2026
Study intensity: Not verified
Duration: Not verified
Required credits: Not verified
Teaching language: English (not separately stated)

Why this degree is listed

BGSU's academics page lists a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in creative writing with training in fiction and poetry and a BFA thesis. Note: the English department's program page instead lists a 'Bachelor of Arts in creative writing'; either title is a dedicated creative writing degree, but the awarded degree level needs confirmation in the catalog.

Source: bgsu.edu · verified October 9, 2026

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Curriculum, genres and faculty

Genres

Fiction Poetry

Source: bgsu.edu · verified October 9, 2026

Workshops

Foundational craft courses in fiction and poetry, followed by limited-enrollment workshops.
Source: bgsu.edu · verified October 9, 2026

Thesis / dissertation

Seniors complete a BFA thesis and present their work at BFA readings.
Source: bgsu.edu · verified October 9, 2026

Internships

The degree requires ENG 3870 Literary Editing and Publishing or an internship (ENG 4890) or co-op.
Source: bgsu.edu · verified October 9, 2026

Literature courses

Literature courses from ancient times to the present, advanced courses in modern and contemporary poetry and fiction, and a linguistics course.
Source: bgsu.edu · verified October 9, 2026

Literary journal opportunities

Students can work on Prairie Margins, the undergraduate literary journal.
Source: bgsu.edu · verified October 9, 2026

Faculty listed by the program

Amorak Huey — Professor; Director, Creative Writing Program
Joe Celizic — Teaching Professor
Abigail Cloud — Teaching Professor
Amanda McGuire Rzicznek — Teaching Professor
Dan Rzicznek — Teaching Professor
Mike Schulz — Teaching Professor
Jessica Zinz-Cheresnick — Teaching Professor

As listed on the program's official page on October 9, 2026. Listing does not mean a faculty member is teaching or supervising new students in a given year.

Source: bgsu.edu · verified October 9, 2026

Admissions

Required, optional, waived and not-required items are shown exactly as the school states them. Anything not listed is not verified — not “not required”.

Admission requirements: not verified. We publish this only when the school states it on an official page.

Writing portfolio

Portfolio requirements: not verified. We publish this only when the school states it on an official page.

Tests

GRE and English-language test policy: not verified. We publish this only when the school states it on an official page.

We do not publish acceptance rates or estimate competitiveness: programs rarely publish comparable figures.

Deadlines

Dates are shown with the admissions cycle the school printed. A past date is marked passed and is never carried into a new cycle.

Application deadlines: not verified. We publish this only when the school states it on an official page.

Tuition and fees

Each amount keeps its applicant category, academic year and basis. Per-credit, per-year and whole-program figures are not comparable with each other.

Category	Amount	Basis and year
In-state — Undergraduate, main campus, Falcon Tuition Guarantee 2026-2027 cohort, Ohio resident, 12-18 credits (instructional and general fees)From the school's rate table for this level	$7,386.36	per semester · 2026-2027Includes feesSource: bgsu.edu · verified October 9, 2026
Out-of-state — Undergraduate, main campus, Falcon Tuition Guarantee 2026-2027 cohort, non-resident, 12-18 credits (instructional, general, and non-resident fees)From the school's rate table for this level	$11,380.56	per semester · 2026-2027Includes feesSource: bgsu.edu · verified October 9, 2026

Funding

We have not verified an official funding policy for this program. That does not mean funding is unavailable. “Fully funded” never means every personal expense is covered. How we classify funding

Funding not verified

Funding policy: not verified. We publish this only when the school states it on an official page.

Sources and verification

Every fact on this page comes from the official pages below. Last verified October 9, 2026.

bgsu.edu/academics/creative-writing.html — Official program page, verified October 9, 2026
bgsu.edu/arts-and-sciences/english/english-programs/creative-writing.html — Official program page, verified October 9, 2026
bgsu.edu/arts-and-sciences/english/people.html — Official program page, verified October 9, 2026
bgsu.edu/bursar/Falcon_Tuition_Guarantee_2025-20260.html — Official tuition and fees page, verified October 9, 2026

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