University of North Carolina Wilmington · Department of Creative Writing

Creative Writing, BFA

BFABachelor of Fine Arts in Creative WritingFunding not verified

Overview

A BFA in which students write fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction without specialty tracks. Students declare pre-creative writing after 24 credit hours and gain full admission by application with a portfolio; an optional 15-credit publishing certificate can be added.

Official program name: Creative Writing, BFA
Awarded degree: Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing
Source: uncw.edu · verified October 9, 2026
School: University of North Carolina Wilmington — Department of Creative Writing
Source: uncw.edu · verified October 9, 2026
Location: Wilmington, NC
Delivery / residency: Format not verified
Study intensity: Not verified
Duration: Not verified
Required credits: 63 credit hours in the program
Source: uncw.edu · verified October 9, 2026
Teaching language: English (not separately stated)

Why this degree is listed

The department's undergraduate program leads to a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Creative Writing.

Source: uncw.edu · verified October 9, 2026

We list dedicated creative writing degrees only. Eligibility rules

Curriculum, genres and faculty

Genres

Fiction Poetry Creative Nonfiction

Source: uncw.edu · verified October 9, 2026

Workshops

Variations of the traditional workshop model.
Source: uncw.edu · verified October 9, 2026

Other

Optional 15-credit-hour certificate in publishing added to the BFA.
Source: uncw.edu · verified October 9, 2026

Faculty listed by the program

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

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”.

Other requirement: RequiredFull major admission by application only after at least 24 college credit hours, CRW 201 and 203, and CRW 207, 208, and 209 with at least a B in one
Source: uncw.edu · verified October 9, 2026

Writing portfolio

Genre	Length	Requirement as published
Any / all genres	—	Creative work/portfolio reviewed by facultySource: uncw.edu · verified October 9, 2026

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We do not publish acceptance rates or estimate competitiveness: programs rarely publish comparable figures.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 deadline
January 31 and September 15 (5 p.m.) for full BFA major admission
The school does not print a year with this date.
Source: uncw.edu · verified October 9, 2026
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Tuition and fees

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

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.

uncw.edu/academics/colleges/chssa/departments/writing/undergraduate-programs.html — Official program page, verified October 9, 2026
uncw.edu/academics/majors-programs/chssa/creative-writing-bfa/index.html — Official program page, verified October 9, 2026
uncw.edu/academics/majors-programs/chssa/creative-writing-mfa/ — Official program page, verified October 9, 2026

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