Creative Writing (Minor)
Why minor in Creative Writing?
Whether you’re wishing to pursue writing as a career or for personal enrichment, Creative Writing provides an opportunity to express yourself and improve your craft as an author. With this minor, you’ll enhance your reading, writing, and editorial skills, as well as shape your literary voice and style.
The Creative Writing minor at Aurora University is designed to complement any major. You'll participate in small, workshop-style classes where you’ll write, revise, edit, and submit work for publication. Our poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction writing courses teach not only the craft of writing, but also the skills of giving and receiving meaningful feedback.
You’ll work with professors who are all active writers and can share their experience and expertise at the practical level. You’ll learn to revise your work, submit it to publishers, collaborate with editors, and query agents. You’ll also have the opportunity to gain editorial experience through AU’s two literary magazines, Elysian and Environmentalese.
The skills you’ll develop as a Creative Writing minor can be applied to a variety of careers outside of literary circles. Self-expression, creative problem-solving, and receiving and giving useful feedback are essential for positions in communications, marketing, and more. A minor in Creative Writing is also good preparation for those interested in pursuing an advanced degree, such as a Master of Fine Arts.
- Creative writing, editing, and publishing
- Creative nonfiction
- Fiction writing
- Poetry writing
- AU Creative Writing Club
- Elysian (literary magazine)
- Environmentalese (environmental academic journal)
Creative writing courses at AU have helped me find my voice and refine my writing skills. I want to help the next generation of young writers find their voice, just like my professors here at AU have helped me.Madalynn Sedgwick '25