Writing, Editing and Publishing, MALS

Program Structure

The Writing, Editing and Publishing Program offers an innovative curriculum specially designed for people from diverse backgrounds committed to sharing their work with a wider audience. The program cultivates a mature workshop environment, both challenging and nurturing writers as they draft, refine and market their work. Focused on the craft of writing, the ways forms of writing are related to and can be transformed into one another, and the process of bringing personal and professional projects to fruition, the program also builds crucial professional skills in editing and managing. It offers writers practical strategies for navigating today’s wide-open writing environment and for understanding the entrepreneurial spirit, elements of design and aspects of the digital world that will help them do so. The program’s breadth and flexibility, its concern with the importance of writing for career and community, and its conviction that writers today must be able to write in many forms and for many audiences are carefully balanced with the individual writer’s desire for self-expression, for mastery of specific genres and content areas and for locating popular and literary markets where well-crafted work is appreciated.