Creative Writing

Refine your storytelling skills with our Creative Writing degree program, where you'll explore poetry, fiction, nonfiction and more.

Degree: Associate in Arts
Program Type: Transfer Degree
Pathway: English
Additional Program Option: Hybrid
Credits: 64

Unleash your imagination

SUNY Adirondack's Creative Writing students study clear, vivid and effective communication. This program teaches technical and creative skills in writing and critical thinking.

Degree requirements Program sheet

Writing her future

Jana DeCamilla is seen in the CBS6 studios

I get so many compliments and kudos for my writing skills. I definitely had a flair for writing all along, but the skills and different kinds of writing I explored at SUNY Adirondack really opened doors for me."

Jana DeCamilla News reporter and digital content producer 2019

Write stuff

SUNY Adirondack's faculty has years of real-world experience, with published works and stories. Creative Writing students and professors work together to create our annual campus literary magazine, Expressions. The Writers Project brings published professional writers to campus. Published professionals visit your classes, answer questions and read from their work.

SUNY Adirondack Professor Lale Davidson leads a Creative Writing class discussion

A page in time

SUNY Adirondack's Creative Writing degree program prepares students for further education. We hold more than 30 seamless transfer opportunities. Our most popular transfer institutions for this program include: SUNY Oswego | Siena College | SUNY Cortland | SUNY Plattsburgh | New York University

A student in a Creative Writing class cheers during a discussion

Moving story

SUNY Adirondack's Creative Writing degree program prepares graduates for entry into the workforce. Students who plan not to continue their education have a variety of career options. Creative Writing graduates have developed and advanced writing skills, the ability to create content and critique the work of others, and critical thinking, creating opportunities for swift entry into the workforce. Common career paths include: Writers | Authors | Reporters

Careers in Creative Writing

Learning outcomes

Demonstrate an active and engaged writing practice with a realistic personal understanding of the writing process.
Demonstrate skill and originality with creative and critical language.
Demonstrate deep revision practices that improve voice, structure, imagery and originality.
Demonstrate understanding of terms, genres, and interpretation of literature and the application of these to their own writing in more than one genre.
Demonstrate awareness of professional presentation standards.
Demonstrate a broad academic background that promotes a full range of intellectual and artistic expression, exploration and development.

Our professors

Jessica Best, Ph.D.

Associate professor of English
Diversity coordinator

Anthony Cavaluzzi

Associate professor of English

K. Lale Davidson

Distinguished professor of English

Stephanie Drotos

Professor of English
Reading specialist

Robert Faivre

Professor of English
Coordinator of Assessment for the English Division

Peter Fernbach

Associate professor of English

Jeevan Gurung

Professor of English

Associate Professor of English Donna Hayles

Donna E. Hayles

Associate professor of English
Member of Diversity Committee

Krista Rivera

Assistant professor of English
Advisor of The Forest Bathing Book Club

Naftali Rottenstreich

Professor of English
Remedial specialist

Nancy White

Distinguished professor of English
English Division chair