西华盛顿大学英语系在重视创意发展和智力多功能性的社区内，提供为期两年的创意写作MFA课程。我们鼓励以多体裁或跨体裁写作为重点，因为我们认为有创意的写作毕业生应在理解体裁惯例方面具有多方面的才能，并应通过多种体裁相互交流的方式进行交流。我们提供的各种课程都强调多类型的重点，或者鼓励模糊类型界限的实验性作品。创意写作实践和文学学习在我们的课程中是协同的。学生参加有关创意写作和文学的研讨会，以及修辞思维和作文，数字和技术写作，电影研究以及语言学的课程。我们提供研究生助学金，以提供优质的教师培训，并提供机会获得屡
Western Washington University's English Department offers a 2-year MFA program in Creative Writing within a community that values creative development and intellectual versatility. We encourage a focus on multigenre or cross-genre writing, based on our view that creative writing graduates need to be versatile in their comprehension of genre conventions and conversant in the way diverse genres inform one another. A variety of courses we offer stress either a multigenre focus or encourage experimental works that blur genre boundaries.<br><br>Creative writing practice and literary study are synergistic in our program. Students take seminars in creative writing and literature, as well as courses in rhetorical thinking and composition, digital and technical writing, film studies, and linguistics. We offer Graduate Assistantships that provide quality teacher training, as well as opportunities to gain editorial experience with the award-winning journal Bellingham Review.