How to find an agent, and more resources
Where to Send Your Work (an independent ranking of journals from 2023)
Writers Groups & Events (and search North Carolina Arts Council website)
The Arts Council of Wilmington & NHC
The UNCW Department of Creative Writing is a community of deeply committed writers who believe that the creation of art is valuable to self and culture. Their faculty encourages a rigorous yet safe, supportive environment in which diverse writers can grow as artists and as individuals. The BFA program for undergraduates and MFA program for graduates encourage writers to explore aesthetics and methods across genre lines through an informed application of craft. Whether you are an undergraduate writer, just starting down the path, or a more experienced one looking for support and guidance in the mastery of your art, the Creative Writing Department might have a program that will work for you. Explore the pages of this site, check out the well-published faculty, creative careers and prestigious publications and accolades of UNCW’s students and alumni, and the success of the program’s unique Publishing Laboratory with its hands-on curriculum for BFA and MFA students. Find out more about the Creative Writing Department’s award-winning semiannual journal, Ecotone, and its sister book imprint, Lookout Books.
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