UIC also offers an MA in English [3] with creative manuscript. MA and PhD students take writing workshops together.

The program is designed to prepare students for blended careers in writing, critical scholarship, and university teaching. Workshop courses are offered in short fiction, the novel, nonfiction, and poetry. The prose program also places an emphasis on cross-genre work, including flash fiction, flash nonfiction, flash novella, prose poetry, and verse novels. The poetry program places an emphasis on the lyric poem throughout literary history and in the twenty-first century.