Advanced Creative Writing serves students who wish to receive graduate-level instruction in creative writing but are not currently admitted as students of Spalding’s Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing. With guidance from a faculty mentor, the student completes an Independent Study Plan, which includes the exchange of four packets of original creative writing. Each packet includes no more than 25 pages of student writing. The mentor provides critique and instruction to the student in a written or recorded response. Students complete evaluations. ENG-605 does not count as an MFA or MAW or certificate requirement.