CCA’s creative and innovative community
At California College of the Arts you will study writing and literature with full access to the Bay Area's rich literary history and population of accomplished writers. In writing workshops you will explore traditional prose and poetry, and experiment with drama, the graphic novel, screenwriting, improvisation, and beyond. Your literature courses will range from the historical and foundational to the contemporary and experimental.

CCA students benefit from the breadth of our 21 undergraduate programs. Film, graphic design, illustration, and printmaking are just a few of the fields you can explore.

Learn from the very best
CCA faculty members are recognized as innovators in the field, including the prose writer Tom Barbash (author of the New York Times best seller On Top of the World); the poet Gloria Frym (author of Solution Simulacra); and graphic novelist Matt Silady (Eisner award nominee for The Homeless Channel).

Our faculty of professional writers will prepare you for your transition to professional life. You will have the opportunity to participate in our monthly faculty-student reading series Hearsay and the student-run literary journal Humble Pie.