This collection includes Capstone Theses submitted by Hamline Master of Fine Arts in Writing for Children and Young Adults (MFAC) students. Capstones are the culminating degree work of the MFAC program. Student projects may be fiction, nonfiction, poetry, picture books, or graphic narrative scripts written for children and/or young adults and may be in any number of subgenres for each category. Students may also submit multiple projects in different genres as one piece (e.g., three picture book manuscripts and an excerpt from a young adult novel) as their creative thesis.

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