The NewPages Guide to Creative Writing Programs

The NewPages Guide to Creative Writing Programs
Eastern Washington University
MFA in Creative Writing
Website: www.ewumfa.com
Address: 668 N. Riverpoint Blvd #259,
Spokane, Washington 99202
Program Director: Jonathan Johnson (interim); Gregory
Spatz (sabbatical Fall 2014)
Program Contact: Kathy Minnerly
Phone: 509-828-1434
Email: kminnerly@ewu.edu
Degrees Offered: MFA, BA
Type of Program: residency
Length of Program: 2 years
Genres: fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry
Enrollment: 60
Total Credits Required: 72
Application Deadlines: February 15
Scholarships: yes (see website)
Assistantships: yes (see website)
Core Faculty: Gregory Spatz, Jonathan Johnson,
Christopher Howell, Natalie Kusz, Samuel Ligon, Rachel Toor
Visiting Faculty: John R. Keeble, Shawn Vestal, Jess
Walter, Melissa Kwasny
Publishing/Editing Courses: yes
Literary Magazine: Willow Springs
Reading Series: yes (see website)
Recent Visiting Writers: Jane Smiley, J. Allyn Rosser,
Lee Gutkind, Marilynne Robinson, Thomas Lynch, Tobias Wolff,
Jacqueline Mitchard, Stuart Dybeck
Program Description: The Inland Northwest Center for
Writers offers an intensive, two-year, pre-professional course
of study with an emphasis on the practice of literature as a fine
art. The program is intellectually rigorous and includes course
work in the study of literature from the vantage point of its
composition and history. The student’s principal work is done in
advanced workshops and in the writing a of a book-length thesis
of publishable quality in fiction, literary nonfiction, or poetry.
Goddard College
MFA in Creative Writing (low-res)
Website: www.goddard.edu/mfa-creative-writing
Address: 123 Pitkin Road, Plainfield, VT 05667
Program Director: Paul Selig
Program Contact: David De Lucca
Phone: (802) 322-1619
Email: david.delucca@goddard.edu
Degrees Offered: MFA
Type of Program: low-residency
Length of Program: 4 semesters
Genres: fiction, poetry, playwriting, memoir, screenwriting,
creative nonfiction, speculative fiction, young adult fiction,
graphic novel, scriptwriting
Enrollment: 100
Total Credits Required: 48
Application Deadlines: early December and late May;
exact dates vary
Scholarships: yes (see website)
Assistantships: no
Core Faculty: Kyle Bass, Ryan Boudinot, Deborah Brevoort,
Kenny Fries, Beatrix Gates, Elena Georgiou, Bhanu Kapil,
Susan Kim, Aimee Liu, Rogelio Martinez, Victoria Nelson,
Richard Panek, Rachel Pollack, Rahna Reiko Rizzuto, Darcey
Steinke
Publishing/Editing Courses: yes (see website)
Literary Magazine: Pitkin Review
Reading Series: Playwrights’ Enrichment Series
Recent Visiting Writers: Lynda Barry, Kathryn Davis,
Damien Echols, Nikky Finney, Todd Haynes, Tom Lutz
Program Description: In the Goddard College Creative
Writing program, students work with faculty advisors to
develop rigorous individualized study plans for finding and
strengthening their creative voices and creative professional
lives. The first low-residency writing program, the Goddard
MFA supports students writing fiction, poetry, memoir, plays,
screenplays, graphic novel scripts, and nonfiction. The faculty
are professional, working authors and also devoted, effective
teachers. Students can gain editing experience with the studentrun
Pitkin Review literary journal, and residencies include
publishing workshops. The Goddard MFA includes the unique
and rewarding teaching practicum, in which students teach
creative craft in workshop, community, and college settings.
Links to all programs at www.newpages.com
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