The NewPages Guide to Creative Writing Programs

The NewPages Guide to Creative Writing Programs
Holy Names University
Master of Arts in English: The Writer’s Craft
Website: www.hnu.edu
Address: 3500 Mountain Boulevard, Oakland, CA 94619
Program Director: Anne F. Walker, PhD
Program Contact: Stacy Johnson
Phone Number: (510) 436-1195
Degrees Offered: MA
Type of Program: residency
Length of Program: 2 years
Genres: creative writing, professional writing, teaching writing
Enrollment: 30
Total Credits Required: 33
Application Deadlines: rolling (no deadlines)
Scholarships: no
Assistantships: yes (see website)
Core Faculty: Anne F. Walker, PhD; Nina Handler, MA;
Kathy Garlick, PhD
Publishing/Editing Courses: yes (see website)
Literary Magazine: Between the Lines
Recent Visiting Writers: Sonia Nazario, Belo Cipriani,
David Goldweber
Program Description: In The Writer’s Craft you will find
time to write, workshops, one-on-one interaction with faculty,
exposure to a variety of writing genres, literary events, time
dedicated to understanding promotion and handling of your
work, and engagement with other serious writers. You will find
community. All of this is in the vibrant literary milieu of the San
Francisco Bay Area. The program is newly re-imagined and
online applications are free.
At the center of our program are classes designed to foster
community. In these classes students work closely with their
cohort to support and develop one another’s writing. English
108 A, B, and C (generally in the fall and early spring of the first
year) are designed to help students understand one another
as colleagues and concurrently focus individual paths through
professional writing pertinent to their specific interests. The
Writer’s Project (generally in spring of the final year) provides an
opportunity for students to join together to workshop final thesis
projects in an atmosphere of collegial and faculty support.
Lesley University
MFA in Creative Writing (low-res)
Website: www.lesley.edu/mfa-creative-writing
Address: 29 Everett Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Program Director: Steven Cramer
Program Contact: Graduate Admissions
Phone: (617) 349-8300
Email: luadmissions@lesley.edu
Degrees Offered: MFA
Type of Program: low-residency
Length of Program: 2 years
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, writing for stage & screen,
writing for young people
Enrollment: 100
Total Credits Required: 49
Application Deadlines: 9/1 for January/spring residency;
3/1 for June/fall residency
Scholarships: yes (see website)
Assistantships: no
Core Faculty: Erin Belieu, Jami Brandli, Barry Brodsky, Jane
Brox, Sharon Bryan, Teresa Cader, Rafael Campo, Leah Hager
Cohen, Pat Lowery Collins, David Elliott, Tony Eprile, Laurie
Foos, Susan Goodman, Joan Houlihan, Rachel Kadish, Hester
Kaplan, Michael Lowenthal, Bill Lychack, Chris Lynch, Rachel
Manley, Cate Marvin, Kyoko Mori, Ronan Noone, Pamela Petro,
Kevin Prufer, Christina Shea, Kate Snodgrass, Justin Torres,
Sinan Ünel, A.J. Verdelle, Sara Zarr
Publishing/Editing Courses: yes (see website)
Reading Series: yes (see website)
Recent Visiting Writers: Nikky Finney, Jack Gantos,
Louise Glück, Vivian Gornick, Tom Perotta, Theresa Rebeck
Program Description: Ranked #4 among low-residency
MFA Programs by Poets & Writers, and the only such
program located in a major U.S. literary city, Lesley offers five
concentrations: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Writing for Stage
and Screen, and Writing for Young People. Our graduates have
published books, been featured in prestigious journals, won
major literary prizes and fellowships, had theatrical productions,
and found teaching positions in numerous schools and colleges.
The faculty are celebrated writers and passionate teachers.
The program’s Interdisciplinary Studies component nourishes
students’ writing and aspirations to be working writers.
Links to all programs at www.newpages.com
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