The NewPages Guide to Creative Writing Programs

The NewPages Guide to Creative Writing Programs
Naropa University
Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics
MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics (res and low-res)
Website: www.naropa.edu/academics/jks/
Address: 2130 Arapahoe Avenue, Boulder, CO 80302
Program Director: Michelle Naka Pierce
Phone: (303) 546-3508
Email: JKS@naropa.edu
Degrees Offered: MFA, BA
Types of Programs: residency, low-residency
Genres: poetry, prose, cross-genre
Scholarships: yes (see website)
Assistantships: yes (see website)
Core Faculty: Anne Waldman (co-founder), Michelle Naka
Pierce (school director), J’Lyn Chapman (program coordinator),
Andrea Rexilius (SWP Coordinator), Junior Burke, Reed Bye,
Bhanu Kapil, Andrew Schelling
Publishing/Editing Courses: yes (see website)
Literary Magazines: Bombay Gin, not enough night,
Something on Paper
Reading Series: What Where
Recent Visiting Writers: Harryette Mullen, Alice Notley,
Lyn Hejinian, Gary Snyder, Juliana Spahr, Joan Retallac
Program Description: The Jack Kerouac School
emphasizes innovative approaches to literary arts. Our
programs problematize genre while cultivating contemplative
and experimental writing practices. Each year, we invite more
than sixty guest faculty to our internationally renowned Summer
Writing Program, a four-week colloquium of workshops, lectures,
and readings. This distinguishing feature fosters an intensely
creative environment for students to develop their writing
projects in conversation with a community of writers. Founded in
1974 by Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman, the Jack Kerouac
School consists of the undergraduate Core Writing Seminars, a
BA in Writing & Literature, a MFA in Writing & Poetics, and the
Summer Writing Program.
National University
MFA in Creative Writing (online)
Website: faculty.nu.edu/blogs/mcw/
Address: 5245 Pacific Concourse Drive, Suite 100, Los
Angeles, CA 90045
Program Director: Frank Montesonti
Program Contact: Frank Montesonti
Phone: (310) 662-2159
Email: fmontesonti@nu.edu
Degrees Offered: MFA
Type of Program: online
Length of Program: 20 months (min)
Genres: fiction, poetry, nonfiction, screenwriting
Total Credits Required: 58.5
Application Deadlines: rolling admissions, no deadlines
Scholarships: yes (see website)
Assistantships: no
Core Faculty: Frank Montesonti, Amina Cain, Colin Dickey,
Michael Zimmer
Visiting Faculty: Amanda Ackerman, Peter Bricklebank,
Brandi Megan Granett, Sheyene Foster Heller, Howard V.
Hendrix, Bryan Hurt, Marci Rae Johnson, Helen Kantor, Erin
Keane, Cheryl Klein, Kristi Maxwell, Thomas Pendleton, Seth
Sherwood, Carolyn Turgeon, David Womack
Publishing/Editing Courses: no
Literary Magazine: The GNU
Reading Series: no
Program Description: The National University MFA
program is a completely online program with no residency
requirements. Students may focus in fiction, creative nonfiction,
poetry, or screenwriting. We recognize that many students
cannot attend even a low-residency MFA because of the
residency requirements. Our MFA program allows students to
have the workshop experience at home, guided by published,
experienced faculty. The courses are conducted in electronic
classrooms and are asynchronous, so you don’t have to be
in the classroom at any certain time of day. We are friendly to
genre fiction of literary merit and fiction for young adults. Our
workshops are accelerated eight-week courses, and students
take only one course at a time. Students may also take elective
courses from the extensive course selections of our MA in
English Literature program.
Links to all programs at www.newpages.com
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