The NewPages Guide to Creative Writing Programs

The NewPages Guide to Creative Writing Programs
Spalding University
MFA in Writing (low-res)
Website: www.spalding.edu/mfa
Address: 851 S. Fourth Street, Louisville, KY 40203
Program Director: Sena Jeter Naslund
Program Contact: Karen J. Mann
Phone: (800) 896-8941, ext. 4400 or (502) 873-4400
Degrees Offered: MFA in Writing (Spalding’s School of
Liberal Studies offers a BFA; see www.spalding.edu)
Type of Program: low-residency
Length of Program: 4 semesters, plus a graduation residency
Genres: fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, writing for children
and young adults, screenwriting, playwriting
Enrollment: about 70 per semester, fall, spring, summer
Total Credits Required: 65 credit hours
Application Deadlines: February 1 for spring and summer
semesters; August 1 for fall semester
Scholarships: yes (see website)
Assistantships: yes (see website)
Core Faculty: Sena Jeter Naslund, K. L. (Kenny) Cook,
Robin Lippincott, Silas House, Greg Pape, Jeanie Thompson,
Roy Hoffman, Dianne Aprile, Susan Campbell Bartoletti, Lesléa
Newman, Eric Schmiedl, and see www.spalding.edu/mfa for a
complete list.
Publishing/Editing Courses: no
Literary Magazines: The Louisville Review
Reading Series: Spalding’s Festival of Contemporary
Writing
Recent Visiting Writers: Jacqueline Woodson, Barry
Lopez, Ann Patchett, Yusef Komunyakaa, and more. For a
complete list, see www.spalding.edu/mfa
Program Description: Our 65-hour, brief-residency MFA in
Writing combines superb instruction with unparalleled flexibility.
Each semester of the program begins with a ten-day residency, in
which students and faculty gather for an intensive workshopping
and learning experience. At the conclusion of the residency,
students return home to study independently with a faculty mentor
for the rest of the semester. During the semester, each instructor
supervises a small number of students, and each student’s program
is highly individualized to meet each student at his or her level of
writing. Students may customize the location, season, and pace of
their studies.
Stony Brook Southampton
MFA in Creative Writing and Literature
Website: www.stonybrook.edu/mfa/
Address: 239 Montauk Highway, Southampton, NY 11968
Program Director: Julie Sheehan
Program Contact: Adrienne C. Unger
Phone: (631) 632-5030
Email: adrienne.unger@stonybrook.edu
Degrees Offered: MFA, Advanced Certificate
Type of Program: residency
Genres: fiction, poetry, nonfiction, scriptwriting, children’s
literature. Students are encouraged to experience different
genres throughout program.
Total Credits Required: 46
Application Deadlines: Jan. 15 for fall, Oct. 1 for spring
Scholarships: yes (see website)
Assistantships: yes (see website)
Core Faculty: Melissa Bank, Star Black, Billy Collins, Jules
Feiffer, Neal Gabler, Emma Walton Hamilton, Ursula Hegi,
Kaylie Jones, Matt Klam, Patty Marx, Patricia McCormick,
Daniel Menaker, Susan Scarf Merrell, Robert Reeves, Roger
Rosenblatt, Julie Sheehan, Frederic Tuten, Lou Ann Walker,
Meg Wolitzer
Publishing/Editing Courses: yes (see website)
Literary Magazine: The Southampton Review
Reading Series: yes (see website)
Recent Visiting Writers: Susan Cheever, Julia Glass,
Terence Hayes, Mary Karr, Heather McHugh, Susan Minot, Vijay
Seshadri, Grace Schulman
Program Description: At Stony Brook Southampton, we
welcome aspiring writers who seek to create original work primarily
in fiction, poetry, or creative nonfiction. We offer guidance that is
friendly, rigorous, professionally useful and hands on. Enrollment
in our writing workshops is capped at twelve. Unlike most MFA
programs, ours encourages students to take workshops in all
kinds of writing, rather than being tracked upon acceptance into a
single genre. We invite students to explore, in the belief that writing
outside their genres informs their primary areas of interest. Beyond
the familiar categories of fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction,
we offer workshops in other forms of creative expression relevant
to understanding and mastering a world constructed out of words
and images. Recent course offerings have included graphic novel,
children’s literature, and poetry with a bookmaking emphasis.
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