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The NewPages Guide to Creative Writing Programs University of Arkansas at Monticello MFA in Creative Writing (online) Website: www.uamont.edu/Arts_and_Humanities/mfa/ Address: 562 University Drive, Monticello, AR 71656 Program Director: Diane Payne Phone: (870) 460-1247 Email: payne@uamont.edu Degrees Offered: MFA Type of Program: online Length of Program: 2 years Genres: fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry Enrollment: 10 Total Credits Required: 48 Application Deadlines: rolling Scholarships: no Assistantships: yes (see website) Core Faculty: Suzanne Cope, Karen Dietrich, Sandy Longhorn, Peter Nichols, Diane Payne, Jessica Piazza, Adam Prince, Mark Spencer Publishing/Editing Courses: yes (see website) Literary Magazine: Gravel Literary Magazine Reading Series: yes (see website) Program Description: The UAM Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing provides opportunity to talented and highly self-disciplined individuals to earn an MFA tailored to fit their lifestyles, interests, and goals at an affordable price relative to other MFA programs and to develop their creative-writing, critical-thinking, and literary analysis skills to an exemplary level through study under successful and dedicated writer-teachers from a range of backgrounds and aesthetic perspectives. The mission of the program is directly related to the mission of the university in that it enhances individuals’ abilities to think creatively and critically, to effectively communicate, to be technologically literate, to appreciate and contribute to the cultures of their communities and beyond, and to possess awareness and sensitivity to global issues. See display ad on page 35. 26 University of California, Riverside – Palm Desert Center MFA in Creative Writing & Writing for the Performing Arts (low-res) Website: palmdesertmfa.ucr.edu Address: 75-080 Frank Sinatra Drive, Palm Desert, CA 92211 Program Director: Tod Goldberg Program Contact: Agam Patel Phone: (760) 834-0926 Email: palmdesertmfa@ucr.edu Degrees Offered: MFA Type of Program: low-residency Length of Program: 2 years Genres: fiction, nonfiction, screenwriting, poetry – students also work in a secondary genre, effectively as a minor, which includes the above genres as well as playwriting Total Credits Required: 56 Application Deadlines: Aug. 1 (for fall enrollment), Feb. 1 (for spring enrollment) Scholarships: yes (see website) Assistantships: no Core Faculty: Michael Birnbaum, Elizabeth Crane, Jill Alexander Essbaum, Gina Frangello, Tod Goldberg, Stephen Graham Jones, Kevin Jones, Joshua Malkin, Anthony McCann, Mary Otis, William Rabkin, Emily Rapp, Rob Roberge, John Schimmel, Mark Haskell Smith, Deanne Stillman, David L. Ulin, Mary Yukari Waters Visiting Faculty: see website for updated list Publishing/Editing Courses: yes (see website) Literary Magazine: The Coachella Review Reading Series: yes (see website) Recent Visiting Writers: Jane Smiley, Dan Chaon, Dave Cullen, Steve Almond, Amy Gerstler, Geoff Dyer, Susan Straight, Phoef Sutton, editors from Simon & Schuster, Grove, Viking, Penguin, Other Voices, Dzanc, No Tell Books, Paris Review, New York Times, The Collagist, Los Angeles Times Program Description: The low residency MFA program at UCR-Palm Desert, the first such program in the University of California system, is unique in that it directly marries your academic pursuits with a real world emphasis on the next stage of your writing career—namely publication and production. Students work oneon-one with their professors during the course of seven quarters of online study and five intensive 10-day residencies at the beautiful Rancho Las Palmas Resort & Spa in Rancho Mirage, CA. The program was designed and is taught by writers for writers and is open to all genres of writing. Links to all programs at www.newpages.com
The NewPages Guide to Creative Writing Programs University of Guelph MFA in Creative Writing Website: guelphcreativewritingmfa.com Mailing Address: P.O. Box 187, Station E, Toronto, ON M6H 4E2, Canada Physical address: University of Guelph Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, (at The University of Guelph Humber) 207 Humber College Blvd, Toronto, ON M9W 5L7, Canada Program Director: Catherine Bush Program Contact: Meaghan Strimas Phone: (647) 459-1331 Email: mstrimas@uoguelph.ca Degrees Offered: MFA Type of Program: residency Length of Program: 2 years, full-time Genres: creative nonfiction, drama, fiction, poetry Enrollment: 24 Application Deadlines: December 16 Scholarships: yes (see website) Core Faculty: Dionne Brand, Catherine Bush, Judith Thompson, Karen Connelly, Russell Smith, Michael Winter Visiting Faculty: Aleksandar Hemon, Sheila Heti, Yann Martel, Lisa Moore, John Mighton, Shyam Selvadurai, Michael Ondaatje, Fransciso Goldman, Emma Donoghue, Heather O’Neill, A.L. Kennedy, Ben Lerner, Karen Solie, Dennis Lee, Margaret Christakos Publishing/Editing Courses: no Reading Series: Speakeasy Recent Visiting Writers: Aleksandar Hemon, Sheila Heti, Yann Martel, John Mighton, Lisa Moore, Shyam Selvadurai Program Description: Since September 2006, the University of Guelph has offered an exciting Master of Fine Arts (MFA) Program in Creative Writing, located in the University of Guelph-Humber building on the north campus of Humber College in Toronto. Our stellar faculty includes Dionne Brand, Catherine Bush, and Judith Thompson as well as associated faculty Karen Connelly, Russell Smith, and Michael Winter, among others. We offer workshops in creative nonfiction, drama, fiction, and poetry. University of Idaho MFA in Creative Writing Website: www.uidaho.edu/class/english/mfaincreativewriting Mailing address: Department of English, PO Box 441102, Moscow, ID 83844-1102 Physical Address: 875 Perimeter Drive, Moscow, ID 83844 Program Director: Bret Shepard Program Contact: Bret Shepard Phone: (208) 885-6156 Email: bshepard@uidaho.edu Degrees Offered: MFA Type of Program: residency Length of Program: 3 years Genres: fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction Enrollment: 36 Total Credits Required: 54 Application Deadlines: January 15 Scholarships: yes (see website) Assistantships: yes (see website) Core Faculty: Robert Wrigley, Kim Barnes, Alexandra Teague, Mary Clearman Blew, Daniel Orozco, Brandon R. Schrand, Joy Passanante, Ron McFarland, Scott Slovic, Bret Shepard Publishing/Editing Courses: yes (see website) Literary Magazine: Fugue Reading Series: yes (see website) Recent Visiting Writers: Natasha Tretheway, Patricia Hampl, Mark Halliday, Tony Earley, Jo Ann Beard, Chris Abani, Linda Bierds, Benjamin Percy Program Description: While we require applicants to apply only in one genre, we encourage them to “cross-pollinate” once they are admitted. We believe the poet has as much to gain from learning the narrative pacing of prose as the prose writer does from the placement of a single word. We encourage students to experiment and to push themselves in new directions. But we also insist that they know where they fit in the continuum of writers of their genre, and that they understand and can speak to that tradition. Links to all programs at www.newpages.com 27
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