The NewPages Guide to Creative Writing Programs

Good Reading (and Research) Starts Here
An Introduction to the NewPages Guide to
Creative Writing Programs
by Denise Hill and Kirsten McIlvenna
This guide is meant to be a starting point to
help prospective students find schools, or
better yet, the school that will be their best
match. It is a place to begin researching
which schools seem most interesting—
based on any number of factors: genre,
type of program, length of program, costs,
approaches, faculty, and many other criteria.
For teachers, this guide is a tool for
best practices in advising students and
discovering other programs beyond
their own. Who’s teaching where? What
universities offer what type of programs?
Who’s on the leading edge for innovation in
higher learning in creative writing?
As a print resource, this guide is only a
start. We recommend using it alongside
our truly-meant-to-be exhaustive online
guide to creative writing programs (www.
newpages.com/writers-resources) which
includes separate listings for both graduate
and undergraduate programs. Here you will
find even more information for many of the
programs and up-to-date links directly to the
academic sites. If we’re missing any links
you think we should have, please just let us
know!
As much as we value this guide in
print copy, we realize changes happen
continuously and our job is to keep the
information updated. Therefore, a PDF
version of this publication is available online
and will be kept current with new editions
noted. Simply visit www.newpages.com/
cwprograms to download your free copy.
Over the past decades, NewPages has
come to be known as the most reliable
source for quality curation of all things
literary: publications, calls for submissions,
conferences, workshops, seminars,
academic writing programs, and so much
more. Our “guides to” are popular because
our work in this arena is trusted. We
have established and work diligently to
maintain positive relationships with editors,
publishers, and faculty and their academic
institutions.
We do not “rank” any of the programs
we list. Instead, we see our role as more
integral in helping network connections
between readers/writers and publications,
between students and prospective
programs, and so on. We don’t push,
we don’t prod, we simply provide. That’s
NewPages. Our motto “Good Reading
Starts Here,” means ‘reading’ for whatever
kind of research you are doing to engage in
the greater literary community.
By all means, see for yourself. Thumb
through this guide, mark it up, share it with
others, visit our full online resources, and
judge whether or not we are true to our
motto. If you find something that catches
your attention, makes you seek additional
information, and link out from our site, then
not only have we done our work, but you’ve
done yours: seeking out quality information
to guide your own interests and decision
making from a quality and valued resource.
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