The NewPages Guide to Creative Writing Programs

The NewPages Guide to Creative Writing Programs
University of North Carolina Wilmington
MFA in Creative Writing
Website: www.uncw.edu/writers/mfa/
Address: UNCW Department of Creative Writing, 601 S.
College Rd., Wilmington, NC 28403
Program Director/Contact: Mark Cox
Phone: (910) 962-3331
Email: coxm@uncw.edu
Degrees Offered: MFA
Type of Program: residency
Length of Program: 3 years
Genres: creative nonfiction, fiction, poetry
Enrollment: 75
Total Credits Required: 48
Application Deadline: January 5
Scholarships: yes (see website)
Assistantships: yes (see website)
Core Faculty: Lavonne Adams, Wendy Brenner, May-lee
Chai, Mark Cox, Clyde Edgerton, Phil Furia, Philip Gerard,
David Gessner , Nina de Gramont , Rebecca Lee, Beth Staples,
Malena Mörling, Anna Lena Phillips, Robert Siegel , Emily L.
Smith, and Michael White
Visiting Faculty: Cristina García, Allan Gurganus, Elizabeth
Kostova, ZZ Packer, Donna Tartt, Diana Hume George, Melanie
McGrath, Terry Tempest Williams, David Wright, John Jeremiah
Sullivan, Carolyn Forché, A. Van Jordan, Timothy Liu, Mary
Ruefle, Gerald Stern
Publishing/Editing Courses: yes (see website)
Literary Magazine: Ecotone
Literary Imprint: Lookout Books
Reading Series: Creative Writing Reading Calendar
Recent Visiting Writers: Hope Edelman, Jason Mott,
Natasha Tretheway, Cynthia Huntington, Bob Reiss, Bill Roorbach
Program Description: Our MFA program—an intensive,
three-year studio-academic experience in the writing of fiction,
poetry, and creative nonfiction—joins students who share a
common passion and faculty members who provide critical support
of their work. The faculty of the Department of Creative Writing
view MFA students as colleagues-in-the-making, and consider it a
privilege to teach in such a community. Our invitation to successful
candidates to join our MFA community is regarded as an equal
privilege. We do all that we can to mentor our MFA students to
successful lives as writers; in return we ask that they contribute
something of value to our writing community.
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University of South Carolina
MFA in Creative Writing
Website: artsandsciences.sc.edu/engl/mfa-program-carolina
Address: Department of English, University of South
Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208
Program Director: David Bajo
Program Contact: Liz Countryman
Email: countrym@mailbox.sc.edu
Degrees Offered: MFA
Type of Program: residency
Length of Program: 3 years
Genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry
Enrollment: 36
Total Credits Required: 45
Application Deadlines: December 15
Scholarships: yes (see website)
Assistantships: yes (see website)
Core Faculty: Samuel Amadon, David Bajo, James Barilla,
Elise Blackwell, Fred Dings, Nikky Finney
Publishing/Editing Courses: yes (see website)
Literary Magazine: Yemassee
Reading Series: yes (see website)
Recent Visiting Writers: Ian McEwan, Aleksandar
Hemon, Jennifer Egan, Martin Amis, Marilynne Robinson, Teju
Cole, George Saunders
Program Description: The University of South Carolina
MFA blends the camaraderie of a small program with the
resources of a large English department. Students work closely
with well-published and supportive faculty and interact frequently
with both internationally acclaimed and emerging visiting writers.
All admitted students receive substantial funding. Intensive
yet collegial workshops comprise the program’s center, while
students also receive world-class training in literary study with
optional opportunities in pedagogy, editing, and outreach in a
vibrant, inexpensive, and relaxed college city.
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