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<strong>The</strong> <strong>NewPages</strong> <strong>Guide</strong> <strong>to</strong> <strong>Creative</strong> <strong>Writing</strong> <strong>Programs</strong><br />
<strong>The</strong> University of Illinois at Chicago<br />
Program for Writers :: MA, PhD<br />
<strong>The</strong> MA degree is an ideal choice for those students who<br />
wish <strong>to</strong> continue their studies for professional development<br />
or for further academic work at the PhD level.<br />
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign<br />
MFA in <strong>Creative</strong> <strong>Writing</strong><br />
he MFA degree at UIUC provides students with graduate<br />
study and professional training in the writing of fiction<br />
and poetry with our distinguished graduate faculty: Philip<br />
Graham, LeAnne Howe, Janice N. Harring<strong>to</strong>n, Brigit<br />
Pegeen Kelly, Michael Madonick, and Alex Shakar. <strong>The</strong><br />
degree’s primary goal is <strong>to</strong> give writers time and space <strong>to</strong><br />
work on perfecting their art.<br />
see more details on page 28<br />
Indiana<br />
Ball State University<br />
<strong>Creative</strong> <strong>Writing</strong> Program :: MA<br />
<strong>The</strong> English master’s degree in creative writing is a<br />
flexible, innovative, two-year program that encourages<br />
cross-genre study through graduate workshops in poetry,<br />
fiction, creative nonfiction, screenwriting, and graduate<br />
literature seminars.<br />
Write Your Book.<br />
Master of Fine Arts in <strong>Creative</strong> <strong>Writing</strong><br />
Join a community that includes 36<br />
graduates who published books in 2013.<br />
Concentrations are offered in fiction,<br />
nonfiction, poetry, and writing for children.<br />
Live the writer’s life in New York City.<br />
www.newschool.edu/writeyourbook5<br />
Butler University<br />
MFA in <strong>Creative</strong> <strong>Writing</strong><br />
<strong>The</strong> MFA is a 36-hour studio MFA that includes ten<br />
three-credit courses and six hours of formal thesis work<br />
with an advisor. We offer programs in poetry, fiction, and<br />
nonfiction, as well as electives in screenwriting, young<br />
adult fiction, poetic form, literary editing and publishing,<br />
and teaching creative writing. We offer <strong>to</strong>p-flight, full-time<br />
faculty, nationally recognized visiting faculty, and one of<br />
the finest visiting writers series in the country.<br />
see more details on page 9<br />
Indiana State University<br />
Specialization in <strong>Writing</strong> :: MA<br />
For the culminating experience, creative writing students<br />
produce a thesis-length project—for instance, a novel or a<br />
collection of s<strong>to</strong>ries or poems.<br />
Indiana University - Blooming<strong>to</strong>n<br />
<strong>Creative</strong> <strong>Writing</strong> Program :: MFA<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Creative</strong> <strong>Writing</strong> Program at Indiana University in<br />
Blooming<strong>to</strong>n offers a Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) degree in<br />
fiction and poetry.<br />
Indiana University South Bend<br />
<strong>Creative</strong> <strong>Writing</strong> Program :: MA<br />
IU South Bend’s Master of Arts in English equips students<br />
with skills that are highly valued by employers and provide<br />
strong intellectual enrichment, including writing and<br />
analytical skills.<br />
Purdue University<br />
<strong>Creative</strong> <strong>Writing</strong> Program :: MFA<br />
Established in 1987, the English Department’s graduate<br />
program in creative writing gives poets and fiction writers<br />
the opportunity <strong>to</strong> develop their work in a supportive<br />
atmosphere which values originality and a vital literary<br />
tradition.<br />
University of Notre Dame<br />
<strong>Creative</strong> <strong>Writing</strong> Program :: MFA<br />
<strong>The</strong> program is a course of study with the flexibility for<br />
students <strong>to</strong> initiate a variety of literary lives through<br />
exposure <strong>to</strong> a range of aesthetics, a global literary<br />
orientation, course work in his<strong>to</strong>rical and contemporary<br />
literary forms, and interaction with visiting authors.<br />
Iowa<br />
THE NEW SCHOOL<br />
Equal Opportunity Institution<br />
Pho<strong>to</strong> by Martin Seck<br />
Iowa State University<br />
<strong>Creative</strong> <strong>Writing</strong> Program :: MFA<br />
This program emphasizes study in poetry, fiction,<br />
nonfiction, and drama that encourages writers <strong>to</strong> identify<br />
and explore in their s<strong>to</strong>ries and lyric impressions the<br />
complex influences of place, the natural world, and the<br />
environmental imagination.<br />
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