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The NewPages Guide to Creative Writing Programs University of Texas at Dallas Creative Writing Program :: MA, PhD Graduate students may choose a creative writing emphasis in their overall degree program, or they may take creative writing courses to fulfill requirements in the Aesthetic Studies track, or they may choose creative writing courses as electives. University of Texas at El Paso Creative Writing Program :: MFA Taking advantage of our geographic and cultural space, we have developed a unique program that is bilingual in nature and seeks to include the many literary traditions of the Americas as the foundation for our students’ literary development. University of Texas at San Antonio Creative Writing Program :: Certificate The certificate is a 12 credit hour concentration available to degree-seeking students who have been admitted to any UTSA graduate program, as well as non-degree seeking graduate students who meet all the requirements. Utah Brigham Young University Creative Writing Program :: MFA Our two-year program offers workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction taught by award-winning faculty members. Opportunities abound to teach first-year and advanced writing courses, as well as complete an internship in the teaching of creative writing. University of Utah Creative Writing Program :: MFA, PhD The Department of English offers two graduate degrees in Creative Writing: an MFA and a PhD that prepares students to pursue careers as teachers of writing. The creative writing faculty also sponsors an annual Guest Writers Series. UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA low residency MFA In WRITING Live a literary life in a community of dedicated writers POETRY FICTION NONFICTION PLAYWRITING YOUNG ADULT www.unomaha.edu/unmfaw 58 Links to all programs at www.newpages.com
The NewPages Guide to Creative Writing Programs Vermont Bennington College Creative Writing Program :: MFA (low-res) The Bennington Graduate Writing Seminars Low- Residency program can be seen as the response of the literary sensibility to the realities of modern life. It is an alternative time calculation, realistically reflecting the seasons and rhythms of a writer’s actual work habits. Goddard College MFA in Creative Writing (low-res) In the Goddard College Creative Writing program, students work with faculty advisors to develop rigorous individualized study plans for finding and strengthening their creative voices and creative professional lives. The first low-residency writing program, the Goddard MFA supports students writing fiction, poetry, memoir, plays, screenplays, graphic novel scripts, and nonfiction. The faculty are professional, working authors and also devoted, effective teachers. see more details on page 13 Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing, MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults (low-res) The Master of Fine Arts in Writing and Master of Fine Arts in Writing for Children & Young Adults programs are designed for students with a serious interest in developing professional skills in writing poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction and writing for young readers. VCFA’s internationally acclaimed writers and highly dedicated teachers attract students from all corners of the world to the rigorous and uniquely supportive community. see more details on page 32 Virginia George Mason University Creative Writing Program :: MFA The master of fine arts in creative writing has three concentrations: poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Admission is competitive. Hollins University Jackson Center for Creative Writing MFA in Creative Writing Our intensive two-year studio/hybrid MFA program helps you find your way in an atmosphere of cooperation and encouragement. We support college graduates who want to concentrate on craft and on reading the way writers do. The 24 students in this highly regarded program work successfully in poetry, short fiction, novels, and creative nonfiction—and between genres, too. see more details on page 14 Links to all programs at www.newpages.com Longwood University Creative Writing Program :: MA The MA program is designed as “An Education for the Working Writer” and will offer the rare combination of artistic and professional training to provide graduates with a very real edge with which to meet this market’s consistent demands. Lynchburg College Creative Writing Program :: MA Program strengths include eco-literature and writing; Appalachian and southern literature and writing; transnational literature; and gender studies. Old Dominion University Creative Writing Program :: MFA In addition to taking workshops and craft courses with the MFA faculty, our students take courses with dynamic faculty who have expertise in American, British, and world literature, as well as literary theory, film studies, and rhetoric. University of Virginia Creative Writing Program :: MFA Our Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program is a two-year graduate degree in fiction or poetry writing. The program is full-time and workshop-based, with a small, but aesthetically diverse group of students and faculty. Virginia Commonwealth University Creative Writing Program :: MFA Nationally ranked three year program in poetry, fiction and duel genre with increased graduate teaching assistantships and new stipends ranging from $14,000- $22,000. Virginia Tech Creative Writing Program :: MFA All students fully funded through Graduate Teaching Assistantships with annual stipends of $16,000. A threeyear program in fiction and poetry; funding package includes full tuition remission and health insurance. Washington Eastern Washington University MFA in Creative Writing The Inland Northwest Center for Writers Master of Fine Arts program is an intensive, two-year, pre-professional course of study with an emphasis on the practice of literature as a fine art. The program includes course work in the study of literature from the vantage point of its composition and history. see more details on page 13 Northwest Institute of Literary Arts Creative Writing Program :: MFA 59
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