The NewPages Guide to Creative Writing Programs

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
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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
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