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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 />
University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee<br />
<strong>Creative</strong> <strong>Writing</strong> Program :: MA, PhD<br />
Create on the shores of Lake Michigan at one of America’s<br />
first graduate English programs <strong>to</strong> grant both the M.A. and<br />
Ph.D. with concentrations in <strong>Creative</strong> <strong>Writing</strong>.<br />
Wyoming<br />
University of Wyoming<br />
MFA in <strong>Creative</strong> <strong>Writing</strong><br />
<strong>The</strong> University of Wyoming’s <strong>Creative</strong> <strong>Writing</strong> MFA<br />
program is an intensive two-year studio degree in poetry,<br />
fiction, and nonfiction. Special features include a flexible<br />
curriculum, cross-genre opportunities, opportunities<br />
for interdisciplinary study, and our Eminent Writers in<br />
Residence program, which brings distinguished authors<br />
<strong>to</strong> campus <strong>to</strong> work closely with our students. We have a<br />
deeply committed faculty, a lively visiting writers series, an<br />
incomparable natural setting, and full funding for students,<br />
including teaching assistantships with reasonable teaching<br />
loads, full tuition waivers, summer stipends, and support<br />
for travel and publication.<br />
see more details on page 31<br />
University of British Columbia - Vancouver<br />
<strong>Creative</strong> <strong>Writing</strong> Program :: MFA (online)<br />
Take distance education classes online while remaining<br />
at home. Optional summer intensives on the Vancouver<br />
campus of UBC enable you <strong>to</strong> meet faculty and other<br />
students face-<strong>to</strong>-face, and provide a complement <strong>to</strong> the<br />
work performed online.<br />
University of Calgary<br />
<strong>Creative</strong> <strong>Writing</strong> Program :: MA, PhD<br />
We offer an M.A. or Ph.D. in English with a <strong>Creative</strong><br />
<strong>Writing</strong> option. This means they will be taking literature<br />
courses as well as writing workshops.<br />
University of Guelph<br />
MFA in <strong>Creative</strong> <strong>Writing</strong><br />
Our degree program offers workshops in fiction, creative<br />
nonfiction, drama, and poetry. Defining characteristics<br />
of the program include innovative plenary courses, a<br />
semester-long men<strong>to</strong>rship with a professional writer,<br />
and the opportunity <strong>to</strong> design and teach creative writing<br />
workshops in a down<strong>to</strong>wn Toron<strong>to</strong> public school.<br />
see more details on page 27<br />
Canada<br />
Concordia University<br />
<strong>Creative</strong> <strong>Writing</strong> Program :: MA<br />
Our program combines an advanced scholarly education<br />
in English literature with a creative thesis and courses in<br />
the art and craft of writing poetry, plays, and prose fiction,<br />
under the supervision of award-winning writing faculty.<br />
University of Alberta<br />
<strong>Creative</strong> <strong>Writing</strong> Program :: MA<br />
MA students can pursue not only literary studies but also<br />
interests in film studies and creative writing in either the<br />
thesis-based MA or course-based MA.<br />
University of British Columbia - Okanagan<br />
<strong>Creative</strong> <strong>Writing</strong> Program :: MFA<br />
Students in the FCCS/IGS MFA can focus on the Visual<br />
Arts, Media Arts, <strong>Creative</strong> <strong>Writing</strong>, or Performance<br />
(<strong>The</strong>atre). <strong>The</strong>y can also combine those disciplines<br />
and other academic disciplines <strong>to</strong> form an individualized<br />
program of study.<br />
University of British Columbia - Vancouver<br />
<strong>Creative</strong> <strong>Writing</strong> Program :: MFA<br />
Offering an unprecedented 11 genres for potential study,<br />
students work in a learner-centered, workshop-driven<br />
program which offers an exciting breadth of choices,<br />
award-winning faculty and a setting in one of the world’s<br />
most beautiful cities.<br />
at<br />
LOW-RESIDENCY<br />
MFA IN MINNEAPOLIS<br />
augsburg.edu/mfa<br />
• Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Screenwriting, Playwriting<br />
• Teaching, Translation, Publishing<br />
• Home of the Augsburg Howling Bird Press<br />
National Book Prize<br />
2015 Poetry Winner<br />
Forthcoming This<br />
Summer<br />
2016 Prose Contest<br />
Opens April 1, 2015<br />
HOWLING<br />
BIRD<br />
PRESS<br />
AUGSBURG COLLEGE • MFA in <strong>Creative</strong> <strong>Writing</strong><br />
M I N N E A P O L I S • M I N N E S O T A<br />
www.augsburg.edu/mfa<br />
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