The NewPages Guide to Creative Writing Programs
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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 />
master of fine arts in creative writing<br />
place your voice<br />
chatham.edu/mfa<br />
Tracks in creative nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and writing for<br />
children & adolescents<br />
• An emphasis on nature, environmental, and travel writing<br />
encourages student <strong>to</strong> explore the world as part of their studies.<br />
Recent field seminars visited Costa Rica, India, Turkey, Vietnam,<br />
Iceland, and South Africa.<br />
• Opportunities <strong>to</strong> concentrate in travel writing, food writing, nature<br />
writing, publishing, or teaching.<br />
• Choose between a full-residency or low-residency curriculum,<br />
with the ability <strong>to</strong> move easily between the options.<br />
• Gain experience working on <strong>The</strong> Fourth River, Chatham’s national<br />
literary journal devoted <strong>to</strong> intersections of nature and culture.<br />
http://fourthriver.chatham.edu<br />
• Students may choose <strong>to</strong> teach creative writing in jails, prisons,<br />
and rehabilitation centers in the Words Without Walls program.<br />
• Fellowships available.<br />
• Recognized as one of “Five Innovative/Unique <strong>Programs</strong>” by <strong>The</strong><br />
Atlantic Monthly and one of “Nine Distinctive <strong>Programs</strong>” by Poets<br />
& Writers.<br />
MFA FAculty<br />
Sheryl St. Germain, direc<strong>to</strong>r<br />
Sally Alexander<br />
Kathy Ayres<br />
Mara Cregan<br />
Sherrie Flick<br />
Melanie Dylan Fox<br />
64<br />
Lori Jakiela<br />
Joy Katz<br />
Heather McNaugher<br />
Abby Mendelson<br />
Marc Nieson<br />
Sandy Sterner<br />
Sheila Squillante<br />
Recent And upcoMing Visi<strong>to</strong>Rs<br />
Jimmy Santiago Baca Ander Monson<br />
Robert Hass<br />
Dinty W. Moore<br />
Pam Hous<strong>to</strong>n<br />
Naomi Shihab Nye<br />
Barbara Hurd<br />
Claudia Rankine<br />
Ted Kooser<br />
Janisse Ray<br />
Phillip Lopate<br />
BK Loren<br />
Pattiann Rogers<br />
Links <strong>to</strong> all programs at www.newpages.com
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