The NewPages Guide to Creative Writing Programs

The NewPages Guide to Creative Writing Programs
Ashland University
MFA in Creative Writing (low-res)
Website: www.ashland.edu/graduate/mfa
Address: 401 College Avenue, Ashland, OH 44805
Program Director: Stephen Haven
Program Contact: Wendy Hall, Administrative Director
Phone: (419) 289-5957
Email: mfa@ashland.edu
Degrees Offered: MFA
Type of Program: low-residency
Length of Program: 4 semesters and 3 summer sessions
Genres: poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction
Enrollment: 72 maximum in summer sessions, 48 during year
Total Credits Required: 45
Application Deadlines: September 1 priority deadline
for Spring Semester – rolling admissions through December
31; February 1 priority deadline for Summer/rolling admissions
through July 1 for Summer/Fall
Scholarships: no
Assistantships: no
Core Faculty: Jill Christman, Angie Estes, Steven Harvey,
Stephen Haven, William Haywood Henderson, Mark Irwin,
Daniel W. Lehman, Thomas Larson, EJ Levy, Joe Mackall,
Celeste Ng, Robert Root, Ruth L. Schwartz, Porter Shreve
Publishing/Editing Courses: no
Literary Magazine: River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction
Narrative
Press: Ashland Poetry Press
Reading Series: yes (see website)
Recent Visiting Writers: Garrett Hongo, Laura Kasischke,
Alicia Ostriker, Cheryl Strayed, Judith Kitchen, Kristen Iversen,
David St. John, Rosanna Warren (see website for additional
visiting writers)
Program Description: Ashland University offers degree
tracks in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction with a cross-genre
option. The program is characterized both by an insistence on
high aesthetic standards for the creation of new literature and by
an emphasis on a supportive community of writers. Following the
University’s century-old tradition of “Accent on the Individual”, the
MFA at AU provides writers a nurturing and challenging atmosphere
for developing their craft, with a student-teacher ratio of no greater
than 5 to 1 in each course.
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Augsburg College
MFA in Creative Writing (low-res)
Website: www.augsburg.edu/mfa
Address: 2211 Riverside Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55454
Program Director: Cass Dalglish
Program Contact: Kathleen Matthews
Phone: (612) 330-1778
Email: matthewk@augsburg.edu
Degrees Offered: MFA
Type of Program: low-residency
Length of Program: 2 years
Genres: fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, screenwriting,
playwriting
Enrollment: 20
Total Credits Required: 44 for MFA; 48 with
Concentration in Teaching or Translation; 52 with Concentration
in Publishing
Application Deadline: ongoing until the program reaches
enrollment caps for each genre with new cohorts beginning each
July
Scholarships: no
Assistantships: yes (see website)
Core Faculty: Nicole Brending, Stephan Clark, Cass
Dalglish, Jack El-Hai, Heid E. Erdrich, John Gaterud, Christina
Lazaridi, Sarah Myers, Cary Waterman, Steven Wingate
Publishing/Editing Courses: yes (see website)
Press: Howling Bird Press
Reading Series: www.augsburg.edu/mfa/readings/
Recent Visiting Writers: Ed Bok Lee, Christina Lazaridi,
Benjamin Percy, Sue William Silverman, Deborah Blum,
Kristoffer Diaz, Alex Lemon, Helene Wecker, Bill Wheeler, Pam
Houston, Ken Rance, Carson Kreitzer
Program Description: Come to the Twin Cities and be
a part of a vibrant literary community where you’ll engage the
world thoughtfully, deepen and broaden your artistic sensibilities,
and enjoy individual attention with a 5:1 student to faculty
mentor ratio. The Augsburg MFA in creative writing is a two-year
low-residency program with tracks in fiction, creative nonfiction,
poetry, screenwriting and playwriting and concentrations in
translation, teaching, and publishing. Students enrolled in the
MFA’s publishing sequence are the editors of a literary press
that sponsors a national writing competition and publishes a
book-length collection of prose or poetry each year.
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