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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. 8 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. See display ad on page 61. Links to all programs at www.newpages.com
The NewPages Guide to Creative Writing Programs Bard College Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts MFA in Creative Writing (low-res) Website: www.bard.edu/mfa/ Address: Bard College MFA, 30 Campus Road, PO Box 5000, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504 Program Director: Arthur Gibbons Program Contact: Elizabeth Marshall Phone: (845) 758-7483 Email: mfa@bard.edu Degrees Offered: MFA Type of Program: low-residency Length of Program: 26 months (3 summers) Genres: any, but most suited to poetry, short fiction, sound, internet, and mixed-media writing Enrollment: 12 Total Credits Required: 60 Application Deadlines: January 15 Scholarships: yes (see website) Assistantships: no Core Faculty: Anselm Berrigan, Robert Fitterman, Paul La Farge, Ann Lauterbach, Anna Moschovakis, David Levi Strauss, Matvei Yankelevich Visiting Faculty: Trinie Dalton, Renee Gladman, Carla Harryman, Fiona Maazel, Tracie Morris, Fred Moten, Dana Ward Publishing/Editing Courses: no Literary Magazine: Conjunctions Recent Visiting Writers: Tim Griffin, Ben Lerner, Maggie Nelson, Roberto Tejada, Lynne Tillman Program Description: Bard MFA is a nontraditional school for interdisciplinary study in the visual and creative arts: film/video, music/sound, painting, photography, sculpture, and writing. Students are in residence on campus for eight weeks during three consecutive summers, with two winter sessions of independent study completed off campus. Each summer, students meet one on one with faculty from all six disciplines. This interdisciplinary context is ideal for writers, as it allows them to explore issues common to the other arts while they address those specific to writing. The program is most suitable for writers working with poetry, short fiction, sound, internet, and mixedmedia writing. Butler University MFA in Creative Writing Website: www.butler.edu/mfa-creative-writing/ Address: 4600 Sunset Avenue, Indianapolis, IN 46208 Program Director/Contact: Hilene Flanzbaum Phone: (317) 940-9860 Email: hflanzba@butler.edu Degrees Offered: MFA Type of Program: residency Length of Program: flexible, 3 years average Genres: poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction Enrollment: 60 total, 15 per year Total Credits Required: 36 Application Deadlines: March 15 (for Fall 2016) Scholarships: yes (see website) Assistantships: yes (see website) Core Faculty: Dan Barden, Hilene Flanzbaum, Chris Forhan, Andrew Levy, Alessandra Lynch, Susan Neville, Michael Dahlie, Allison Lynn Visiting Faculty: Lili Wright, Porter Shreve, Dan Wakefield, Greg Schwipps, David Shumate, Ben Winters, Alix Lambert Publishing/Editing Courses: yes (see website) Literary Magazine: Booth Reading Series: Vivian S. Delbrook Visiting Writers Series, conversations@efroymson Recent Visiting Writers: D.A Powell, Jeffrey Eudenides, Alicia Ostriker, Mary Kay Zuravleff, Karen Russell, Tomaz Salamun, Victor Hernandez Cruz, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Tim O’Brien, D. Nurkse, Cheryl Strayed, Jesmyn Ward Program Description: The MFA is a 36-hour studio MFA that includes ten three-credit courses and six hours of formal thesis work with an advisor. We offer programs in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, as well as electives in screenwriting, young adult fiction, poetic form, literary editing and publishing, and teaching creative writing. We offer top-flight, full-time faculty, nationally recognized visiting faculty, and one of the finest visiting writers series in the country. We operate a MFA-run literary magazine and other publishing enterprises, and also offer teaching and service opportunities through an array of programs. Links to all programs at www.newpages.com 9
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