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Butler University

MFA in Creative Writing

Department of English

4600 Sunset Avenue

Indianapolis, IN  46208

Website: http://www.butler.edu/mfa-writing/

Program director: Andrew Levy

Program contact: Andrew Levy

Phone: (317) 940-9803

Email: alevy@butler.edu

Degrees offered: MFA

Genres: Poetry, Prose (Fiction, Creative Nonfiction)

Type of program: residency

Length of program: flexible

Enrollment: 10-15 per year

Total credits required: 30

Application deadlines: February 15, 2012 (for Fall 2012)

Scholarships available: yes (partial tuition for out-of-state applicants)

Core faculty: Dan Barden, Hilene Flanzbaum, Chris Forhan, Andrew Levy, Alessandra Lynch, Susan Neville, Dana Roeser

Visiting faculty: Michael Dahlie, Micah Ling, Allison Lynn, Lili Wright, Porter Shreve

Visiting Writers-in-Residence: 2010-2011 include Jonathan Lethem, Alicia Erian, Marilyn Chin; 2011-2012 include John Green, Tomaz Salamun, Linda Gregg

Assistantships: no (though the program offers numerous training positions in our writing and community programs)

Publishing/editing courses: yes

Literary magazine: yes (Booth, our new online/print journal, on which MFAs can work in editorial positions)

Reading series: yes (Vivian S. Delbrook Visiting Writers Series, Efroymson Center Creative Writing Series)

Recent visiting writers: 2011-2012: Jhumpa Lahiri, John Green, Robert Hass, Natasha Trethewey, Richard Rodriguez, Richard Price, and others

Program description: Welcome to the Writers Studio at Butler: a new home for creative writing in the Midwest.

Butler University is a top-tier liberal arts university located in a vibrant city with a fabled literary tradition. We offer a combination of top-flight full-time faculty, nationally recognized visiting faculty, a stellar visiting writer’s series, and courses across an array of genres. We also offer teaching and editing opportunities, professional mentoring, and opportunities to involve yourself in the community through literary service learning.

MFA Students at Butler can specialize in Poetry, Fiction, or Creative Nonfiction. We also offer graduate electives, ranging from our Visiting Writers Series, Teaching Creative Writing in the Schools, and Literary Editing and Publishing courses, to courses in story structure, poetic form, graphic novels, screenwriting, and new and alternate forms.

Courtesy of the Efroymson Foundation, we offer scholarships to out-of-state students. We also offer awards and service options designed to enhance your development as a publishing writer and a literary professional.

And lastly, our program is flexible, and affordable. Classes are scheduled for both part-time and full-time students, and we design a specialized curriculum for every student, based on your artistic interests, and your long-term goals as a writer.

Come visit our web site—www/butler.edu/mfa-writing—and see who’s visiting, who’s publishing, who’s teaching, who’s editing, and who’s falling in love with the writing life.