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Eastern Kentucky University

MFA in Creative Writing

467 Case Annex

Richmond, KY 40475

Website: http://www.english.eku.edu/mfa/

Program director: Young Smith

Program contact: Young Smith

Phone: 859-622-3093

Email: eng.mfa@eku.edu

Degrees offered: MFA

Genres: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry

Type of program: Brief Residency

Length of program: Two to four years (a very flexible curriculum)

Enrollment: 15

Total credits required: 48 semester hours

Application deadlines: Applications accepted year round

Scholarships available: No

Core faculty: Julie Hensley, R. Dean Johnson, Derek Nikitas, Young Smith

Assistantships: Yes, on a very limited basis

Publishing/editing courses: Yes (offered during residencies)

Literary magazine: Yes

Reading series: Yes

Recent visiting writers: The following visiting writers will join us for our January, 2009 residency: Julianna Baggott, Rick Hilles, Joanie Mackowski, Nancy Reisman, Jim Tomlinson

Program description: EKU offers a vibrant and uncommonly affordable brief-residency MFA program with opportunities to attend residencies in either (or both) downtown Lexington, Kentucky and in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. The rest of the program takes place via online courses which students complete within the context of their everyday lives.