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University of Idaho

MFA in Creative Writing

Department of English

PO Box 441102

Moscow, ID 83844-1102

Website: http://www.class.uidaho.edu/english/CW/mfaprogram.html

Program director: Brandon R. Schrand

Program contact: Brandon R. Schrand

Phone: 208.885.7407

Email: bschrand@uidaho.edu

Degrees offered: MFA Creative Writing

Genres: Fiction, Poetry, Creative Nonfiction

Type of program (residency or low residency): Residency

Length of program: Three year

Enrollment: 36

Total credits required: 54

Application deadlines: February 1.

Scholarships available: Yes

Core faculty: Robert Wrigley, Kim Barnes, Mary Clearman Blew, Daniel Orozco, Brandon R. Schrand, Joy Passanante, Ron McFarland

Assistantships: Yes

Publishing/editing courses: No

Literary magazine: Yes; Fugue

Reading series: Yes

Recent visiting writers: Natasha Tretheway, Patricia Hampl, Mark Halliday, Tony Earley, Jo Ann Beard, Chris Abani.

Program description: While we require applicants to apply only in one genre, we encourage them to "cross-pollinate" once they are admitted. We believe the poet has as much to gain from learning the narrative pacing of prose as the prose writer does from the placement of a single word. We encourage students to experiment and to push themselves in new directions.  But we also insist that they know where they fit in the continuum of writers of their genre, and that they understand and can speak to that tradition.