Creative Writing Programs :: NewPages Guide
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.

