Creative Writing Programs :: NewPages Guide
University of Notre Dame
MFA In Creative Writing
356 O’Shaughnessy Hall
Notre Dame IN 46556
Website: http://www.nd.edu/~alcwp/
Program director: Steve Tomasula
Program contact: Coleen Hoover
Phone: 574-631-4799
Email: Hoover.14@nd.edu
Degrees offered: M.F.A.
Genres: Poetry and Prose
Type of program: residency
Length of program: 2 years
Enrollment: Total enrollment 20-22; each new year 10
Total credits required: 36
Application deadlines: Jan 2
Scholarships available: 3
Core faculty: Cornelius Eady, Joyelle McSweeney, Orlando Menes, William O’Rourke, Valerie Sayers, Steve Tomasula
Assistantships: 4
Publishing/editing courses: yes
Literary magazine: Notre Dame Review
Reading series: yes
Program description: Our graduate M.F.A. Creative Writing program is a two-year literary immersion. We offer workshops with nationally acclaimed writers and literature classes with a distinguished Department of English faculty. Our community is small and congenial (we admit ten writers a year), and part of a large and lively intellectual community in the larger English department. We have a diverse group of all ages and backgrounds and offer a year-round program of visitors and readings. All students write a thesis-a collection of stories or creative nonfiction, a novel, or a collection of poetry-and work closely with a thesis advisor.
