Creative Writing Programs
Graduate Creative Writing MFA, PhD, MA,
and Creative Writing BFA
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SC - SD - TN
- TX - UT - VA
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- WA - WI - WV
- WY - Canada
Alabama
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University of Alabama at Birmingham
MA in Creative Writing
University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa
MFA Creative Writing Program
The program is a studio/academic course of study, designed with an eye to accommodating a variety of student and faculty passions. Imaginative writers enroll in writing workshops, forms courses, and literature classes, gaining exposure to a broad range of writing models and experimenting with a variety of strategies and forms.
Alaska
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University of Alaska Anchorage
MFA Creative Writing & Literary
Arts (low res)
University of Alaska at Fairbanks
MFA Creative Writing
UAF is the flagship campus of the University of Alaska system. Our Visiting Writers program has brought up such notables as Yusef Komunyakaa, Ilya Kaminsky, Edward Hirsch, and David Lee. Please visit our website for more information.
Arizona
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University of Arizona
Creative
Writing MFA
Founded in 1974, we are ranked one of the top ten graduate writing programs in the country. The workshop and the writer-to-writer conversations are at the heart of the MFA experience here, but the literary and cultural riches expand out from there. We’ve got a lot of interesting things to do and a lot of interesting people doing them.
Arizona State University
MFA Creative
Writing Program
From website: The Creative Writing Program at Arizona State University, consistently ranked as one of the top programs in the United States, is interdisciplinary in nature—combining the strengths of two academic departments: English in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Theatre in the College of Fine Arts.
Northern Arizona University
MA Creative
Writing
Arkansas
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University of Arkansas
Programs in Creative Writing
and Translation
Ours is a working program. With up to seven intensive workshops, courses in poetics and fiction theory, along with literature both traditional and contemporary, our students prepare themselves for the life of the writer.
California
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Antioch University at Los Angeles
MFA in Creative Writing Program
(low-res)
Founded in 1997 as the nation’s first low-residency creative writing program on the West Coast. At two 10-day residencies each year, students gather at the site of world’s only MFA program specifically devoted to literature and the pursuit of social justice. During the five-month Project Periods, students study with nationally recognized writers who are also outstanding teachers.
California College of the Arts
MFA in Writing
CCA’s MFA offers a course of study in fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, cross-genre writing, playwriting, or screenwriting. Set in an art school, the MFA offers opportunities to collaborate with artists, designers, writers. CCA’s MFA affirms both innovative and traditional practice, offering a flexible and rigorous program supporting the path of each writer.
California Institute of the Arts / CalArts
MFA Writing Program
Its presence in an art institute like CalArts gives the Writing Program a theoretical and aesthetic affinity with new and often hybrid genres and a unique perspective on how they affect more conventional genres, such as the novel, the screenplay, the poem.
California State University, Fresno
MFA in Creative Writing
The Creative Writing Program at California State University, Fresno prides itself on the quality of its teaching and writing, as well as for the contribution it makes to the cultural life of the campus and the community. The program, long known for its distinguished faculty and alumni, offers the Master of Fine Arts degree in fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction.
California State University, Long Beach
MFA
in Fiction and Poetry
We offer full-time programs in fiction and poetry. While we currently do not offer teaching assistantships, a wide range of teaching opportunities are available to our graduate students.
Chapman University
MFA
in Creative Writing
The MFA degree at Chapman is a two-year, 42 unit program intended for graduate students who wish to specialize in writing literary fiction and poetry, with secondary studies in screenwriting and playwriting. Chapman also offers a Dual Degree in Creative Writing and Literature -- a 54 unit program leading to both an MFA in Creative Writing and an MA in literature.
Mills College
MFA in Poetry
The master of fine arts degree in creative writing with an emphasis in poetry is designed to develop your growth as a writer and reader of poetry, enhance your awareness of the contemporary poetic field, and highlight opportunities in publishing, teaching, and community work.
Mills College
MFA in Prose
The master of fine arts degree in creative writing with an emphasis in prose is designed to develop your growth as a writer and reader of fiction and creative nonfiction, enhance your awareness of the contemporary literary field, and highlight opportunities in publishing, teaching, and community work.
New College of California
MFA Writing & Consciousness Program
The only writing program of its kind in the world. Our weekend-based program offers the aspiring writer an alternative way to approach both writing and the active consciousness necessary to any intellectual or creative endeavor. Our understanding of writing comes from a belief in social engagement.
New College of California
MA Poetics Program
From website: The New College Poetics Program is unique in that it makes the history, theory, and making of poetry its central focus. The knowledge of how poetry is made and understood in its cultural and social contexts is what we mean by poetics.
Otis College of Art and Design
MFA in Writing
Our multi-disciplinary approach—writing, literature, critical theory, publishing and translation—is the ideal complement to the program's international emphasis, providing a singular opportunity to look at American writing in relation to other contemporary world literatures.
Saint Mary’s College of California
MFA in Creative Writing
Founded in 1995, the MFA Program in Creative Writing is a 2-year course of study leading to the M.F.A. degree in the genres of creative nonfiction, fiction, or poetry. We provide the freedom, time and formal training that serious writers need and deserve.
San Diego State University
MFA in Creative
Writing
From website: Our 54-unit MFA program offers study in poetry or fiction with a balance between studio/academic, traditional/experimental, and commercial/aesthetic approaches.
San Francisco State University
MFA Creative Writing
From website: The Department of Creative Writing offers undergraduate and graduate programs. The three degree programs emphasize the primary importance of the study and practice of imaginative writing in the genres of poetry, fiction, playwriting, and nonfiction.
San Jose State University
MFA Creative
Writing
The MFA program in Creative Writing at SJSU is a 48 semester-unit studio/research program that provides concentrations in fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and playwriting/screenwriting. Graduation requirements include writing workshops in the primary and secondary genres, literature seminars, and professional training courses and/or internships.
University of California at Irvine
MFA in English
University of California at Riverside
MFA Creative Writing
From website: The Department of Creative Writing at UCR offers the only Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing in the University of California system and MFA in Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts. It is a growing and dynamic program made up entirely of established writers and poets.
University of California, San Diego
MFA in Writing
The program plans to accept 2009-2010 Applications beginning Fall 2008
University of San Francisco
MFA Writing Graduate Program
From website: If language is human culture's distinguishing characteristic, creative writing is its artful practice, rooted in the imagination and developed throughout history by multiple traditions. USF's Master of Fine Arts in Writing Program offers graduate students an intimate learning experience in the art of writing, while taking advantage of San Francisco's position as a dynamic center of literary expression.
University of Southern California
PhD Creative Writing Program
The program provides dual emphasis in literature and creative writing, culminating in the dissertation, which combines critical analysis with creative originality.
University of Southern California
Master of
Professional Writing
Since its inception in 1971, the mission of the USC Master of Professional Writing Program has been to prepare and launch talented writers in lifelong writing careers. The unique multi-genre approach enhances students’ interests and strengths while encouraging them to expand and augment their writing expressions.
Colorado
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Colorado State University
MFA in Creative Writing
From website: The program offers a balance of intimate and intensive writing workshops with courses in literature, form and technique, and such related electives as creative nonfiction writing and translation.
Naropa University
MFA Creative Writing (low-res)
From website: Students enrolling in the low-residency MFA program will enjoy the benefits of the Naropa experience without having to relinquish other commitments. Courses are taken online during the regular academic year, and summer semesters of the degree period are completed at Naropa.
University of Colorado Boulder
MFA in Creative
Writing
The MFA in Creative Writing trains students to write in a variety of genres and to study literature from the point of view of a working writer. Recent graduates have become not only published authors, but also journalists, editors, publishers, and educators. The Program has a thirty year tradition stressing literary experimentation and diversity in all of its forms.
University of Denver
Creative Writing
Program for PhD Students
From website: We pitch our workshops and other courses to the sophisticated levels of students who have done an MA or MFA in creative writing elsewhere (recent PhD students have come from Brown, Iowa, the Art Institute of Chicago, U-Mass-Amherst, Florida, and many other celebrated MFA programs). We no longer offer an MA in creative writing (and we've never had an MFA).
Connecticut
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Western Connecticut State University
MFA in Professional
Writing - (low res)
The first and only low-residency MFA program dedicated to educating career writers for the contemporary marketplace.
Yale University School of Drama
MFA Playwriting Program
From website: The department is the oldest playwriting program in America and for decades has helped develop some of the country’s finest and most distinguished playwrights.
Washington D.C.
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American University
MFA Program
in Creative Writing
The Creative Writing program at American University is dedicated to supporting the intensely personal act of creating literature that will illuminate and endure. Students encounter an open, respectful community of writers and a curriculum that embraces the full range of writing experiences in a vibrant cultural and international capital, Washington, DC.
Florida
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Florida Atlantic University
MFA Creative
Writing Program
From website: Students in the MA and MFA programs specialize in fiction, poetry, or creative nonfiction, pursuing half of their coursework in creative writing workshops and half in literature and theory seminars.
Florida International University
MFA Creative Writing Program
From website: MFA Degrees in Fiction, Poetry and Creative Nonfiction
Florida State University
MFA Creative Writing
Our program, ranked in the top 10 by The Atlantic, offers both the MFA and Ph.D. and is affiliated with FSU’s top-ranked schools of Film and Theatre. Home to winners of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and more often included in Harcourt’s Best New American Voices.
University of Central Florida
MFA Creative Writing
From website: Our workshop-intensive program emphasizes the study of theory and published writing alongside the closely analyzed production of student texts.
University of Florida
MFA Program in Creative
Writing
From website: We require an equal interest in writing and in reading literature. We don’t believe in any particular school of writing; we have no wish to foster or found one.
University of Miami
MFA Fiction and Poetry
We offer an engaged and accessible faculty, small graduate workshops, and a supportive environment, both in terms of our own growing program and the English department at large. We offer full or partial funding to all our students. All MFA candidates have the opportunity to teach ENG 209 (Introduction to Creative Writing.)
Georgia
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Georgia College & State University
MFA in Creative Writing
The MFA in Creative Writing program offers workshops with award-winning faculty writers in fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction and memoir, and scriptwriting, and students may write the thesis in any of these four genres. Our university is small (about 6,000 students), located in historic downtown Milledgeville (home of Flannery O'Connor).
Georgia State University
MFA
and PhD Creative Writing
From website: GSU's rigorous studio/academic program offers the BA with a concentration in creative writing, and the MA, MFA, and PhD in poetry and fiction.
University of Georgia
MFA Creative Writing
From website: Stresses the importance of teaching as well as research. Most students who want a chance to teach are able to do so before completing their degrees. Students are expected and encouraged to participate actively in the program, attending readings by visiting writers and participating in some of the reading series offered by the department and the larger Athens writing community.
Hawaii
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Idaho
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Boise State University
MFA Program in
Creative Writing
From website: The MFA Program in Creative Writing offers degree tracks in fiction and poetry, emphasizing the art and craft of literary writing and concentrating on the student's written work. Close work with faculty and visiting writers is encouraged through seminars, conferences, and classroom interaction during the three-year course
University of Idaho
MFA Program in Creative Writing
UI's three-year curriculum provides practical training in fiction, poetry, and/or creative nonfiction, as well as the chance to work in editing and publishing. The program is small by design; graduate workshops generally have 10 to 15 students enrolled.
Illinois
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Columbia College Chicago
MFA in Poetry
The graduate program in Poetry prepares students to write and publish poetry at a high professional level. The expectation is that students complete the program with a book-length manuscript of poetry and be prepared to participate in the worlds of poetry, publishing, and the arts
Columbia College Chicago
Creative Writing-Fiction
Story Workshop(r) core fiction writing classes emphasize permission for, and development of, your own unique voice and story content in an atmosphere that stresses positive rather than negative critiquing. Degrees offered: M.F.A. in Creative Writing, M.A. in the Teaching of Writing, Combined M.A./M.F.A.
Northwestern University
MFA in Writing for the
Screen and Stage
Northwestern University's MFA in Writing for the Screen + Stage is an interdisciplinary writing program that allows students to explore and develop skills, writing for film, television and the stage. Every student in the program receives a $5,000 production grant to produce one of their works and leaves the program with a portfolio including a completed short screenplay, a one-act play, a television episode, a feature length screenplay, and a full length project of their choosing.
Roosevelt University
MFA Creative Writing
Through writing workshops, a range of literature courses and the opportunity for skills-building internships, the Roosevelt MFA offers students an intensive writing experience, a laboratory in which to grow the skills necessary to sustain a lifetime of writing, and the connections to launch writing careers.
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
MFA in Writing & BFA with Emphasis in Writing
The Master of Fine Arts in Writing Program is for writers of all genres--fiction, nonfiction, poetry, playwriting, and screenwriting--as well as for writers and artists who work with both image and text, and want to focus on writing.
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
MFA Creative Writing
From website: A three year studio/academic program for students gifted in the writing of fiction and poetry. Workshops are small and faculty members work closely with students, providing an unusual degree of both formal and informal mentoring.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
MFA in Creative
Writing
MFA program, which offers degrees in Fiction or Poetry, is affiliated with an English Department routinely ranked among the highest in the nation. The department's creative writing faculty features several distinguished poets and fiction writers with national and international reputations. The Department's reading series draws writers of the highest caliber.
Indiana
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Indiana University
MFA/MA Creative Writing
Program
From website: Indiana University is one of the few universities to offer its students a graduate-level course in creative writing pedagogy: Teaching Creative Writing.
Purdue University
MFA Creative Writing
Gives poets and fiction writers the opportunity to develop their work in a supportive atmosphere. Three-year program. Full funding for all. Dynamic Visiting Writers Series. With one of the best student to faculty ratios (3.5 to 1) in the country, the program ensures personal attention and a friendly writing community.
University of Notre Dame
Creative Writing Program
The Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at Notre Dame is a two-year degree program centered around workshops in poetry and fiction and offering literature courses, translation, a literary publishing course, and twelve credits of thesis preparation with an individual faculty advisor.
Iowa
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Iowa State University
MFA in Creative Writing and Environment
Our MFA program in Creative Writing and Environment offers an original and intensive opportunity for gifted students of nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and drama to document, meditate on, celebrate, and mourn the transformation of our world.
University of Iowa
Writers' Workshop
For almost 70 years writers have come to Iowa City to work on their manuscripts and to exchange ideas about writing and reading with each other and with the faculty. Many of them have gone on to publish award-winning work after graduating.
University of Iowa
MFA Nonfiction Writing Program
The Nonfiction Writing Program is broadly devoted to literary nonfiction and serves the purposes principally of people who aspire to become writers. But it serves equally well persons who imagine themselves teaching writing or in a job that emphasizes strong writing and editing skills.
Kansas
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University of Kansas
Creative Writing (MFA,
PhD)
A newly established MFA program with tracks in fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and playwriting. Internships for academic credit can be taken with Cottonwood, KU's national literary review, and with the English Alternative Theater. We have a visiting writers program and each semester all graduate students can read their work. A Ph.D. with a creative dissertation is also available.
Wichita State University
Creative Writing Program
(MFA)
Unlike some MFA degree programs in creative writing, the WSU program is not conceived as a studio program. It encourages the development of fine writers who are also able, as a result of additional course work in English, to demonstrate skills useful in teaching, editing, and other areas related to creative writing.
Kentucky
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Eastern Kentucky University
Creative Writing - MA
Low-residency MFA program in the works (expected to launch June 2008).
Murray State University
MFA in Creative Writing
- (low-res)
Allows student writers to work on their craft where they live while workshopping their writing online or by traditional mail with prize-winning writers. Twice a year students attend a 10-day residency at MSU to join a community of writers for intensive study, workshops, readings, and lectures.
Spalding University
MFA
in Writing (low-res)
Brief-residency master of fine arts programs generally result in excellent writing by mature and highly motivated graduate students who find a high degree of satisfaction in the experience. The Spalding MFA in Writing Program is designed to be intellectually stimulating and emotionally supportive.
Louisiana
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University of New Orleans
MFA Creative Writing
Many students arrive from undergraduate programs, yet many find their way to the CWW at other stages of their lives. And this eclectic mix, combined with New Orleans' long tradition of embracing the arts, makes for workshops that are lively and constructive, with students producing impressive, and award-winning, creative work.
University of New Orleans
Low Residency MFA Program
UNO's pioneer program offers maximum interaction among faculty and students, multiple instructors and genres throughout your curriculum, and residencies held each year, at one of our famous summer programs: France, Italy, Spain, and Mexico. A cultural and literary experience that will enrich both your writing and your life.
Louisiana State University
MFA in Creative Writing
With full funding and tuition waivers for all students, an excellent student faculty ratio, distinguished faculty, and freedom to explore every genre (including non-fiction, drama, and screen writing), LSU has a gem of a program. Alumni include Olympia Vernon, Virgil Suarez, Josh Russell, Clarence Nero, and Megan Volpert.
McNeese State University
MFA Creative Writing
The Master of Fine Arts program at McNeese is for you if you're a serious writer eager to explore your potential as a creator of literary fiction and poetry. While here, you'll write and read constantly, encouraged and guided by professors who are passionate about language and art. Our workshops are capped at a dozen to allow personal attention.
Maine
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University of Southern Maine
Stonecoast MFA in Creative
Writing (low-res)
One of the nation's leading low-residency MFA programs, Stonecoast provides a rigorous, open-minded, and progressive two-year graduate education in the art of writing, distinguished by an innovative curriculum, rich residency offerings, and an award-winning, diverse faculty handpicked for their generosity and talent as teachers.
Maryland
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Goucher College
MFA in
Creative Nonfiction (low res)
From website: What distinguishes Goucher's MFA from other graduate creative writing programs, including those that take advantage of the limited-residency format, is its exclusive focus on a single genre. The program is also distinguished by its strong professional focus on writing and publishing.
Johns Hopkins University
MFA in Fiction and Poetry
From website: The M.F.A. degree in The Writing Seminars is designed for students committed to the study and practice of literary writing at the highest level of accomplishment.
University of Baltimore
MFA in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts
In addition to an array of writing classes and workshops, we offer courses in book arts, small press publishing, and creativity. You'll send your work to established literary journals, and you'll also create your own print and electronic journals and publish broadsides and chapbooks. And that's what's unique about us.
University of Maryland - College Park
MFA Creative Writing Program
The program offers concentrations in fiction and poetry, and requires a creative thesis.
Massachusetts
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Boston University
MA Creative
Writing Program
From website: We are perhaps the most venerable of all such graduate programs; certainly one of the finest; and, with our single year of residence and scholarly component, decidedly different. We are not the place for a leisurely discovery of yourself as a writer or person.
Emerson College
MFA in Creative Writing
U.S. News & World Report ranks Emerson’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program among the country’s top graduate programs of its kind. Well-respected, workshop-based MFA residency programs such as Emerson’s have proven to be incubators for rising literary talent.
Emerson College
MA in Publishing & Writing
Our program’s integration of publishing, literature, and writing cultivates your ability to respond to creativity with creativity. Publishing classes examine the industry from writing and editing, through design, production, and distribution. Literature classes deepen your reading experience and develop your intuitive editorial eye. Writing workshops nurture your creative voice and vision.
Lesley University
MFA Program in Creative Writing
(low-res)
At least two attributes distinguish Lesley's MFA in Creative Writing from other low-residency programs. First, the interdisciplinary component encourages students to expand their abilities as writers by widening the angles, and deepening the fields, of their vision. [...] Second, with its residencies taking place in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Lesley's program draws energy from one of the literary capitals of the United States.
Pine Manor College
Solstice Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing Program
Featuring one of the most diverse faculties in the country, the Solstice Program helps students reach their full potential as writers through a demanding curriculum that balances the workshop experience with the study of literary craft, criticism, and theory. We embrace a wide range of voices and artistic approaches in our faculty and students, establishing a learning environment that fosters community and celebrates the individual.
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
MFA Program
for Poets and Writers
Dedicated to the creation of new and important writing. For almost half a century, it has been a place for writers to concentrate on their work and to write their books. The program provides opportunities for writers to gain experience in the fields of literary publishing, scholarship, arts administration, and the practice of teaching. Our writers make significant contributions of contemporary letters through the publication of their work and in their roles as publishers, editors, educators, and in various fields in which writing and imagination are central.
Michigan
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Northern Michigan University
MFA in Creative Writing
The MFA program in creative writing offers talented writers the opportunity to meet high literary standards in their own work as well as sharpen their critical acumen in a formal academic setting.
University of Michigan
MFA in Creative
Writing
From website: At the heart of the program are the writing workshops, where students assemble as a community of writers to read and comment on one another's work in progress.
Wayne State University
Creative Writing - MA
From website: The variety of our offerings enables students to construct individual programs that suit their interests, promote their career aims, and increase their employment possibilities while satisfying standards of the profession.
Western Michigan University
MFA in Creative Writing
From website: Graduates of the program have gone on to publish books, found and develop literary journals, see their plays produced, and develop creative writing programs at universities around the country.
Minnesota
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Hamline University
MFA in Writing
The Master of Fine Arts in Writing is a terminal degree for students who wish to pursue careers as writers or who want to teach college-level writing. Students join a community of writers and scholars within an intensive, book-driven, interdisciplinary program, studying a combination of genres.
Hamline University
MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults
(low-res)
The Master of Fine Arts in Writing for Children & Young Adults is a low-residency, full-immersion program in the craft, literature, and publishing business of this unique literary genre. The program features faculty who are experts in all reading levels and forms of children’s literature, including fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
Minnesota State University Mankato
MFA in Creative Writing
The MFA program in creative writing meets the needs of students who want to strike a balance between the development of individual creative talent and the close study of literature and language.
Minnesota State University Moorhead
MFA in
Creative Writing
Our course schedule is arranged to accommodate both full-time and part-time students, and we have kept our program small in order to offer the sort of individualized attention we think student writers need during their apprenticeship years.
University of Minnesota
MFA Program in Creative Writing
This three-year degree provides advanced graduate-level coursework in writing, language, and literature, as well as study in a related field.
Mississippi
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University of Mississippi
MFA in Creative Writing
From website: This graduate program in writing offers students intensive training in fiction or poetry in William Faulkner's hometown.
University of Southern Mississippi
Center for Writers - MA
From website: Workshops are offered in fiction, nonfiction prose, and poetry by the Center's distinguished faculty, and there are the usual specialized readings courses and traditional scholarly courses available.
Missouri
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Missouri State University
Graduate Programs Creative Writing - MA
From website: Students in the M.A. in English program at Missouri State gain advanced skills in writing, critical reading, and analyzing language.
University of Missouri-St. Louis
MFA in Creative Writing
The smallness of the program fosters close contact between the students and the award winning faculty. The program is rigorous and inspiring, designed to bring out the best in each writer. We are highly selective, and only those with demonstrated talent in their genre are admitted.
Washington University in St. Louis
The Writing
Program
From website: The Writing Program at Washington University is rigorous and challenging, requiring a full commitment from the student.
Montana
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University of Montana
MFA Creative Writing Program
From website: Committed to integrated study of literature and creative writing, the writing program prepares writers to teach a variety of courses at the college level.
Nebraska
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Creighton University
Creative Writing
Program
From website: The M.A. in creative writing is a two-year program providing training and guidance in poetry and/or fiction writing. Graduates of the program are prepared to take jobs in publishing, to teach part-time at the university level, and to enter Ph.D. programs in English and Creative Writing.
University of Nebraska at Omaha
MFA Creative Writing (low res)
From website: The MFA in Writing is a short residency creative writing program designed for home-based writers who desire to master their craft.
Nevada
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University of Nevada, Las Vegas
MFA Program
The MFA program at UNLV is an international program, designed so that writers could begin to recognize themselves and their writing in relation to world writing at large.
New Hampshire
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New England College
MFA Program in
Creative Writing (low-res)
From website: The New England College low residency Master of Fine Arts in Poetry Program joins a rigorous curriculum with a peripatetic style.
Southern New Hampshire University
MFA in Fiction and Nonfiction
(low-res)
The highly focused, low-residency M.F.A. prepares students to write in their chosen genre at a professional level.
University of New Hampshire
MFA in Writing
The program emphasizes craft, learned in small workshops, and seeks students who plan to become professional writers after taking their degrees.
New Jersey
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Fairleigh Dickinson University
MFA
in Creative Writing (low-res)
Rutgers University
MFA in Creative Writing
Literature comprises the consciousness and conscience of a culture, and our MFA for the 21st Century is designed to nurture many voices.
New Mexico
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New Mexico State University
MFA in
Creative Writing
From website: The Department of English at New Mexico State University offers the Master of Fine Arts Degree in English with an Emphasis in Creative Writing.
University of New Mexico
MFA in Creative Writing
From website: Our widely published creative writing faculty, along with a distinguished visiting writers series, a faculty and student reading series, the acclaimed Taos Summer Writing Conference, and a national literary magazine, all make for an exciting atmosphere for the study of writing.
MFA Dramatic Writing
From website: We will press you for scripts, rewrites, more rewrites and always want to know what have your written for us lately. We will upset you, praise you, challenge you, inspire you and then want even more.
New York
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Adelphi University
MFA
in Creative Writing
From website: This cross-genre program is distinctive from the traditional two-genre M.F.A. programs in which students study either fiction or poetry.
Bard College
MFA Writing
From website: The day-to-day focus is on the individual process and work in progress, as each student confronts the conceptual and practical questions that are at the core of all artistic production.
Brooklyn College - CUNY
MFA in Creative Writing
The MFA program at Brooklyn College is a small, highly personal two-year program that confers Masters of Fine Arts degrees in fiction, poetry, and playwriting. It offers workshops, seminars, and one-on-one tutorials. It particularly emphasizes relationships between faculty and students.
City College Of New York - CUNY
MFA in Creative Writing
From website: City College is ranked among the top Graduate Creative Writing Programs in U.S. News and World Report.
Columbia University School of the Arts
MFA in Creative Writing
We hope to provide an atmosphere that allows for full artistic exploration, and honest, substantive critical dialogue.
Cornell University
MFA in Creative
Writing
The Creative Writing program in English Language and Literature offers two degree options: the M.F.A. degree, with concentrations in either poetry or fiction, and the Joint M.F.A./Ph.D. degree. Advanced students are able to pursue intensive study with a distinguished faculty committed to creative and intellectual community.
Hunter College -CUNY
MFA Creative Writing
From website: Writers come to be with writers, to deal with great publishers, to meet with the best agents, to be part of that jostling argumentative environment that is the center of the literary universe.
The New School
MFA in Creative
Writing
From website: The New School has been a vital center for creative writing and the instruction of writing since 1931, when distinguished editor Gorham Munson offered our first writing workshop.
Long Island University-Brooklyn
MFA in Creative Writing
From website: The M.F.A. in Creative Writing offers writers the opportunity to work in poetry, fiction, and cross-genre projects ranging from the contemplative to the experimental and avant garde.
New York University
Creative Writing Program
(MA, MFA)
The N.Y.U. Creative Writing Program, among the most distinguished programs in the country, is a leading national center for the study of writing and literature.
Queens College - CUNY
MFA in Creative Writing
We will begin accepting applications for Fall 2008 admission in December 2007. Degrees will be offered in poetry writing, fiction writing, playwriting, and literary translation
Sarah Lawrence College
MFA Writing Programs
From website: The program focuses on the art and craft of writing, rather than on the study of literature.
Stony Brook Southampton
MFA in Writing & Literature
Literature at Stony Brook Southampton emphasizes creative work in fiction, poetry, and scriptwriting. However, the program also extends its emphasis beyond the familiar categories of creative expression to treat all forms of writing as equally relevant to understanding and mastering a world constructed out of words.
Syracuse University
MFA Creative Writing Program
Student writers of poetry and fiction explore the processes and products of their writing in workshops, graduate courses, and seminars. Each student writes, as a thesis, a poetry or fiction manuscript of publishable quality. The final third-year essay is a writer's thoughtful analysis of works in his or her own genre.
North Carolina
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North Carolina State University
MFA in Creative
Writing
This is a fine arts degree and our mission is to help our students improve their art and make solid progress toward literary publication and a career in writing.
Queens University of Charlotte
MFA Program
(low-res)
The Queens MFA program was the first and is still one of the only low-residency programs to use a workshop format both during residencies and in the distance learning component of each semester. With workshops that never exceed a four-to-one student-teacher ratio, the Queens MFA program offers the lowest student-teacher ratio of any MFA program.
University of North Carolina-Greensboro
MFA Writing Program
The program’s flexibility permits students to develop their particular talents through small classes in writing, literature, and the arts.
University of North Carolina-Wilmington
MFA Creative Writing
From website: UNCW's Department of Creative Writing unites a community of passionate, dedicated writers who believe that the creation of art is a pursuit valuable to self and culture. The department devotes itself to the pursuit of excellence in writing through an informed application of craft. We value versatility, and we encourage writers to explore aesthetics and methods across genre lines."
Warren Wilson College
MFA Program
for Writers (low-res)
Although students come from all over the country, they form a cohesive, non-competitive community that offers camaraderie, direction and a practical way to pursue writing while maintaining the responsibilities of adult life.
North Dakota
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Ohio
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Ashland University
MFA in Creative Writing
(low-res)
From website: With the establishment in 1969 of the undergraduate creative writing program and the Ashland Poetry Press, the English Department defined itself as a home for the literary creative arts.
Bowling Green State University
Creative
Writing Program
The Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing gives a comprehensive and rigorous education in the professional writing, editing, and marketing of poetry and fiction.
Northeast Ohio Universities Consortium
MFA
in Creative Writing
From website: A consortium of four universities: Cleveland State University, Kent State University, The University of Akron, and Youngstown State University, the NEOMFA’s unique collaborative design allows students to take advantage of an award-winning faculty of 26 members and to concentrate in the writing of poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction.
Ohio State University
MFA Creative
Writing
From website: The purpose of the Creative Writing Program at The Ohio State University is to help graduate students develop to the fullest their talents and abilities as writers of poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction, with a hope of eventual publication.
Oklahoma
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Oklahoma State University
Creative
Writing Program
From website: BA, MA and PhD. Our creative writing PhD program is unique in including this focus on literary technique at the comprehensive examination level, allowing our graduate students to integrate their work as writers into their overall academic approach.
Oregon
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Oregon State University
MFA Creative Writing Program
From website: Seeking a balance between literary artistic practice and literary scholarship, the course of study emphasizes the importance of reading to one's development as a writer.
Pacific University
MFA in Writing
(low-res)
In the belief that writers can and must lead full and interesting lives, the Pacific MFA in Writing program embraces students who have full-time jobs and other obligations and gives each a way of designing an individualized course of study to be carried out under the supervision of a writer advisor.
University of Oregon
MFA Creative Writing
Program
From website: The central emphasis of our program is the act of writing, undertaken here in the context of a community of committed practitioners.
Pennsylvania
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Carlow University
MFA
Creative Writing (low-res)
From website: The program is intended for students who aspire to be professional writers, to teach creative writing on the college level, or to enjoy the satisfaction of writing and reading in an individualized program.
Chatham University
MFA in Creative Writing
From website: Chatham University's ground breaking MFA focusing on nature, environment and travel writing is the premier graduate program for nurturing creative writers interested in the environmental imagination and place-based writing.
Pennsylvania State University
MFA Program
This program provides an opportunity for students of superior ability in imaginative writing to develop their skills and critical judgment through the practice of writing and the study of literature with an accomplished permanent faculty of authors who are also devoted teachers.
Rosemont College
MFA in Creative Writing
From the website: Currently, the M.F.A. program accepts students in two major genres: Poetry and Prose (either Fiction or Creative Non-Fiction).
Seton Hill College
Writing Popular
Fiction Graduate Program
From website: The MA in Writing Popular Fiction at Seton Hill is one of the only programs in the country that teaches writers to produce the fiction that sells, that reaches a wide audience.
University of Pittsburgh
MFA
Writing Program
Ours is a three-year degree, providing students with the time and opportunity to produce a book-length final manuscript.
Wilkes University
Master of Arts in Creative
Writing (low-res)
From website: Meet agents and editors in residencies and learn the business aspect of writing.
Rhode Island
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Brown University
MFA Literary
Arts
Along with only a handful of other writing programs nationwide, Brown’s Program in Literary Arts provides a home for innovative writers of fiction, poetry, playwriting, electronic writing (hypertext) and mixed media.
South Carolina
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University of South Carolina
MFA in Creative
Writing
From website: Regular series of on-campus student readings
(approximately three per semester) inviting poetry and fiction
presentations.
South Dakota
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Tennessee
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The University of Memphis
The Writer's Workshop - MFA
The Writer's Workshop at the University of Memphis is the premier creative writing program in the South for fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Our graduates have gone on to publish books, win awards, and teach at universities around the country.
Vanderbilt University
MFA in Creative
Writing
From website: Creative Writing has been a vital part of the Vanderbilt English Department for nearly a century, since the poet and critic John Crowe Ransom’s famous class which he called “a practical course in writing various types of prose, including the short story.”
Texas
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Texas State University
MFA Program in Creative Writing
Here at Texas State, we feel that the greatest advantage in attending a program is being in a community of writers.
University of Houston
MFA & PhD Creative Writing Program
Based on its reputation, scholarship, curriculum, and the quality of faculty and students, the Creative Writing Program was rated second in the nation by U.S. News & World Report in its first annual ranking of writing programs in 1997.
University of Texas at Austin
Michener Center for Writers
An three-year interdisciplinary MFA program in fiction, poetry, screenwriting and playwriting. Students are supported by annual fellowships of $25,000, plus remission of all tuition and fees. Workshops and seminars by the resident faculty are supplemented with a distinguished guest writers.
University of Texas, El Paso
Creative Writing Bilingual MFA
The only one of its kind in the U.S., the MFA at UTEP offers a fully bilingual course of study in fiction, poetry, playwriting, screenwriting, and non-fiction. Our students may also study literary translation, libretto writing, novella, and prose poem.
Utah
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University of Utah
MFA Creative Writing
Department
From website: Creative Writing students have the opportunity to study literature, take part in a series of intensive writing workshops, and work within a close community of writers.
Vermont
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Bennington College
MFA in Writing
(low-res)
From website: The Bennington Writing Seminars—Bennington's low-residency Master of Fine Arts (MFA) Program in Writing and Literature—puts as much emphasis upon reading as upon writing.
Goddard College
MFA in
Creative Writing (low res)
The Goddard College Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing is a rigorous, student-centered low-residency program for writers who choose to live their lives and hone their writing skills at the same time.
Vermont College of Fine Arts
MFA in Writing (low-res)
One of the first low-residency MFA programs in the country and recently cited by Atlantic Monthly as one of the top five, the program focuses on poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction and translation. Diversity of perspective, an award-winning permanent faculty, and supportive community of writers are a few of the highlights.
Virginia
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George Mason University
MFA Creative Writing
The faculty of the George Mason Creative Writing Program stress that the M.F.A. is a studio degree; that the process of reading and writing is the greatest help to a person who wants to develop writing talent; and that this reading and writing must be done over a significant course of time.
Hollins University
MFA in Creative Writing
From website: The Hollins program has one of the highest publishing records of any graduate school in the country. Over the past 10 years, graduates have published some 200 books.
From website: One of the few in the country to offer humanities
graduate degrees in children's literature, we are, we believe, the
only one to offer them in the study and writing of children's
literature.
Old Dominion University
MFA in Creative Writing
We offer an MFA with an emphasis in fiction, poetry, or nonfiction. In addition to taking workshops and craft courses with the MFA faculty, our students take courses with a dynamic faculty who have expertise in American, British, and world literature, as well as literary theory, film studies, and rhetoric.
University of Virginia
MFA Creative Writing
From website: Our MFA Program in Creative Writing--ranked fourth among the nation's top twenty creative writing programs by U.S. News and World Report (1997), making us the highest nationally ranked graduate program at the University of Virginia--is a small, two-year course of graduate study.
Virginia Commonwealth University
MFA in Creative
Writing
Celebrating its 25th anniversary, Virginia Commonwealth University's nationally ranked creative writing program is a three-year residency program that offers concentrations in poetry, short fiction, the novel, creative nonfiction, and drama. Teaching assistantships and fellowships offered to the majority of students, including full tuition waivers and competitive stipends.
Virginia Tech
MFA in Creative Writing
There will be three options in three major genres, all of which will require the completion of a creative thesis: Fiction; Poetry; Playwriting.
Washington
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Eastern Washington University
MFA in Creative Writing
From website: Our faculty of eight, all practicing writers with numerous and national book publications, are committed, passionate, and accessible teachers
Pacific Lutheran University
Rainier Writing Workshop (low-res)
A high quality, high-spirited low-residency program for serious writers, including busy adults. Our aim is literary achievement. Focus on Poetry-Fiction-Nonfiction, but mixed genre participants welcome. Distinguished faculty of working writers.
Seattle Pacific University
MFA in Creative Writing
(low-res)
The low-residency MFA at SPU is a creative writing program for apprentice writers—both Christians and those of other traditions—who not only want to pursue excellence in the craft of writing but also place their work within the larger context of the Judeo-Christian tradition of faith.
University of Washington
MFA Creative Writing
From website: Students participate in writing workshops in fiction and poetry, and undertake coursework in literary periods and types, and critical theory.
Whidbey Writers Workshop
Whidbey Writers Workshop MFA
(low-res)
The Whidbey Writers Workshop MFA is the first to be offered by an organization of writers rather than a university. Concentrations offered in fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and writing for children/young adults. Ten-day residencies followed by sixteen-week online semesters. Flexible program may be completed in from two to six years.
West Virginia
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West Virginia University
MFA in Creative Writing
Our three-year program emphasizes close, personal attention to student work. We are committed to keeping the program small, and to fostering a sense of community. All students teach composition and most have the opportunity to teach creative writing, online courses and other advanced offerings.
Wisconsin
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University of Wisconsin at Madison
MFA in Creative
Writing
This small and innovative two-year MFA program annually admits six students, welcoming fiction writers in even-numbered years and poets in odd-numbered years. All students receive generous financial assistance and teaching opportunities. Faculty includes Lorrie Moore, Ron Wallace, Jesse Lee Kercheval, Quan Barry, Amaud Jamaul Johnson and Judith Claire Mitchell.
Wyoming
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University of Wyoming
MFA
in Creative Writing
The University of Wyoming¹s MFA is an intensive 40-hour studio degree in poetry, fiction, or creative nonfiction. Special features include opportunities for interdisciplinary study, supported by a wide range of university departments, and a required professional internship, ensuring the acquisition or polishing of "real-life" writing skills.
Canada
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University of British Columbia
MFA Creative Writing Program
From website: We provide a uniquely comprehensive opportunity for writers to develop their craft within the studio environment, offering BFA and MFA degrees with study in 9 separate literary genres as well as an innovative MFA by distance education.