Program description: The Mile-High MFA is a two-year terminal degree that will provide students with one-on-one instruction in fiction, young adult fiction, creative nonfiction, writing for performance, poetry, or the graphic novel, along with theory and craft lessons, workshops, seminars, and readings by accomplished authors, as well as guidance on the practical and professional aspects of writing.
Regis University
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- Subtitle: Mile-High MFA
Contact Information:
Mailing Address:
- Mailing Address 1: 3333 Regis Boulevard, H-16
- Mailing City: Denver
- Mailing State: CO
- Mailing Postal Code: 80221-1099
- Program Director: David Hicks, Martin McGovern
- Program Contact: Andrea Rexilius
- Website: Regis.edu/MFA
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- Blog: Blog
- Facebook: Facebook
- Twitter: Twitter
Program Information:
- Degree: MFA
- Type: low-residency
- Length of Program: 2 years
- Genre: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Young Adult, Playwriting
- Enrollment: 20
- Total Credits Required: 54
- Application Deadlines: October; April
- Scholarships: no
- Assistantships: no
- Core Faculty: Mario Acevedo, Eric Baus, Kathy Fish, Janna Goodwin, Steven Cole Hughes, Kristen Iversen, Traci L. Jones, Adrianne Kalfopoulou, David Lazar, Allen Learst, Chip Livingston, J. Michael Martinez, TaraShea Nesbit, Daniel Jose Older, Lori Ostlund, Heidi Pitlor, Khadijah Queen, Sophfronia Scott, Jenny Shank, Christine Sneed, Caridad Svich, Natalia Sylvester, Eleanor Swanson, Rebecca Taylor, Helen Thorpe, Denise Vega, Rachel Weaver
- Publishing/Editing Courses: no
- Reading Series: Mile-High Writers Series
- Recent Visiting Writers: Phillip Lopate, Sherman Alexie, Peter Heller, ZZ Packer, Joanne Greenberg, Ed Hirsch
- Short Program Description: Regis' Mile-High MFA, is a low-residency program that lets you stay at your job and close to your family, but pushes you to make time for writing. You'll leave the program with a manuscript ready to submit to publishers, along with an action plan for putting your writing into practice in the world.
- State: Colorado
