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The Graduate Program
At a time of rapid transition in the field of literary and cultural studies, we are intent upon sustaining our offerings in traditional historical periods, elaborating those in diverse world literatures, and engaging fully with the spectrum of current theoretical concerns. The University of Virginia is also widely recognized as a leader in digital humanities, an area for which much of the initiative comes from faculty and graduate students in the English department. We take pride in offering graduate study superintended by an internationally renowned faculty.
The Master of Arts Program provides advanced training in literary studies, preparing students for either admission to Ph.D. programs or careers in a variety of fields that require intellectual ingenuity, skills in writing or research, or training in literary criticism and theory. Those who wish to pursue doctoral degrees regularly gain admission to other fine programs. Those seeking careers immediately following the MA have found jobs in secondary teaching, technology, the public sector, business, publishing, and higher education. The MA degree may be completed in three full semesters, though students opting to write an MA thesis often take a fourth semester.
Students may also opt to complete an MA on a part-time basis, so long as they complete the degree within five years. Some students take a full load in their first semester and then finish the degree as a part-time student, but other schedules are possible. Some sample MA timelines may be found here .
Note: The funding of an MA degree can be challenging, as few sources of scholarship support are currently available, either at UVA or nationally. This is a matter of much current concern and discussion in graduate education circles. (See the description, below, of our MA Teaching concentration, a partly funded degree.) Funding issues may impinge on a student’s decision to study full or part time, in that many students take loans that require them to maintain full-time status. All students with loans should contact their lenders directly to understand any implications part-time status might have for them. Moreover, part-time UVA students are currently not eligible to receive student wages, so may not hold student jobs at the university (though this policy is under review and may change). UVA Student Financial Services can help students understand if part-time status is the right financial choice for them.
In addition to our regular MA, we offer an MA in English with a Concentration in Teaching Literature and Writing . This two-year program provides specialized training in teaching, and, in the second year, teaching opportunities and financial support (tuition, fees, one-person health insurance coverage, and a salary per course). In cooperation with the Law School, we offer an interdisciplinary MA in Law and Literature . Our BA/MA program enables selected UVa undergraduates to take graduate courses in their fourth year and go on to complete the MA degree the following year. Interested MA students may choose to earn a graduate certificate in American Studies , Africana Studies , Gender Studies , Environmental Humanities , or Digital Humanities . The MA in English is a terminal degree; UVa MA students who apply to the PhD program compete with other transfer applicants.
The PhD program , with its coursework, exams, guided dissertation research, and training in teaching, places graduates in college and university research and teaching positions, in secondary education, and in academic administration, as well as in positions in publishing, consulting, the public sector, private foundations, and journalism—everywhere that research skills, rigorous analysis, and good writing are valued. In addition to their specialized research, interested PhD students may choose to earn a graduate certificate in Premodern Cultures and Communities , American Studies , Gender and Sexuality Studies , Africana Studies , Environmental Humanities , or Digital Humanities . Financial support, including health insurance and tuition remission, is awarded to all PhD students from the first through the sixth year of study. As part of their package, PhD students teach one course per semester in years two through four and in year six of the program. The fifth year of study is a fully funded year dedicated entirely to writing the dissertation without teaching obligations. Beyond the sixth year, students in good standing may receive tuition remission, fees, and a salary in consideration for teaching. Government loans and work-study funding are also available. Students typically complete the doctoral degree in six to seven years.
The English Department makes every effort to place its students and has a good record of doing so. Recent recipients of the PhD have found teaching positions at such institutions as Williams College, Illinois, Ohio Wesleyan, Harvard, Yale, UCLA, Virginia Commonwealth University, Bowdoin, Clemson, Iowa, McGill, Nevada, MIT, Dartmouth, Bowling Green, New Mexico State, Penn, North Carolina, Rutgers, Fordham, Tufts, Arizona, Wake Forest, and Berkeley. Find more information about placement and careers in and outside of academia here .
The University library system is a resource of many dimensions. The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library holds a number of remarkable collections of American and British literature. Most noteworthy is the Barrett Library, one of the finest research collections in the world for American literature, including rare books and manuscripts of Cabell, Cather, Crane, Cummings, Eliot, Frost, Harte, Hawthorne, Hemingway, Holmes, Howells, James, Twain, Wharton, and Whitman. Manuscripts in the collection include The Red Badge of Courage , the 1860 Leaves of Grass , and The Sun Also Rises . Other collections of note include the William Faulkner Collection, the unique Sadleir-Black Collection of Gothic Novels, the Wagelin Collection of American Poetry, the Taylor Collection of American Fiction, and the Tunstall Collection of Poetry. Alderman Library, the largest circulating library on Grounds, is an excellent research facility with a standard working collection suitable for advanced studies across the humanities. The library's online holdings and well-staffed Scholars' Lab provide access to a large collection of literary works and advanced computer techniques for working with the texts. In addition, Clemons Library holds an abundant collection of video material and a well-equipped media center. The Department itself is the home of three prize-winning journals: New Literary History , an internationally respected journal of theory and interpretation; Studies in Bibliography , the premier international journal of analytical bibliography and textual study; and Meridian , a student-edited journal of writing.
Students with physical or learning disabilities which may require reasonable accommodation at the University should contact Brad Holland, Coordinator of Services for Students with Disabilities . Information about the larger University and Charlottesville communities may be found here .
The information contained on this website is for informational purposes only. The Undergraduate Record and Graduate Record represent the official repository for academic program requirements. These publications may be found at http://records.ureg.virginia.edu/index.php .
Creative Writing
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The UVA Creative Writing Program offers one of the best MFA programs in the country, along with undergraduate English concentrations in poetry and literary prose and elective coursework.
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Creative writing stories.
Quiz: What Kind of Reader Are You?
Our friends over at the University of Virginia Library have offered their own reading recommendations with every quiz result.
https://news.virginia.edu/content/quiz-what-kind-reader-are-you
From Judge to Bestselling Author, With Help From Tom Wolfe and Rita Mae Brown
For retired Virginia Circuit Court Judge Martin Clark, a 1984 graduate of the University of Virginia’s School of Law, law was a fallback career, a parent-pleasing choice he made after he found nobody wanted to hire him to teach creative writing.
https://news.virginia.edu/content/judge-bestselling-author-help-tom-wolfe-and-rita-mae-brown
She Wrote ‘We Were the Lucky Ones’ and Co-Produced the Hit Hulu Series
Georgia Hunter’s journey to becoming a New York Times bestselling author and co-producer of the Hulu series based on her book, “We Were the Lucky Ones,” began with an English paper assignment when she was 15.
https://news.virginia.edu/content/she-wrote-we-were-lucky-ones-and-co-produced-hit-hulu-series
- MFA Funding
FINANCIAL SUPPORT
If you join our three-year MFA program in 2024, you will receive fellowship support and/or teaching income in the amount of up to $31,518 in the first two academic years and up to $25,214 in the third, as well as full funding of your tuition, enrollment fees, and the health insurance premium for single-person coverage through the university. Tax obligations on your fellowship income will vary from student to student depending on other income earned during the tax year, U.S. vs. international status, and other factors. See below.
| Projected Funding | Fall | Spring | Summer |
|---|---|---|---|
| $12,607 | $6,303.50 | $6,304 | |
| $6,303.50 | |||
| $6,303.50 | $6,303.50 | $6,304 | |
| $6,303.50 | $6,303.50 | ||
| $12,607 | $12,607 |
The above semester-based projections are not always distributed evenly each month due to payroll calendars and academic holidays, but reflect your total income over the academic semester . You will have limited teaching in your first academic year of study so that you can focus on your writing. In the spring of that first year, you will teach one creative writing workshop (introduction to fiction writing or poetry writing, depending on the genre of your acceptance). In your second year, you will teach one creative writing workshop each semester. We provide pedagogical training and peer support to help you build courses that meet our university and program requirements, but the courses are largely of your own design: you create the exercises, reading list, and course structure. We know of few MFA programs in the country that offer such an opportunity to graduate students.
We fund all of our MFA students at the same level during their time in our program. Students do not have to re-compete for funding during their years at UVA. Like awards and fellowships at most universities, our offer of fellowship and teaching support is contingent on your satisfactory academic performance and compliance with all applicable university, school, and departmental policies, including but not limited to those governing student conduct, academics, and the UVA Honor System .
ACADEMIC FLEXIBILITY
At the beginning of your second year, you will declare whether you intend to stay for a third year or graduate the following May on an accelerated schedule. Approval for a third year of teaching will depend on performance in the MFA program, teaching evaluations and a demonstrated commitment to teaching, and, of course, adequate progress on your thesis project. For this third year we offer the standard teaching assistantship package at a 2/2 load (teaching wages for two classes each term), as well as full funding of your tuition, enrollment fees, and the health insurance premium for single-person coverage through the university. Students enrolled in third years can continue taking graduate-level coursework at the University of Virginia, though they do not generally enroll in our workshops. Students in a third year typically teach one section of a 2000-level creative writing course and three ENWR 1510 sections (Writing and Critical Inquiry) over the academic year.
Students who choose to graduate on an accelerated two-year schedule receive the same fellowship and wages outlined above but are not eligible to receive summer funding after they graduate in May.
Just like at any other US college or university, UVA fellowship support is considered reportable, taxable income by the IRS, as are teaching wages. See this Scholarship Tax Information page and the Student Financial Services page for more details on your reporting responsibilities. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) requires that the University of Virginia apply specific federal tax withholding and reporting rules to payments made to international students and scholars, which vary depending on a student's home country.
TRAVEL AND OTHER FUNDING
We do not have dedicated program funds available for student travel, conference fees, summer projects, or literary research. Our students can apply for support through UVA's College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences or the English Department on a case-by-case basis, but we cannot guarantee these other funds at acceptance. As a program, we have focused on building a solid and equitable core funding package, but we continue to look for new ways to support MFA students who wish to take their studies beyond the confines of UVA.
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U.Va. Creative Writing Program Ranks Third in MFA Survey
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Creative Writing (M.F.A.)
The M.F.A. in Creative Writing is designed to be completed in three years. Students may specialize in Fiction or Poetry.
About Our Program
Our three-year M.F.A. degree offers tracks in Poetry and Fiction, and all students are fully and equally funded via GTA-ships of more than $20,000 per year. We encourage cross-genre experimentation, offer additional courses in creative nonfiction, playwriting, new media creative writing, and literary editing, and all students have the opportunity to teach creative writing and composition, as well as serve as editors of our literary journal, The New River Journal .
Campuses:
Virginia Tech Blacksburg Campus
Type of Instruction:
Residential/On Campus
What You'll Study
The M.F.A. in Creative Writing is designed to be completed in three years. Students may specialize in Fiction or Poetry. A minimum of 49 hours is required for this terminal degree. A series of creative writing workshops, courses in form and theory, new media writing, composition pedagogy, and literature and theory electives are designed for students wishing to pursue careers as writers or writer/scholars at the college level. Students also have the opportunity to work as editors on The New River: a Journal of Digital Writing and Art . A creative thesis, a written final exam, and an oral defense are required.
The 49 hours required for the degree must be distributed as follows:
- Creative Writing Workshops: 15 hours (6704/Fiction, 6714/Poetry, 6724/Playwriting, 6734/Creative Nonfiction, 6744/New Media Writing); at least 9 hours must be in the designated specialty; students are encouraged to explore other genres in 6 hours of workshops.
- Form and Theory Courses: 6 hours (5734/Form and Theory of Fiction, 5744/Form and Theory of Poetry).
- GTA Training and Composition Pedagogy: 3 hours.
- Creative Writing Pedagogy and Practicum: 3 hours.
- Editing a Literary Journal (5774): 6 hours
- Research & Thesis (5994): 6 hours; a book-length creative thesis (a collection of poetry; a collection of short stories, or a novel)
- Graduate English courses: 9 hours; students may use an independent study in Editing a Digital Journal to help fulfill this requirement.
Why choose this program?
- Our three-year M.F.A. degree offers tracks in Poetry and Fiction, and all students are fully and equally funded via GTA-ships of more than $20,000 per year. We encourage cross-genre experimentation, offer additional courses in creative nonfiction, playwriting, new media creative writing, and literary editing, and all students have the opportunity to teach creative writing and composition, as well as serve as editors of our literary journal, The New River Journal .
- In the years since the program started, we’ve been consistently ranked among the top 30 programs in the country by Poets & Writers in their M.F.A. rankings .
- The faculty members in our creative writing program at Virginia Tech are accomplished, prize-winning, innovative, and diverse: Ed Falco , Evan Lavender-Smith , Khadijah Queen , Lucinda Roy , Sophia Terazawa , and Matthew Vollmer .
- Our program is small—we admit 4–5 students a year in each genre—and we pride ourselves on the diversity and rigor of our program, our respect for our students’ voices, our financial support for our students, the individual attention students receive from faculty, and our robust Visiting Writers Series .
- Our students and alumni are exceptional; they have published books , received prestigious awards and fellowships for their writing, and gone on to further success as writers, teachers, and professionals.
- All students have the opportunity to to hold editorial positions and gain publishing experience working on the digital journal, The New River Journal .
- Emily Morrison Prizes in Fiction and Poetry, and other M.F.A. writing awards offered each year.
Admissions and Tuition
Admissions requirements.
- Minimum GPA 3.0 (4 Scale)
- TOEFL/ IELTS score required (if applicable)
Learn more about admissions requirements
Application Deadline
January 15, 2024.
Current Students
Funding opportunities.
The Department of English has a limited number of graduate assistantships and fellowships available for students applying for full time study on the Blacksburg Campus. Entering students can apply for such funding as part of their admissions application. No separate application required.
- All students equally and fully funded through Graduate Teaching Assistantships.
- GTA-ships include tuition remission, health insurance, and stipends of more than $20,000 per year for all three years of the program
Find out what loans are available as a graduate student and other opportunities.
Other Graduate Programs
If you have questions about the M.F.A. Program, please contact:
Marie Trimmer Graduate Programs Coodinator 310 Shanks Hall 540-231-4659 [email protected]
Matthew Vollmer 431 Shanks Hall 540-231-8322l [email protected]
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Michener Center for Writers
Mfa in writing.
The Michener Center for Writers is the only Creative Writing M.F.A. program in the world that provides full and equal funding to every writer—yet it is our extraordinary faculty and sense of community that most distinguishes us. Our program is a three-year, fully-funded residency M.F.A. with a unique multi-disciplinary focus. Writers apply and are admitted in a primary genre—fiction, poetry, playwriting or screenwriting—and study in both their primary and a secondary genre(s). There are no teaching duties, a luxury that allows our Fellows to commit themselves fully to their writing. And because only twelve writers are admitted each year, our faculty can devote ample time and energy to every writer. With unparalleled support and the deeply held belief that literary art matters now more than ever, the Michener Center offers writers 3 years of unencumbered space to make the work that only they can make.
News & Events
2024 emmy nominations: mcw alumni & their work.
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The Michener Center aims to be a welcoming, inspiring, and invigorating community where writers feel safe and supported to take chances on the page. We are extremely proud that there is no hierarchy here—all students receive equal funding—and we firmly believe that our egalitarian approach fosters a higher level of work that more competitive environments suppress.
Our MFA candidates have come from places as varied as western India, South Korea, eastern Europe, and northern Idaho. Their backgrounds and experiences lend to the pages they produce, which are unique and uniquely vital. We aren’t seeking writers of any particular aesthetic, but rather we are looking for writers whose work is distinct, urgent, and arresting.
Each year, we receive hundreds of applications for twelve seats in the cohort. We accept only full-time, in-residence candidates for the three-year program. There is no low-residency or part-time option.
Applicants must meet the UT Graduate School’s minimum requirements for consideration, which include completion of a Bachelor’s Degree prior to enrollment. The Michener Center no longer requires GRE scores.
James Michener was the Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of over 40 books, including Texas , Hawaii , and Tales of the South Pacific . In his final years, he and his wife, Mari Yoriko Sabusawa, moved to Austin, TX, where they endowed the Texas Center for Writers, a three-year MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Texas. The first cohort of Michener Fellows graduated in 1996. After Mr. Michener’s death in 1997, the Center was renamed in his honor.
To ensure both continuity and fresh perspectives, the Michener Center faculty is built with fixed and moving parts. Writers from UT’s departments of English, Theatre and Dance, and Radio-Television-Film comprise our Resident Faculty, and each year we also welcome an exciting roster of distinguished Visiting Faculty. That our faculty members—resident and visiting—are as passionate about their teaching as they are their writing is of the utmost importance. Like our students, our faculty afford the program a wealth of varied experience, an abiding sense of shared enterprise, and deep commitment to the making of literary art. For more on our outstanding faculty in each genre, visit our Faculty page .
University of Virginia
Charlottesville , VA
http://creativewriting.virginia.edu/
Degrees Offered
Fiction, Poetry
Residency type
Program length.
Three fully funded years.
Financial Aid
All our students receive the same amount of funding and they do not have to re-compete in their second or third year.
Teaching opportunities
In their second year, all of our students teach a 1/1 load of creative writing in poetry or fiction and the courses are largely of their own design. In a third year, our students teach a 2/2 load and primarily in first-year undergraduate writing (composition).
Editorial opportunities
Our MFA program is also the home of Meridian, a semiannual literary magazine edited by our graduate students and distributed nationally. Meridian publishes twice a year, in January and May. The journal features outstanding fiction, poetry, and nonfiction from both emerging and established writers, and work from Meridian contributors has gone on for inclusion in Best American Poetry, Best American Essays, New Stories from the South, and the Pushcart anthology.
Cross-genre study
Limited. Our MFAs do not sit in the other genre’s workshops, but there are opportunities to take additional graduate-level workshops in different genres, and from the same core writing faculty.
- Maria Adelmann MFA (Fiction) 2012
- Susanne Antonetta MFA (Fiction) 1989
- Taylor Antrim MFA (Fiction) 2004
- Hajjar Baban MFA (Poetry)
- Jasmine V. Bailey MFA (Poetry) 2010
- Sierra Bellows MFA (Fiction) 2008
- Tina Louise Blevins MFA (Fiction) 2008
- Will Boast MFA (Fiction) 2007
- Carrie Brown MFA (Fiction) 1998
- Jennifer Chang MFA (Poetry) 2002
- Joseph Chapman MFA (Poetry) 2008
- Ye Chun MFA (Poetry) 2006
- Emma Copley Eisenberg MFA (Fiction) 2015
- Caitlin Fitzpatrick MFA (Fiction) 2016
- Chris Forhan MFA (Poetry) 2003
- Aja Gabel MFA (Fiction) 2009
- Chris Gavaler MFA (Fiction) 2006
- Eleanor Henderson MFA (Fiction) 2005
- Onyinye Ihezukwu MFA (Fiction) 2015
- Greg Jackson MFA (Fiction) 2013
- Caitlin Kindervatter-Clark MFA (Fiction) 2012
- Michael Knight MFA (Fiction) 1996
- Doug Lawson MFA (Poetry) 1995
- David H. Lynn MA (Fiction) 1982
- Brendon Mathews MFA (Fiction) 2005
- Davis McCombs MFA (Poetry) 1995
- Sjohnna McCray MFA (Poetry)
- Karen Salyer McElmurray MFA (Fiction) 1986
- Charles McLeod MFA (Fiction) 2005
- Erika Meitner MFA (Poetry) 2002
- Lailee Mendelson MFA (Fiction) 1997
- Lulu Miller MFA (Fiction)
- Susan Morehouse MFA (Fiction) 1984
- B. A. Newmark MFA (Poetry) 1985
- Michael Parker MFA (Fiction) 1988
- Lydia Peelle MFA (Fiction) 2006
- Thomas Pierce MFA (Fiction) 2013
- Donald Platt MFA (Poetry) 1987
- Dana Roeser MFA (Poetry) 1981
- Bobby C. Rogers MFA (Poetry) 1988
- Christa Romanosky MFA (Poetry)
- Alexis Schaitkin MFA (Fiction) 2013
- Sean Shearer MFA (Poetry) 2019
- Joe B. Sills MFA (Fiction) 2011
- Safiya Sinclair MFA (Poetry) 2014
- Austin Smith MFA (Poetry) 2012
- Lisa Russ Spaar MFA (Poetry) 1982
- Eleanor Stanford MFA (Poetry) 2005
- Darcey Steinke MFA (Fiction) 1987
- Adrienne Su MFA (Poetry) 1993
- Larissa Szporluk MFA (Poetry) 1994
- Lisa Williams MFA (Poetry) 1996
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- M.F.A. in Creative Writing
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Mark Brazaitis
Professor; creative writing coordinator.
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Brian Broome
Assistant professor.
Jenny Johnson
Mary Ann Samyn
Christa Parravani
(304) 293-9701
University of Virginia Fully Funded MFA in Creative Writing
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The University of Virginia (UVA) based in Charlottesville, VA offers a three-year fully funded MFA in creative writing. This MFA program admits five poets and five fiction writers each academic year. This degree of master of fine arts in creative writing is a full-time residency program. Students will receive fellowship support and/or teaching income in the amount of $30,000 each academic year, as well as full funding of their tuition, enrollment fees, and the health insurance premium for single-person coverage through the university.
- Deadline: Dec 15, 2024 (Confirmed)*
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Laleh Khadivi
Laleh Khadivi is the author of The Kurdish Trilogy which includes The Age of Orphans (2009), The Walking (2013), and A Good Country (2017).
Her fiction and non-fiction have appeared in the LA Times , San Francisco Chronicle , VQR , and The Sun .
She has worked as a documentary filmmaker since 2000 and her films have been screened in festivals and on various cable networks.
- MFA Mills College
Administrative Director
Micah Ballard
Author of four full-length collections of poetry, The Michaux Notebook (FMSBW), Afterlives (Bootstrap Press, 2016), Waifs and Strays (City Lights Books, 2011), nominated for a California Book Award, and Parish Krewes (Bootstrap Press, 2009), and over a dozen small books, including Muddy Waters (State Champs, 2022), Selected Prose (2008-19) (Blue Press, 2020), Daily Vigs (Bird & Beckett Books, 2019), Vesper Chimes (Gas Meter, 2014), Evangeline Downs (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2006) and Negative...
- MA in Poetics, New College of California
- MFA in Poetics, New College of California
Full-Time Faculty
Dave Madden
Dave Madden is the author of The Authentic Animal: Inside the Odd and Obsessive World of Taxidermy , as well as a collection of short stories. His essays have appeared in Defector , the Guardian , Lit Hub , Harper's , Creative Nonfiction , and elsewhere. He's received fellowships from MacDowell, Vermont Studio Center, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the Sewanee Writers' Conference.
- PhD (Creative Writing), University of Nebraska-Lincoln
D.A. Powell
D. A. Powell's books include Cocktails (Graywolf, 2004) and Chronic (Graywolf, 2009), both finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry, and Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys (Graywolf, 2012), winner of the 2013 Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry. Powell's awards include the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, Kingsley Tufts Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, and the California Book Award. He has taught at Columbia University, University of Iowa, and...
- MA, Sonoma State University
- MFA, Iowa Writers' Workshop
Susan Steinberg
Susan Steinberg is the author of four books of fiction: Machine (Graywolf Press), Spectacle (Graywolf Press), Hydroplane (FC2), and The End of Free Love (FC2).
The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a United States Artists Fellowship, Professor Steinberg has also been awarded the Pushcart Prize and a National Magazine Award. Her stories have appeared in McSweeney's , Conjunctions , The Gettysburg Review , American Short Fiction , Boulevard , Quarterly West , Denver Quarterly , The ...
- MFA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- BFA, Maryland Institute College of Art
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Stephen beachy.
Stephen Beachy is a past winner of the Michener Award in fiction. He is the author of several novels and two novellas, including The Whistling Song , Distortion , Some Phantom/No Time Flat , boneyard , and Glory Hole .
His work has also been published in High Risk 2 , New York Times Magazine , Bomb , and Best Gay American Fiction 1996 .
He's the prose editor of Your Impossible Voice .
- MFA in Creative Writing, Iowa Writers' Workshop
Lewis Buzbee
Author of novels Bridge of Time (2012), The Haunting of Charles Dickens (2010), winner of the Northern California Book Award, an Edgar Award nominee, and a Judy Lopez memorial Honor book, Steinbeck's Ghost (2008) which was a Smithsonian Notable Book, the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association Children's Book of the Year, and the winner of the Beatty Award from the California Library Association, and Fliegelman's Desire (1990); stories, After the Gold Rush (2006); and nonfiction...
- MFA in Fiction, Warren Wilson College.
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- California Institute of the Arts, MFA
- San Francisco State University, MA
- Oglethorpe University, BA
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Lauren Markham
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Maw Shein Win
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K.M. Soehnlein
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- San Francisco State University, MFA in Creative Writing, 1996
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Catherine Brady
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Aaron Shurin
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College of humanities and sciences, mfa application.
All applications to the MFA program must be submitted via the VCU admissions portal .
This includes creative writing portfolios and graduate assistantship applications. Admission to VCU’s MFA program in Creative Writing is quite competitive, with roughly 200 applications received yearly for only 8-10 spots. Added to this competitive process is the fact that typically we only admit full-time positions with graduate teaching assistantships. That said, every year we also admit a select few part-time MFA students (Note: Most if not all graduate coursework is offered in the evening hours) and while still highly selective, it behooves such applicants who are seeking part-time enrollment to self-identify early in the application process (see actual application for more details).
The VCU admissions portal contains most of the information you need on application requirements, applying for in-state tuition, application fees (and waivers), and much more. Below are application details specific to MFA in Creative Writing applicants.
Traditionally, the general MFA program application deadline is February 1 . However, if you are interested in becoming a full-time student and want to be considered for possible graduate assistantships, we recommend you submit your online application materials by January 15 of the year in which you are applying.
Statement of Intent
As a part of the general online application, the School of Graduate Studies asks that you write an essay addressing “your reasons for seeking graduate education,” emphasizing such areas as goals, aptitude, awards, and honors. The creative writing program asks that you focus more on the following: your reading habits; your writing habits; your experiences with criticism of your own work and the work of others, in workshops, perhaps, but in the study of literature as well; as well as what you see as your responsibilities in the community of writers of which you are a part.
Letters of Reference
Three letters of reference are required for each program and should be submitted online by your recommenders. Instructions for how to do so are included in the online application. Letters should address your academic and professional abilities and preparation for graduate study, especially in a creative writing program. (If you are applying for a graduate teaching assistantship, at least two of these should specifically address your qualifications for an assistantship.) Note: The names, titles, and email addresses of your recommenders should be included in the VCU online application. Once your application has been submitted, VCU will contact your recommenders directly for an online letter of reference.
Creative Writing Portfolio
- Fiction concentration : Applicants should submit 20-50 pages of fiction.
- Poetry concentration : Applicants must provide of 8-10 poems.
- Dual genre concentration : Your portfolio may also consist of a combination of both of these main genres (poetry and fiction) or should you wish, a portion of your portfolio may feature a work of creative nonfiction. Be certain, however, that it includes only your best work.
Test Scores
GRE scores are no longer required for the MFA program.
Assistantships
If you are applying for full-time enrollment and wish to be considered for a possible assistantship, please also submit (via the VCU online application portal) a single additional document that contains the following (in numbered order):
- A brief list of any/all creative writing workshops you've participated in the past five years, along with a paragraph long assessment of the not only what you feel you obtained from the workshop experience but also what/how you contributed to it
- An undergraduate, graduate or professional paper, or other piece of expository prose of 5-10 pages (i.e., typically a sample literary analysis/research paper)
- Your teaching experience (consider previous graduate assistantships, public and private school, college and university, community programs)
- Your educational background and your particular interest in a graduate degree, suggesting where your education seems to be leading
- Why teaching in the classroom (or working on faculty research) attracts you, and what qualifications you might have for such assignments.
Please save/submit your “GTA application” as one document containing all three items listed above as part of the VCU online application process.
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University of St. Thomas Office of Graduate Admissions 3800 Montrose Blvd., Box #6 Houston, TX 77006-4626 Email: [email protected] The Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program offers degrees specializing in fiction and poetry, please take a look at the degree plans for each: Fiction Degree Plan Poetry Degree Plan CRTW 6312 Foundations of the Catholic Literary Tradition A close reading of foundational and seminal works that form the Catholic West: Virgil, The Aeneid ; St. Augustine, Confessions ; Dante, Divine Comedy ; Manzoni, The Betrothed. CRTW 6303 The Art and Metaphysics of Fiction : An inquiry into the nature and aim of fiction ranging from classic to contemporary works: Aristotle’s Poetics ; Henry James’ The Art of Fiction; Flannery O’Connor’s Mystery and Manners ; William Lynch’s Christ and Apollo: The Dimensions of the Literary Imagination ; Caroline Gordon’s How to Read a Novel ; James Wood’s How Fiction Works ; Douglas Bauer’s The Stuff of Fiction: Advice on Craft, Joan Silber’s The Art of Time in Fiction, and Charles Baxter’s The Art of Subtext. CRTW 6302 The Craft of Poetry : An introduction to the theory and practice of prosody with particular attention to stanzaic and genre forms. Students will study and compose poems in the various major forms of the English Poetic Tradition. CRTW 6306 The Poetry of Meditation: A study of lyric poets alongside texts of philosophy and theology that deepen and complement poetic theory. Students will write imitations of the authors read as exercises in addition to completing scholarly analysis. CRTW 6309 The European Catholic Literary Revival : Study of major European literary works which embody, in exemplary ways, what makes the Catholic imagination distinctive, expansive, beautiful, and true. Catholic literary tradition. Prospective authors include: Leon Bloy, Georges Bernanos, Paul Claudel, Francois Mauriac, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Muriel Spark, Evelyn Waugh, J.RR. Tolkien, G.K. Chesterton, and Sigird Undset. CRTW 6310 The Catholic Imagination in Modern American Literature: A study of the major American writers of the Catholic Literary Revival and the contemporary authors who succeeded them. Prospective authors include: George Santayana, Allen Tate, Robert Lowell, Caroline Gordon, Flannery O’Connor, Thomas Merton, Walker Percy, J.F. Powers, Helen Pinkerton, John Finlay, Alice McDermott, Christopher Beha, and Dana Gioia. CRTW 6305 The Philosophy of Art and Beauty : This course would grant students a philosophical understanding of the nature of beauty and the fine arts. Principal texts include: Plato’s Symposium and Phaedrus ; Jacques Maritain’s Art and Scholasticism, Etienne Gilson’s Arts of the Beautiful ; Pseudo-Dionysius’ Divine Names. CRTW 6300 Graduate Poetry Workshop . Course will be devoted to the exploration of craft techniques and revision processes of poetry with student drafts as the primary texts and the workshop model of compliment and critique as the mode of education. CRTW 6301 Graduate Fiction Workshop . Course will be devoted to the exploration of craft techniques and revision processes of short stories and novel excerpts with student drafts as the primary texts and the workshop model of compliment and critique as the mode of education. CRTW 6304 Non-Fiction Writing Workshop Course will be devoted to the exploration of craft techniques and revision processes of non-fiction with student drafts as the primary texts and the workshop model of compliment and critique as the mode of education. CRTW 6313 Advanced Fiction Seminar: Students will learn to identify the aspects of craft at work in exemplary fiction. ELECTIVE. CRTW 6314 Advanced Poetry Seminar: Students will learn to identify the aspects of craft at work in exemplary poetry. ELECTIVE. CRTW 6398/6399 Directed Thesis in Poetry or Fiction: Students will complete an individuated tutorial, working with a faculty mentor, to complete a publishable manuscript (a poetry or short story collection, novel, or other comparable work). CRTW 6308/6307 The Residency in Poetry or Fiction: An intensive course consisting primarily of a 10-day residency, during which time students convene for morning workshops in their chosen genres (poetry or fiction); engage in an intensive afternoon seminar on an annual theme (e.g. major authors in contemporary literature; Catholic literature of eastern Europe, Africa, and Asia; the Sacramental imagination); and attend evening lectures and readings by distinguished writers and scholars complementary of the seminar theme. James Matthew Wilson has published ten books, among them four collections of poems, including The Strangeness of the Good . His poems, essays, and reviews appear regularly in a wide range of magazines and journals. The winner of the 2017 Hiett Prize from the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, Wilson also serves as Poet-in-Residence of the Benedict XVI Institute for Sacred Music and Divine Worship, poetry editor of Modern Age magazine, and series editor of Colosseum Books, a new imprint that publishes the best contemporary poetry and literary criticism of serious craft and spiritual depth. Wilson was educated at the University of Michigan (B.A.), the University of Massachusetts (M.A.), and the University of Notre Dame (M.F.A., Ph.D.), where he subsequently held a Sorin Research Fellowship. Joshua Hren is the founder and publisher of Wiseblood Books, perhaps the most distinguished and ambitious small literary press of our day. Joshua regularly publishes essays and poems in such journals as First Things , America, Public Discourse, Commonweal, National Review, Catholic World Report, The Englewood Review of Books , University Bookman, Law & Liberty, and LOGOS . Joshua has written seven books: the short story collections This Our Exile and In the Wine Press ; a book of poems called Last Things, First Things, & Other Lost Causes ; Middle-earth and the Return of the Common Good: J.R.R. Tolkien and Political Philosophy ; How to Read ( and Write) Like a Catholic ; a novel Infinite Regress ; and the theological-aesthetical manifesto Contemplative Realism. Hren is a graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (B.A, M.A, Ph.D.). Dana will deliver a keynote reading for the Summer Literary Series on July 10, 2023 from 7:15pm – 8:45pm in the UST Cullen Auditorium. This event will also be available as a live stream. Randy will deliver a keynote reading for the Summer Literary Series on July 15, 2023 from 7:15pm – 8:45pm in the UST Cullen Auditorium. A.M. will deliver a keynote reading for the Summer Literary Series on June 13, 2024 at 7:15pm in the UST Cullen Hall Auditorium. Catharine will deliver a keynote reading for the Summer Literary Series on July 7, 2023 from 7:15pm – 8:45pm in the UST Cullen Auditorium. This event will also be available as a live stream. Angela will deliver a keynote lecture on “'The World Is Almost Rotten': Flannery O'Connor & the Hot Pursuit of The Real” on June 24, 2024 and a keynote reading for the Summer Literary Series on June 25, 2024. Both events will be at 7:15pm in the UST Cullen Hall Auditorium. Adam will deliver a keynote reading for the Summer Literary Series on June 17, 2024 at 7:15pm in the UST Cullen Hall Auditorium. For more information about the Master of Fines Arts in Creative Writing, please contact one of the founding faculty: James Matthew Wilson Poetry [email protected] Joshua Michael Hren Fiction [email protected] He has hosted two 13-part television series about Shakespeare on EWTN, and has also written and presented documentaries on EWTN on the Catholicism of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit . His verse drama, Death Comes for the War Poets , was performed off-Broadway to critical acclaim. He has participated and lectured at a wide variety of international and literary events at major colleges and universities in the U.S., Canada, Britain, Europe, Africa and South America. He is editor of the St. Austin Review ( staustinreview.org ), series editor of the Ignatius Critical Editions ( ignatiuscriticaleditions.com ), senior instructor with Homeschool Connections ( homeschoolconnectionsonline.com ), and senior contributor at the Imaginative Conservative . His personal website is jpearce.co . Katy Carl is the author of As Earth Without Water, a novel (Wiseblood, 2021) and Fragile Objects (Wiseblood, 2023, forthcoming). She is a senior affiliate fellow of the Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society through the University of Pennsylvania and editor in chief of Dappled Things magazine in partnership with the Ars Vivendi Initiative of the Collegium Institute. Brigid Pasulka's debut novel A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) won the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Barnes & Noble Discover Award, and the Polish American Historical Society Creative Arts Award. It was translated into six languages, including Polish. Her second novel, The Sun and Other Stars (Simon & Schuster) was a Chicago Tribune Editor's Choice and an Indie Next Pick. Pasulka’s short stories have been published in various literary journals. She lives with her husband and son in Northern Michigan.
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THE UVA MFA PROGRAM The University of Virginia's MFA in Creative Writing Program is a three-year graduate program that, starting in 2023-24, admits four poets and four fiction writers each academic year. Students have the option to graduate in two years on an accelerated schedule. Our program is full time and residency is required for all years of study.*
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THE MFA PROGRAM The Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program at the University of Virginia is a three-year graduate program that admits four poets and four fiction writers each academic year. Our program is full time and residency is required.*. Because the program is so small, our admissions process is extremely competitive.
The graduate program in English at the University of Virginia has long been a distinguished one. We offer three graduate degrees, including the Master of Arts, the Doctor of Philosophy, and the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. While the following section of the website deals primarily with the MA and PhD degree programs, you can find ...
MFA Curriculum. To receive the degree of Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, a student accepted into the UVA Graduate School of Arts and Sciences completes twenty-four hours of required coursework and up to forty-eight hours of non-topical research. Applicants can view current and historical course offerings in our Student Information ...
The University of Virginia Creative Writing Program is the home of a two-year, fully funded MFA program and undergraduate concentrations in poetry writing and literary prose. We offer creative writing courses starting at the introductory level for undergraduates on up to our graduate workshops and form of fiction/poetry classes. All of our graduate students are fully funded and our MFA Program ...
Undergraduates can take a full spectrum of elective poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, beginning with ENCW 2200, 2300, and 2600, introductory classes usually taught by MFA students in our graduate program. These 2000-level classes introduce students to poetic and narrative techniques, teach close reading of literary texts, and employ a ...
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If you join our three-year MFA program in 2024, you will receive fellowship support and/or teaching income in the amount of up to $31,518 in the first two academic years and up to $25,214 in the third, as well as full funding of your tuition, enrollment fees, and the health insurance premium for single-person coverage through the university.
October 26, 2009. October 26, 2009 — The University of Virginia's Creative Writing Program ranks third among 140 full-residency programs offering a Master of Fine Arts degree in poetry, fiction or nonfiction, according to a survey by Poets & Writers magazine, reported in its November/December issue. The Creative Writing Program was ranked ...
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The Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program at the University of Virginia is a three-year graduate program that, starting in 2023-24, admits four poets and four fiction writers each academic year. University of Virginia. Charlottesville , Virginia , United States. Top 1% worldwide. Studyportals University Meta Ranking.
M.F.A. in Creative Writing. The Master of Fine Arts at West Virginia University is a three-year program that combines work in a primary genre and at least one other genre with course offerings in literature, pedagogy and professional writing and editing. Genres include fiction, nonfiction and poetry. All Master of Fine Arts students receive a ...
The M.F.A. in Creative Writing is designed to be completed in three years. Students may specialize in Fiction or Poetry. A minimum of 49 hours is required for this terminal degree. A series of creative writing workshops, courses in form and theory, new media writing, composition pedagogy, and literature and theory electives are designed for ...
MFA in Writing. The Michener Center for Writers is the only Creative Writing M.F.A. program in the world that provides full and equal funding to every writer—yet it is our extraordinary faculty and sense of community that most distinguishes us. Our program is a three-year, fully-funded residency M.F.A. with a unique multi-disciplinary focus.
MFA in Creative Writing. Our selective and academically rigorous 48-credit, three-year program is designed to provide talented writers with the opportunity to work closely with both outstanding faculty and gifted peers. Students will strengthen their craft, develop their literary aesthetics, enrich their understanding of existing traditions and ...
Teaching opportunities. In their second year, all of our students teach a 1/1 load of creative writing in poetry or fiction and the courses are largely of their own design. In a third year, our students teach a 2/2 load and primarily in first-year undergraduate writing (composition).
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The University of Virginia (UVA) based in Charlottesville, VA offers a three-year fully funded MFA in creative writing. This MFA program admits five poets and five fiction writers each academic year. This degree of master of fine arts in creative writing is a full-time residency program. Students will receive fellowship support and/or teaching ...
Full-Time Faculty. Rita Bullwinkel. [email protected]. Rita Bullwinkel is ... the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Bread Loaf. Education: Iowa Writers' Workshop, MFA in Creative Writing, 2017; New York University, MA in English and American Literature, 2003 ... San Francisco State University, MFA in Creative Writing, 1996; Ithaca ...
MFA Application. All applications to the MFA program must be submitted via the VCU admissions portal. This includes creative writing portfolios and graduate assistantship applications. Admission to VCU's MFA program in Creative Writing is quite competitive, with roughly 200 applications received yearly for only 8-10 spots.
The Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at the University of St. Thomas offers an advanced apprenticeship in poetry and fiction, taught by a host of distinguished writers and scholars. The MFA in Creative Writing integrates intense and invigorating workshops in writing with a series of comprehensive seminars in the Catholic literary ...
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The Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, offered by the Thomas Wolfe Center for Narrative at Lenoir-Rhyne University in Asheville, is designed to help students with a passion for writing hone their skills and develop their vision. Students can specialize in fiction, poetry or creative nonfiction.
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