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News & Accolades
Lookout Books' Binocular Vision wins the National Book Critics Circle Award
Lookout poet John Rybicki connects with middle school students by Ethan Warren
MFA students attend National Book Awards by Arianne Beros
Books published by our students and alumni
The Coast Line: Newsletter of the Department of Creative Writing
The MFA program gave me the freedom to play in a multitude of disciplines: screenwriting, book building, nonfiction, poetry, graphic novels, and, of course, fiction. I consider this a tremendous gift. —Carmen Rodrigues,
MFA fiction '10, author of Not Anything and 34 Pieces of You.
The MFA in Creative Writing
Our MFA program—an intensive, three-year studio-academic experience in the writing of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction—joins students who share a common passion and faculty members who provide critical support of their work. The faculty of the Department of Creative Writing view MFA students as colleagues-in-the-making. To help initiate them into the profession, we offer a series of panels and workshops designed to address practical issues that lie outside the scope of the writing workshop.
Our faculty members consider it a privilege to teach in such a community, and our invitation to successful candidates to join our MFA community is an equal privilege and should be regarded as such. We do all that we can to mentor our MFA students to successful lives as writers; in return we ask that they contribute something of value to our writing community.
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