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M.F.A. and Creative Writing Community Digest: August 21, 2015
PW's take on this week's top stories from the world of creative writers and M.F.A. programs.
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M.F.A. And Creative Writing Community Digest: September 4, 2015
This week in the literary and M.F.A. communities: More rumblings around AWP and Red Hen Press, a new president for the U. of Iowa, and a new lit mag for trans poets.
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M.F.A. Program Profile: Emily Raboteau on CCNY
Fiction writer and memoirist Emily Raboteau teaches at City College (CCNY) in Harlem, New York. She talked to PW about the need for diversity in creative writing programs and the power of not being a "genre-snob."
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Spring 2015 M.F.A. Update: M.F.A. Programs to Watch
This roundup of creative writing programs includes some you’ll surely have heard of and some that may be unfamiliar.
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Spring 2015 M.F.A. Update: A Literary Season
In this M.F.A. Update, we help students choose the right program and guide them through the application process. Plus, we preview this year's AWP conference.
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Spring 2015 M.F.A. Update: PW Talks with Sherwin Bitsui
Poet Sherwin Bitsui’s most recent book is "Flood Song" (Copper Canyon, 2009); he serves on the faculty of the low-residency M.F.A. program at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe.
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Spring 2015 M.F.A. Update: Choices and Voices
Rufi Thorpe, author of The Girls from Corona Del Mar (Knopf), was a senior in college and “touchingly foolhardy” when she began applying to M.F.A. programs.
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Spring 2015 M.F.A. Update: Spotlight on New Books by M.F.A. Grads
We look at Sara Novic’s novel about a woman who grew up during the Yugoslav wars, Matt Sumell’s collection of linked stories about a man dealing with his mother’s death, a collection from Austin Bunn that takes readers over the edge, and more.
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Candlewick to Take First Look at Lesley M.F.A. Manuscripts
In what could well be a first-of-its-kind arrangement between an M.F.A. program and a publishing house, Candlewick Press has been given the right of first refusal to the final thesis manuscripts of students graduating from Lesley University's low-residency M.F.A. program in Creative Writing—Writing for Young People Program.
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Earning My Writing for Children M.F.A. at Simmons
The books I read as a child and teenager are the ones that left indelible impressions on me, though it took me a while to realize I wanted to dedicate myself to young people’s literature.
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More Children’s and YA Writing M.F.A. Programs: M.F.A. Update Fall 2014
Aspiring authors of children’s lit (YA, middle grade, and picture books) have far fewer choices when it comes to graduate work than their counterparts in the fiction, nonfiction, and poetry genres.
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Simmons College: Children’s Lit, in Theory and Practice: M.F.A. Update Fall 2014
The Center for the Study of Children’s Literature at Simmons College in Boston, established in 1977, was the nation’s first-ever master of arts in children’s literature.
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The M.F.A. Workshop: From Red Ink to Published Book
The workshop is the core of the creative writing M.F.A. Most graduate programs in creative writing require that students enroll in at least one workshop per semester.
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Why Writers Love Low-Residency Programs: M.F.A. Update 2014
For many people, traditional M.F.A. programs are impractical.
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Why Poets Get M.F.A.s: M.F.A. Update 2014
Let’s take it as a given that no one studies poetry for the money and fame, or at least not just for the (pitiful) money and (marginal) fame.
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University of Colorado Boulder: M.F.A. Update
Noah Eli Gordon, a poet and author, most recently of "The Year of the Rooster" (Ahsata, 2013), is on the faculty of the University of Colorado Boulder creative writing program.
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Success Story: PW Talks with Author Matthew Thomas - M.F.A. Update 2014
Thomas’s personal story is rather epic as well. The 39-year-old author honed his craft in two writing programs, and later worked as a school teacher while he finished his first novel—which he wrote by hand, toiling in obscurity for 10 years.
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Doctor of Creativity: M.F.A. Update 2014
The M.F.A. in creative writing is considered a terminal degree, and therefore qualifies graduates to teach at the college level.
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MFA Program Profile: Matthew Zapruder on St. Mary's
Poet Matthew Zapruder, author, most recently, of Sun Bear (Copper Canyon, 2014) is on the core faculty of St. Mary's Creative Writing program based in Moraga, CA. He talked to PW about what makes the program stand out.
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