The Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing is a graduate program in creative writing based at the University of Southern Maine in Portland, Maine, United States. Stonecoast is one of the oldest low-residency creative writing programs in the United States and is notable for being one of...
Program Description ; 48 Semester hours are required. ; Each student is accepted into one of three genres: fiction, poetry, or creative nonfiction. ; Up to 9 semester hours of graduate transfer credit may be accepted if the coursework has been completed in the past six years. ; Graduate Assistantships are awarded a small number of qualified students who teach online sections of freshman-level writing courses. Blackboard training is required. Graduate Assistants are closely mentored by the Director of Composition.
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13 of them are directing these creative writing programs. Students direct their own reading series, Second Wind, pairing second year MFA students with community writers. They also edit and...
A low-residency program (or limited residency program) is a form of education, normally at the university level, which involves some amount of distance education and brief on-campus or specific-site residencies—residencies may be one weekend or several weeks. These programs are most frequ...
Join a community of diverse writers and become part of New York City’s publishing world at The New School's prestigious Creative Writing MFA program.
Our list of 255 MFA programs for creative writers includes essential information about low-residency and full-residency graduate creative writing programs in the United
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