Description
Revised and Updated!
The Creative Writing MFA Handbook guides prospective graduate students through the difficult process of researching, applying to, and choosing graduate schools in creative writing. The handbook includes profiles of fifty creative writing programs, guidance through the application process, advice from current professors and students including George Saunders, Aimee Bender, Tracy K. Smith, and Geoffrey Wolff, and the most comprehensive listings of graduate writing programs in and outside the United States. The handbook also includes special sections about Low-Residency writing programs, Ph.D. programs, publishing in literary journals, and workshop and teaching advice. In a remarkably concise, user-friendly fashion, The Creative Writing MFA Handbook answers as many questions as possible, and is packed with information, advice, and experience. This second edition updates and builds upon the first edition, which was published in 2005 to great acclaim and contains a vastly expanded ranking of current creative writing programs.
Table of Contents
Preface Chapter 1: The Basics Chapter 2: What to Look For In a Creative Writing Program Chapter 2A: Criteria Chapter 3: The Programs Chapter 3A: Note to Program Directors Chapter 4: The Application Process Chapter 4A: Application Checklist Chapter 5: Decision Time Chapter 6: Your Creative Writing Program Chapter 6A: The Low-Residency Experience: An Interview with Scott McCabe Chapter 6B: The Workshop Chapter 6C: Your Teaching Chapter 6D: Publishing in Literary Journals Afterword: “Counterpoint: A Guide to the MFA and Beyond from an Outsider Who Became an Insider” by Adam Johnson Appendix A: Interviews Appendix B: Links to Reading Lists Appendix C: Helpful Online Sources Appendix D: List of Programs Appendix D1: Masters Programs in Creative Writing Appendix D2: Ph.D. Writing Programs Appendix D3: Low-Residency MFA Programs Appendix D4: Graduate Writing Programs outside the U.S Acknowledgements
Author(s)
Tom Kealey, Tom Kealey graduated from the MFA Creative Writing program at the University of Massachusetts in 2001, and afterwards he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in fiction at Stanford University. He currently teaches at Stanford. He has been in many, many writing workshops, both as a student and as a teacher. At the University of Massachusetts he was the recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award. You can read more about Kealey on his blog: http://creative-writing-mfa-handbook.blogspot.com
Reviews
"When Walt Whitman, a real fan of know-how, said, "To have great poets, there must be great audiences too," he was looking the world in the face: artists and audiences have merged, and one of the first stops on their way to school is the MFA Handbook: it shows the huge range of aesthetic choices open to any young writer who wants to try to become a better writer, a better reader." - Tom Sleigh, Director of the Hunter College MFA
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