Georgia State University
Georgia, United States
Residential programThe Georgia State University Department of English’s Creative Writing Program offers diverse and challenging educational experiences in the literary arts. Our award-winning faculty of poets and fiction writers mentor undergraduate and graduate students who come to GSU to study the craft and art of writing, and to prepare for careers in writing, publishing, and academia.
We award the PhD in English, Concentration in Creative Writing and the BA in English, Concentration in Creative Writing.
Creative Writing Program students enjoy the benefits of living and writing in Atlanta, an international city with a vibrant literary culture, and great art, music, and food. Our students come from all over—Massachusetts, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas, Nigeria, California, Nebraska, and even Georgia. Those students publish novels and collections of poems and stories, place work in top literary magazines, and win important prizes, fellowships, and contests.
Our faculty includes Danielle Cadena Deulen (poetry & creative nonfiction), Beth Gylys (poetry), John Holman (fiction), Sheri Joseph (fiction), and Josh Russell (fiction & creative nonfiction). Every member of the Creative Writing Program faculty has published with top commercial, independent, or university presses a book or books that have received significant critical attention, and each faculty member has received major awards, honors, or fellowships, including the Whiting Writer’s Award, The Grub Street National Book Prize, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.
The Georgia State University Department of English and Creative Writing Program is home to the award-winning Five Points: A Journal of Literature and Art.
The Creative Writing Program’s Events Series brings to campus nationally and internationally known writers who give public readings and lectures and meet with students for workshops and Q&A sessions. Recent visitors have included Lydia Davis, Jim Crace, ZZ Packer, Aleksandar Hemon, Tom Franklin, Colson Whitehead, Hannah Tinti, Stuart Dybek, Lauren Groff, Edward Hirsch, Heidi Julavits, and Percival Everett.
Please view our Facebook page (facebook.com/gsucreativewriting) for news, notes, and events.
Contact Information
25 Park Place, 23rd Floor
Dept of English
Atlanta
Georgia, United States
30303
Phone: (404) 413-5848
Email: heather@gsu.edu
english.gsu.edu
Undergraduate Program Director
Josh RussellDirector of the Creative Writing Program
Georgia, United States
Email: josh@gsu.edu
Please visit english.gsu.edu for up-to-date information.
Largest Class Size: 20Smallest Class Size: 18
Genres: Fiction, Poetry
Unit of Measure: Hours
Graduate Program Director
Josh RussellDirector of the Creative Writing Program
Georgia, United States
Email: josh@gsu.edu
Largest Class Size: 12
Smallest Class Size: 8
Genres: Fiction, Poetry
Duration of Study: 5 years
Unit of Measure: Credits
Other Requirements: Foreign language exam and a final MFA exam; thesis completed under a director with the approval of a second and third reader.
Application Requirements: Transcripts, Writing Sample, Application Form, Letters of Recommendation, Cover Letter
Danielle Cadena Deulen Cadena Deulen
Danielle Cadena Deulen is the author of the poetry collections Desire Museum, Lovely Asunder, and Our Emotions Get Carried Away Beyond Us, and the memoir The Riots.
Beth Gylys
Beth Gylys' books are Bodies that Hum, winner of the Gerald Cable First Book Award, Spot in the Dark, winner of Ohio State University Press / The Journal Award in Poetry, Sky Blue Enough to Drink, Body Braille, and The Conversation Turns to Wide-Mouth Jars.
Sheri Joseph
Sheri Joseph is the author of the novels Where You Can Find Me and Stray, and the cycle of stories Bear Me Safely Over, and has been awarded the Grub Street National Book Prize and a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship.
John Holman
John Holman is the author of Squabble and Other Stories, Luminous Mysteries, and Triangle Ray and winner of a Whiting Writers' Award.
Josh Russell
Josh Russell is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship and the author of the novels Yellow Jack, My Bright Midnight, and A True History of the Captivation, Transport to Strange Lands, & Deliverance of Hannah Guttentag, and the story collection King of the Animals.
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Recent visitors have included Lydia Davis, Jim Crace, ZZ Packer, Aleksandar Hemon, Tom Franklin, Colson Whitehead, Hannah Tinti, Stuart Dybek, Lauren Groff, Edward Hirsch, Heidi Julavits, and Percival Everett.
