Texas Tech University
Texas, United States
Residential programOur creative writing students may take workshops in nonfiction, fiction, and poetry as well as a wide range of literature and translation courses. Balancing creative and scholarly interests, graduate students accepted into the program will participate in small and intensive workshops and literature seminars, and they will write creative portfolios or dissertations. While the program does not require it, students are encouraged to develop their writing skills in several genres. We offer competitive stipends for 6 to 8 incoming MA students and 5 to 6 incoming PhD students. We are currently expanding our program with more faculty, students, funding, resources, and opportunities.
Contact Information
PO Box 43091
English Dept.
Lubbock
Texas, United States
79409-3091
Phone: 806-742-2501
Email: Jill.Patterson@ttu.edu
http://english.ttu.edu/cw/CW_Grad_default.asp
Undergraduate Program Director
Leslie Jill PattersonDirector of Creative Writing
PO Box 43091
English Dept.
Lubbock
Texas, United States
79409-3091
Email: Jill.Patterson@ttu.edu
URL: http://english.ttu.edu/cw/CW_Grad_default.asp
Our creative writing emphasis requires two workshops at the junior level (ENGL 3351) in two different genres. We offer workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. We then require at least one enrollment in the senior level workshop (ENGL 4351), which is also offered as a single-genre workshop in either poetry, fiction, or creative nonfiction. Enrollment in ENGL 4351 is by permission of instructor; students may repeat ENGL 4351 as an elective, either in the same genre or different genres.
Students may take the creative writing sequence as an emphasis in the English B.A. degree at Texas Tech (so indicated on the transcript); the sequence is also open to students in other majors. Our main interest is in your writing. Related opportunities—assisting with our undergraduate literary journal, Harbinger Journal of Art and Literature, creative writing clubs, and two reading series that bring in established and emerging writers—are also available.
Type of Program: StudioLargest Class Size: 17
Smallest Class Size: 10
Genres: Fiction, Poetry, Creative Nonfiction
Unit of Measure: Hours
Graduate Program Director
Leslie Jill PattersonDirector of Creative Writing
PO Box 43091
English Dept.
Lubbock
Texas, United States
79409-3091
Email: Jill.Patterson@ttu.edu
URL: http://english.ttu.edu/cw/CW_Grad_default.asp
Our creative writing students may take workshops in nonfiction, fiction, and poetry as well as a wide range of literature and translation courses. Balancing creative and scholarly interests, graduate students accepted into the program will participate in small and intensive workshops and literature seminars, and they will write a creative portfolio or thesis. While the program does not require it, students are encouraged to work in more than one genre. We offer six competitive stipends to incoming MA students. All MA students will teach in our First-Year Writing program and have the chance to serve as readers for Iron Horse Literary Review. We are currently expanding our program with more faculty, students, funding, resources, and opportunities.
Type of Program: Studio/ResearchLargest Class Size: 11
Smallest Class Size: 10
Genres: Fiction, Poetry, Creative Nonfiction
Duration of Study: 2 years
Unit of Measure: Hours
Thesis: 6
Total Units for Degree: 36
Other Requirements: Students are encouraged to finish a portfolio rather than a thesis. Portfolio students complete 12 hours (4 creative writing workshops) rather than 6 hours and the thesis.
Application Requirements: Transcripts, Writing Sample, Application Form, Letters of Recommendation, Cover Letter
Graduate Program Director
Leslie Jill PattersonDirector of Creative Writing
PO Box 43091
English Dept.
Lubbock
Texas, United States
79409-3091
Email: Jill.Patterson@ttu.edu
URL: http://english.ttu.edu/cw/CW_Grad_default.asp
Our creative writing students may take workshops in nonfiction, fiction, and poetry as well as a wide range of literature and translation courses. Balancing creative and scholarly interests, graduate students accepted into the program will participate in small and intensive workshops and literature seminars, and they will write a creative dissertation with a critical introduction. While the program does not require it, students are encouraged to develop their writing skills in several genres. We offer five competitive stipends to incoming PhD students: all PhD students will teach in our First-Year Writing program, teach classes in literature and creative writing after their second year and may have the chance to serve as a managing editor for Iron Horse Literary Review. We are currently expanding our program with more faculty, students, funding, resources, and opportunities.
Type of Program: Studio/ResearchLargest Class Size: 11
Smallest Class Size: 10
Genres: Fiction, Poetry, Creative Nonfiction
Unit of Measure: Hours
Thesis: 6
Total Units for Degree: 36
Other Requirements: Upon completion of their course work, students will write their comprehensive exams and then write a creative dissertation with a critical introduction.
Application Requirements: Transcripts, Writing Sample, Application Form, Letters of Recommendation, GRE, Cover Letter
Jacqueline Kolosov
The Red Queen's Daughter, Vago, Modigliani's Muse, and other books.
http://www.english.ttu.edu/general_info/directory/faculty_profile_pages/kolosov_wenthe.asp
Leslie Jill Patterson
Leslie Jill Patterson is the founding Editor of Iron Horse Literary Review and a Soros Justice Fellow. Her prose has been published in Texas Monthly, The Rumpus, Gulf Coast, Creative Nonfiction, Fourth Genre, Hunger Mountain, and other literary journals and anthologies. Since 2009, she has also worked as the case storyteller on over forty public defense teams representing men and women charged with capital murder and facing execution across the Southern United States. Her awards include a Embrey Foundation Human Rights Fellowship, the Richard J. Margolis Award for Social Justice Writing, and a Pushcart Prize.
http://www.english.ttu.edu/general_info/directory/faculty_profile_pages/patterson_detailed.asp
William Wenthe
Birds of Hoboken and Not Till We Are Lost, and has written a libretto for an opera, Bellini's War, performed in 2001. He is the recipient of an NEA Fellowship and a Pushcart Prize, among other awards.
http://www.english.ttu.edu/general_info/directory/faculty_profile_pages/wenthe_detailed.asp
Curtis Bauer
Curtis Bauer specializes in creative writing (poetry) and Spanish translation. His areas of interest are American and world poetry, poetry and fiction in translation and chapbook publishing. He is the is the author of three poetry collections, most recently American Selfie (Barrow Street Press, 2019), available in Spanish translation as Selfi Americano (Vaso Roto Ediciones, 2022). He is also a translator of poetry and prose from the Spanish: his publications include the novel The Home Reading Service, by Fabio Morábito (Other Press, 2021), the memoir Land of Women, by María Sánchez (Trinity University Press, 2022) and the poetry collection This Could Take Some Time by Clara Muschietti (eulalia books, 2022). His other translations include Image of Absence, by Jeannette L. Clariond (The Word Works Press, 2018), which won the International Latino Book Award for “Best Nonfiction Book Translation from Spanish to English,” From Behind What Landscape, by Luis Muñoz (Vaso Roto Ediciones, 2015) and Eros Is More, by Juan Antonio González Iglesias (Alice James Books, 2014).
Katie Cortese
Katie Cortese is the author of Girl Power and Other Short-Short Stories (ELJ Editions, 2015) and Make Way for Her and Other Stories (University Press of Kentucky, 2018). Her work has earned prizes from Narrative Magazine, River Styx, Silk Road, and elsewhere. She has been granted a Tennessee Williams Scholarship to attend the Sewanee Writer's Conference, a Kingsbury Fellowship, and a residency at the Arte Studio Ginestrelle in Assisi, Italy. Her prose has recently appeared in journals such as Gargoyle, Indiana Review, Gulf Coast, Third Coast, Blackbird, Word Riot, and PANK. The Faculty Director of Texas Tech University Press, she is also the series editor of the Iron Horse Prize, a contest offering publication to a first book of collected prose.
Marcus Burke
Marcus Burke grew up in Milton, Massachusetts. Burke graduated from Susquehanna University where he played four years of Varsity basketball. Burke went on to receive his MFA at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop where he was awarded a Maytag Fellowship, an Iowa Arts Fellowship, and upon graduation, a competitive grant in honor of James Alan McPherson from the University of Iowa MacArthur Foundation Fund. Burke’s debut novel, TEAM SEVEN, was published in 2014 by Doubleday Books. TEAM SEVEN received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews, was long-listed for the 2015 PEN Open Book Award, and was one of the “10 Titles to Pick Up Now,” in O, The Oprah Magazine. Burke was the inaugural Creative Writing Fellow at Susquehanna University, 2016-2017. He is currently at work on his next novel.
Lucy Schiller
Lucy Schiller received her MFA from the University of Iowa's Nonfiction Program, where she was an Iowa Arts Fellow and the Provost's Fellow in Nonfiction. Afterward, she served as the Olive B. O’Connor Fellow in nonfiction writing at Colgate University. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Millions, The New Republic, The Rumpus, Lit Hub, Essay Daily, Diagram, and elsewhere.
https://www.lucy-schiller.work/aboutme
