Arizona State University
Arizona, United States
Residential programThe master of fine arts degree in creative writing, offered by the Department of English in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, nurtures and challenges individual talent amid a community of dedicated writers. The program offers the MFA in fiction and in poetry. Students tailor their course of study to fit individual needs, talents, and goals, while working under the direction of faculty who are practicing, publishing writers of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry.
Required course work includes writing workshops and literature courses, and three semesters of one-on-one independent work with faculty designed to guide the student's culminating experience, a manuscript of creative work. Several campus entities play key roles in the MFA community: the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing offers students a wide range of support and opportunities, travel scholarships, professional development support, and other teaching and leadership opportunities, including an Outreach Graduate Assistantship; also, the Center for Imagination in the Borderlands brings writers and other artists for intensive workshops, classes, and public events, and it offers Artistic Development and Teaching Assistant Fellowships. The MFA program also hosts a newly inaugurated series of craft lectures and an alumni reading series.
Students have access to a variety of additional professional development opportunities, including serving on the editorial board of an international literary journal, Hayden's Ferry Review; translation experience through the Thousand Languages Project; and internships with award-winning independent literary press Four Way Books.
MFA candidates are offered a TAship and, when available, additional funding. For more information, visit https://english.clas.asu.edu/degree/graduate/mfa-creative-writing
Contact Information
PO Box 870302
Dept of English, Creative Writing Program
Tempe
Arizona, United States
85287-0302
Phone: (480) 727-9130
Email: justin.petropoulos@asu.edu
https://english.asu.edu/academics/areas-of-study/creative-writing
Undergraduate Program Director
Sally BallCreative Writing Program Director
PO Box 870302
Dept of English, Creative Writing Program
Tempe
Arizona, United States
85287-0302
Email: sally.ball@asu.edu
URL: english.clas.asu.edu/creativewriting/
Undergraduate Program Director
Sally BallCreative Writing Program Director
PO Box 870302
Dept of English, Creative Writing Program
Tempe
Arizona, United States
85287-0302
Email: sally.ball@asu.edu
URL: english.clas.asu.edu/creativewriting/
Graduate Program Director
Sally BallCreative Writing Program Director
PO Box 870302
Dept of English, Creative Writing Program
Tempe
Arizona, United States
85287-0302
Email: sally.ball@asu.edu
URL: https://english.clas.asu.edu/degree/graduate/mfa-creative-writing
The master of fine arts degree in Creative Writing, offered by the Department of English in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, nurtures and challenges individual talent amid a community of dedicated writers. The program offers students a unique opportunity to tailor a course of study to fit individual needs, talents, and goals, while working under the direction of faculty who are practicing, publishing writers of fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, plays, and screenplays. The program includes equal components in literature and writing. Required course work includes three practica: semester-long, one-on-one pairings with faculty designed to guide the student's work toward the thesis manuscript. A final comprehensive examination covers 20th century literature and critical theory. The program benefits from the tremendous resources of the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, housed on campus, which supports a vibrant visiting writers series, the graduate student-edited Hayden's Ferry Review, an annual writing conference, a wide variety of outreach programs with area schools and hospitals (among other organizations), and a remarkable global outreach program which has allowed degree candidates to study and teach in, among other places, Prague, China, Singapore, and Wales. The program also facilitates collaborations with musicians, composers, printmakers, photographers, and visual artists. As of this writing, all MFA candidates are offered a TA and, when available, additional funding. For more information, go to https://english.clas.asu.edu/admission/graduate-admission/master-fine-arts-creative-writing.
Type of Program: Studio/ResearchLargest Class Size: 10
Smallest Class Size: 7
Genres: Fiction, Poetry
Unit of Measure: Hours
Workshop: 15
Literature: 24
Total Units for Degree: 48
Other Requirements: Written comprehensive exam; thesis defense. See website for required courses and complete description of application requirements.
Application Requirements: Transcripts, Writing Sample, Application Form, Letters of Recommendation, Other
Sally Ball
Wreck Me, Annus Mirabilis, Hold Sway
https://www.saralouiseball.com/
Tara Ison
Rockaway, Ball, A Child Out of Alcatraz, The List, Reeling Through Life: How I Learned to Live, Love, and Die at the Movies, At the Hour Between Dog and Wolf
T. M. McNally
Until Your Heart Stops, Almost Home, The Goat Bridge, Low Flying Aircraft, Quick, The Gateway
https://english.asu.edu/content/t-mcnally
Alberto Alvaro Rios
The Dangerous Shirt, The Theater of Night, The Smallest Muscle, Pig Cookies
http://www.public.asu.edu/~aarios/
Matt Bell
In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods, Scrapper, How They Were Found, Appleseed, Refuse to Be Done
Natalie Diaz
When my Brother was an Aztec, Postcolonial Love Poem
https://www.nataliegermainediaz.com/
Jennifer Irish
Common Ancestor, I Am Faithful, Lupine
Mitchell Jackson
The Residue Years, Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family, FLY
https://www.mitchellsjackson.com/
Safiya Sinclair
Catacombs, Cannibal, How to Say Babylon
http://www.safiyasinclair.com/
Sarah Viren
Mine, To Name the Bigger Lie
