The Creative Writing MFA Handbook A Guide for Prospective Graduate Students,9780826418173

The Creative Writing MFA Handbook A Guide for Prospective Graduate Students

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ISBN13: 9780826418173
ISBN10: 0826418171
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-12-28
Publisher(s): Bloomsbury Academic
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Summary

Tom Kealey's Creative Writing MFA Handbook is a friend and advisor to the prospective graduate student. Designed to guide students though the sometimes intimidating world of advanced writing degrees, it offers a variety of features for those contemplating graduate school: Profiles of fifty creative writing programs, Advice for future students for making the most of their graduate program, An insider's look at low-residency programs, Interviews with program directors, professors, and students, including George Saunders, Aimee Bender, Geoffrey Wolff, Michael Collier, Tracy K. Smith, and Rachel Kadish. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Tom Kealey is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and a graduate of the MFA program in creative writing at the University of Massachusetts Amherst

Table of Contents

Preface vii
Chapter 1: The Basics 1(15)
Chapter 2: What to Look for in a Creative Writing Program 16(16)
Criteria
19(13)
Chapter 3: The Programs 32(25)
A Note to Program Directors
53(4)
Chapter 4: The Application Process 57(25)
Checklist for Applying to Creative Writing Programs
78(4)
Chapter 5: Decision Time 82(10)
Chapter 6: Your Graduate Program 92(29)
Low-Residency Programs: An Interview with Scott McCabe
106(2)
Your Teaching
108(5)
The Writing Workshop
113(4)
Publishing in Literary Magazines
117(4)
Afterword: "Counterpoint: A Guide to the MFA and Beyond from an Outsider Who Became an Insider" 121(10)
Adam Johnson
Appendix A: Interviews 131(24)
Appendix B: Reading Lists 155(2)
Appendix C: Helpful Sources Online 157(6)
Appendix D: List of Writing Programs 163(50)
Master's Programs in Creative Writing
164(34)
Ph.D. Writing Programs in the United States
198(4)
Low-Residency M.F.A. Programs
202(4)
Graduate Writing Programs outside the United States
206(7)
Acknowledgments 213

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