MFA Collective A creative writing magazine written by students in creative writing programs.

Creative Writing at San Francisco State University offers students a chance to develop their writing under the tutelage of an actively publishing faculty and visiting writers in poetry, fiction and playwriting. All of our tenure/tenure-track faculty are also advisers who can help you plan your academic program. Contact the Creative Writing Department for their office hours and phone numbers.

Our curriculum in poetry, fiction, and playwriting is both solid and innovative. A special feature, one that sets our programs apart from all others, is the Creative Process classes (CW 510 and CW 810). Along with our core curriculum of workshops and literature courses, we are constantly refining and reinventing the Creative Process area. According to many of our students, these variable topic courses on the art, technique and theory of writing are most valuable for their progress as writers. Each course combines extensive reading with complementary writing assignments and exercises. Please check out the Spring 2008 Course Descriptions.

We have excellent resources such as the Poetry Center, as well as the advantage of the vast literary world of the San Francisco Bay Area. The Humanities Building where the Creative Writing classes meet is only a few blocks away from the Pacific Ocean.
Students come from all over the world to enroll in our undergraduate and graduate programs. SFSU is famous for its cultural and ethnic diversity. The intense competition for admission to our graduate programs makes for an exceptionally gifted and committed student body. Our Graduate Student organization, The Wordsmith’s Guild, works hard to develop a sense of community in the Creative Writing Graduate Programs.

Our students publish two literary journals: Fourteen Hills and Transfer.
The department offers many awards to our most promising students.

We offer three degrees in our program: The B.A. in English: Creative Writing, the M.A. in English: Creative Writing, and the M.F.A. in Creative Writing.