University of Arizona - Master of Fine Arts Creative Writing Posted on April 22nd
Founded in 1974, the University of Arizona MFA program is ranked one of the top ten graduate writing programs in the country. The focus here is on writing in a community of practitioners of the craft, a two-year residency combining workshops, craft seminars, and interdisciplinary opportunities, culminating in the production of the thesis, a book-length manuscript in fiction, poetry, or nonfiction.
Writing and writer-to-writer conversations are at the heart of this MFA experience, in and out of the classroom. We work closely with The University of Arizona Poetry Center, a world-renowned literary archive and beautiful place for study (see link on this page). “Conceptual Poetry and Its Others,” a symposium, will take place there on May 29-31, hosted by Marjorie Perloff. Graduate students edit our literary magazine, The Sonora Review, now in its twenty-seventh year. The latest issue includes work by Lydia Millet, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, and an interview of Tom Franklin. Besides the Poetry Center’s Reading Series and the UA Prose Series, students read work biweekly in the Work-in-Progress Reading Series at Casa Libre en la Solada in downtown Tucson.
Questions? Contact Aurelie Sheehan, Director, or Marlene Cooksey, Program Assistant.
Application deadline for 2009-2010: January 1, 2009.
University of Arizona
Creative Writing Program
Department of English
PO Box 210067
Tucson, AZ 85721-0067
520.621.3880
