Georgia State University - MFA Creative Writing Posted on April 23rd
GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY students enjoy the benefits of living and writing in Atlanta, an international city with a vibrant literary culture, and great art, music, and food. GSU’s rigorous studio/academic program offers the BA with a concentration in creative writing, and the MA, MFA, and PhD in poetry or fiction. (We’re one of one of only eight schools in the US that offer both the MFA and creative PhD.)
Our students come from all over—New York, Arkansas, Massachusetts, California, and even Georgia. Those students publish with St Martin’s, Carroll & Graf, Kensington Books, and Sage Hill Press, and in The Best American Poetry, AGNI, BOMB, Crazyhorse, Gettysburg Review, Glimmer Train, and McSweeney’s, and they win important prizes and fellowships, including the Poets & Writers Writers Exchange Contest, the Walter E. Dakin Fellowship from The Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship.
Members of our faculty have recently published books with Copper Canyon, MacAdam/Cage, and Ohio State University Press, and poems and short fiction in Mississippi Review, Epoch, Oxford American, and Poetry. Their awards include fellowships in fiction and poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference; the Whiting Writer’s Award; the Poets’ Prize; the Walt Whitman Award; and numerous other prizes, fellowships, and honors.
Every year we award an incoming graduate student the Paul Bowles Fellowship in Fiction, and every other year we award the Virginia Spencer Carr Fellowship in Prose. We also offer assistantships that allow the opportunity to teach writing to undergraduates. Georgia State is the home of the literary magazines Five Points and New South (formerly gsu review), and both of these journals provide students experience in literary editing and magazine production.
For more information, please visit the links to the left (some of which will take you to external sites), or contact:
John Holman, Director
Department of English
Georgia State University
P.O. Box 3970
Atlanta, Georgia 30303-3970
404-651-2900
404-651-1710 (fax)
