University of Kansas - MFA Creative Writing Posted on April 23rd
KU’s newly established MFA program offers students tracks in fiction writing, poetry writing, playwriting, and creative nonfiction. The full-time creative writing faculty of seven has been widely published and anthologized and has been awarded such distinctions as the Gertrude Stein Award, the Kenyon Review Prize, the Sue Kaufman Prize, the Kennedy Center Gold Medallion, and the Pushcart Prize.
Students who finish their course work in two years may have the third year devoted almost entirely to the writing of the thesis. Internships are available with Cottonwood, KU’s nationally recognized literary review, as well as the department’s award-winning English Alternative Theater, and students with assistantships have the opportunity to teach a course in creative writing. In recent years, writers Salman Rushdie, Rita Dove, Cristina Garcia, Kent Haruf, Ted Kooser, Sherman Alexie, Cherrie Moraga, Nuruddin Farah, Diane Williams, Paul Muldoon, Sam Lipsyte, and many others have come to the campus to give seminars and readings.
Department of English
Wescoe Hall
1445 Jayhawk Blvd., Room 3116
Lawrence KS 66045-7590
