Emerson College - MFA Creative Writing Program Posted on April 24th
U.S. News & World Report ranks Emerson’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program among the country’s top graduate programs of its kind. Well-respected, workshop-based MFA residency programs such as Emerson’s have proven to be incubators for rising literary talent. With one of the nation’s largest programs in creative writing, we are able to give you the breadth and depth of experience and instruction that most small programs cannot.
Our MFA program focuses on the actual practice of writing as well as its literary underpinnings. You are exposed to writing as an art form and as a professional pursuit. We know your goal is to publish, to bring your work to an audience and the marketplace.
The MFA program is a chance for you to explore aspects of writing and literature that interest you. Although you will concentrate in one literary genre (fiction, nonfiction, or poetry), you may elect to take workshops that cover a variety of topics. To complement the workshop experience, you will take literature courses and an array of electives, including courses offered by the master’s program in Publishing & Writing.
You will conclude the MFA program by producing a thesis of professional quality in a single genre: a novel or novel excerpt; a nonfiction book or excerpt; or a collection of poems, short stories, or essays. The thesis often forms the basis for future published work.
