Rutgers University - MFA Creative Writing Posted on April 25th
We’re very pleased to offer the Rutgers-Newark Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, and will begin accepting applications for our Fall 2009 class in Fiction, Poetry and Nonfiction in November 2008 (please see How To Apply). Our MFA Program, located on the most richly diverse undergraduate campus in the nation, a mere PATH train ride from Manhattan, will be both cutting edge and deeply important. Literature comprises the consciousness and conscience of a culture, and our MFA for the 21st Century is designed to nurture many voices.
Our Writing Faculty in Fiction includes novelist, short story writer and MFA Director Jayne Anne Phillips, novelist Tayari Jones, and short story writer Alice Elliott Dark (In The Gloaming). Our Poetry faculty are distinguished poet and translator Rachel Hadas and M.F. Steinhardt Visiting Writers Rigoberto González and D. Nurkse. Our accomplished Nonfiction faculty are Pulitzer Prize finalist James Goodman, Vietnam and science fiction specialist H. Bruce Franklin, and jazz pianist and author Lewis Porter. Many of the visiting editors and authors who comprise our Writers at Newark Reading Series do a workshop and all of them do MFA-only Q & A’s. Writers visiting in 2007/08 include, among others, Rick Moody, Suketu Mehta, Jo Ann Beard, Major Jackson, Katherine Russell Rich, Cornelius Eady, Dagoberto Gilb, Cyrus Cassells, Monique Troung, Elisa Albert, and Ed Schwarzschild.
We invite you, writers from diverse backgrounds and cultures, students whose
excellence as writers will enrich Rutgers-Newark and the Newark community,
to join us in this new and unique program in our exciting inaugural year. Please peruse our ideas, and apply by January 15, 2008, in order to be considered for financial aid. We encourage you to apply to this exciting new Program with a strong, competitive manuscript and the dedication required by your craft and your calling.
Rutgers-Newark
Department of English
Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing
Hill Hall Room 504
360 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.
Newark, New Jersey 07102-1801
Via Phone or Fax:
973.353.5279 ext. 622 (telephone)
973.353.1450 (fax)
