Washington University in St. Louis - MFA Creative Writing Posted on April 25th
The Writing Program at Washington University is rigorous and challenging, requiring a full commitment from the student. Because of our selectivity and size, we are able to offer almost all our new students financial aid.
The program is a unique community of writers, scholars, and critics. While the program is designed by writers for writers, and differs significantly from a conventional academic program, it is an integral part of the English Department, and is closely associated with other graduate programs within the university.
Workshops are central to our curriculum. However, we believe that a writing program must balance time for one’s own work with participation in the ongoing intellectual life of the university. To that end we will recommend courses originating in the English Department, as well as courses from other departments. Our primary concern is not to make critics or, for that matter, creative writing teachers out of writers, but to challenge and broaden students’ perspectives.
We are proud of the accomplishments of the students and graduates of The Writing Program. Their fellowships and honors include The Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, The Whiting Writers’ Award, The Stegner Fellowship, The University of Texas and Texas Institute of Letters Dobie-Paisano Fellowship, and Breadloaf Writing Conference Scholarships. Their prizes include The National Poetry Series, Playboy’s Collegiate Fiction Writing Award, The O. Henry, The Pushcart, The Associated Writing Programs Award in Fiction, The Best American Short Stories, The National Society of Arts and Letters Fiction Award, the Drue Heinz Award for Fiction, the A.E. Hotchner Playwrighting Competition Award, and the Missouri Writers’ Biennial. Their publications include books from Algonquin Press, University of Wisconsin Press, University of Massachusetts Press, Penguin Press, Viking, Anvil Press, Ecco, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Pittsburgh Press, Heinemann Reed, and Johns Hopkins University Press. Fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and translations by students and graduates of The Writing Program have been published in The Southern Review, Grand Street, Conjunctions, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, The American Poetry Review, The Antioch Review, The Yale Review, Tri-Quarterly, Boston Review, The Writer’s Chronicle, Shenandoah, River Styx, The Literary Review, London Magazine, Ironwood, Playboy, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Quarterly, The Southwest Review, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, The New Orleans Review, Manoa, Story, Atlantic Monthly, North American Review, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, and many other fine literary journals.
Mail: Washington University, Department of English, CB 1122, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis MO 63130
Phone: (314) 935-5190
Email: english@artsci.wustl.edu
