Vanderbilt University - MFA Creative Writing Posted on April 26th
Creative Writing has been a vital part of the Vanderbilt English Department for nearly a century, since the poet and critic John Crowe Ransom’s famous class which he called “a practical course in writing various types of prose, including the short story.” Notable students who studied with Ransom at Vanderbilt include Robert Penn Warren, Randall Jarrell, and Peter Taylor. Vanderbilt’s writing tradition continues today with the English Department’s new Master of Fine Arts Program.
The M.F.A. at Vanderbilt is a two-year program involving four semesters of graduate work in writing workshops and seminars. Students enrolled will take a workshop and two seminars each semester, until their final semester, when work on the thesis will take the place of the seminars. The thesis will be a substantial piece of creative writing: a novel, a collection of short stories, or a collection of poems.
