Creative Writing, MFA at George Mason University

The MFA in creative writing is a three-year residency program offering tracks in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Students in the program are members of a literary community that includes Watershed Lit: Center for Literary Engagement and Publishing Practice, a student-organized program of readings, two journals, and a Visiting Writers series. Resident faculty members include recipients of prestigious writing awards such as the Guggenheim Foundation, the Yale Series of Younger Poets, the Lannan Foundation, the Whiting Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, among others.

Faculty: College of Humanities and Social Sciences  |  Duration: 48 credits  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Location: Fairfax, VA, United States

What you will study

Total 48 credits. Curriculum courses listed include Graduate Literature Survey; Topics in Literary and Cultural Studies; Selected Topics, Movements, or Genres of Literature in English; Craft Seminars 2; Visiting Writers; Forms of Fiction.

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