Creative Writing @ U.Va.
Our Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program is a two-year graduate degree in fiction and poetry writing. Consistently ranked among the top MFA programs in the nation, the program is full time, residency required, and workshop-based, with a small, but aesthetically diverse group of students and faculty. Our application deadline this year is December 15, 2012. At the undergraduate level, we offer an Area Program in Poetry Writing, which is an English major with a specialization in poetry. To learn more, see our Area Program page. Both our graduate and undergraduate programs are housed in U.Va.'s outstanding English Department. If you live in the area and would like to receive e-mails about creative writing readings and events, please add your e-mail to this list.
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- Faculty member Chris Tilghman's new novel, The Right-Hand Shore, is described by the NY Times as "a magisterial creation of a writer with an uncanny feel for the intersections of place and character in American history."
- Our undergraduate Area Program in Poetry Writing gets a nice write up in UVA Today. Article includes a hi-res image of the CW Lounge for those alums feeling nostalgic.
- The New York Times releases its 10 Best Books of 2011 list, and MFA fiction alums Eleanor Henderson and Chad Harbach are two of the five fiction picks. An amazing coup: 40% of the year's best fiction from UVA.
- Mary Beth Keane (Fiction 2005) is selected by the National Book Foundation for their "5 under 35" honor in fiction.
- Chad Harbach (Fiction 2004) has an excerpt of his new novel, The Art of Fielding published in Vanity Fair. (And who says the days of great fiction in national magazines are over?).
- Eleanor Henderson's (Fiction 2005) Ten Thousand Saints is reviewed on page one of the New York Times Book Review.
- Sierra Bellows (Fiction 2008) discusses what happens when you put down "spy" as an occupation while traveling in India.
- Current Student Austin Smith (Poetry 2012) wins the Henfield Prize in fiction, selected by judge Margo Livesey for UVA's first $10,000 award.
- U.Va. MFA Program Ranked among nation's best in Poets & Writers.