Frequently requested information about our graduate and undergraduate programs:
For a listing of our creative writing faculty and staff, see our faculty page.
An MFA program's funding package shouldn't be hard to decipher. For details on our graduate support, see our funding page.
Are you a UVA undergrad who can't enroll in SIS? Questions about which ENCW to take? A local resident who wants to take a class? See our undergraduate CW page.
Some programs tell you to read their faculty books before applying. Sure, but you might also want to look at recent publications from and awards received by our MFA, APLP, and APPW program alums.
For our current creative writing (ENCW) offerings, both at the undergraduate- and graduate-level, see the CW Program page on Lou's List.
For a Google calendar of our upcoming public events, see our calendar page.
Just a few of the recent news items about our program, faculty, students, and alumni.
Kudos to UVA MFA alum Michael Chitwood, winner of this year's Library of Virginia Literary Award in Poetry. And congratulations also to MFA alums Erika Meitner and James A. McLaughlin, who were finalists in the poetry and fiction genres. See the Richmond Times-Dispatch article here.
Acacia Johnson, one of our first-year MFAs, has a story and photo series in the current National Geographic, which you can see here.
Ranking creative writing programs is a fraught enterprise because we're all so different. But here's one site that tries to quantify its results based on alumni publications in several annual "Best of" anthologies. In fact, if you sort on just fiction or poetry, we're #1 in both categories, and #2 if you include nonfiction. See the rankings here.
Faculty member Rita Dove has been awarded the prestigious Wallace Stevens Award for “proven mastery” in poetry, and APPW alum Kyle Dargan the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for the past year’s outstanding poetry book from the Academy of American Poets. See an AP release here.
MFA in Fiction (2005) Mary Beth Keane had her new novel, Ask Again, Yes selected by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as their 2019 Summer Read. See Mary Beth on the show here.
Almost every Thursday night at 8 p.m., our MFAs gather for a reading by one prose writer and one poet at New Dominion Bookshop on the Downtown Mall. Please come to support an independent bookstore and our emerging writers. Full event poster here.
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