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Los Angeles Times, and the Nation. Her anthology of
Nineteenth-Century American Writers on Writing for The
Writers World series editor, Edward Hirsch, was
published in 2010.
Stephen Wright: Author of the novels Meditations in
Green, M31: A Family Romance, Going Native, and the
Amalgamation Polka. His work has also appeared in
Esquire, the Ontario Review, the Antioch Review, and the
anthology Avant-Pop. Awards and grants include the
Maxwell Perkins Prize, the Hodder Fellowship, a Whiting
Writers Award, a Guggenheim, and a Lannan Literary
Award. He has taught at Princeton, Brown., and Goucher
College.
ACADEMICS
All applicants to the MFA program declare a
concentration in one of four areas: fiction, poetry,
nonfiction, or writing for children. Students are required
to enroll in workshops within their concentration, but they
may elect literature seminars both outside and within their
field of study.
Applicants with substantial accomplishment in more than
one area of concentration may apply for a dual
concentration but must then declare a primary and a
secondary field of study. Students approved for a dual
concentration must fulfill all requirements in the primary
area of study and pursue an additional year of residence in
the secondary field. They must submit a separate thesis
project for each concentration.
DEGREE REQUIREMENTS
The MFA program is a 36-credit course of study, with
four concentrations as mentioned above: fiction,
nonfiction, poetry, and writing for children. Writing
workshops are balanced with literature seminars for the
first three semesters. Workshops are always in students’
concentrations, but those interested in taking some
literature seminars outside of their chosen field may elect
to do so.
During each of their first three terms, students enroll in
one writing workshop (4 credits) in their area of
concentration and one literature seminar (4 credits) and
must participate in the Writer’s Life Colloquium (1
credit). In the final term of residence, students continue
the Writer’s Life Colloquium while working closely with
an advisor or advisors in independent study leading to the
completion of both a Writing Thesis (4 credits) and a
Literature Project (4 credits) within their concentration.
The Writer’s Life Colloquium requirement is met by
participation in a minimum of eight approved literary or
related events at The New School, including craft
seminars (Fiction Forum, Poetry Forum, etc.), special
readings, publishing roundtables, and visiting writer
residencies. For more information about the
concentrations, writing workshops, literature seminars,
and the final writing thesis and literature project, see
below and visit the website, www.newschool.edu/writing.
The creative writing graduate program is designed to be
completed in two years of full-time study. All courses
meet at the Greenwich Village campus of The New
School. Courses and most Writer’s Life Colloquium
events are conveniently scheduled in the evenings. At this
time, part-time study is not an option.
Transfer Credits
Due to the integral nature of the curriculum, transfer
credits are not accepted.
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