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About the Major

Study the genres of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction while developing skills for creative written expression.

Learn how to write well-crafted and compelling works of prose or poetry

Work with faculty in small workshop settings

Learn about contemporary prose or poetry

A Creative Writing degree, which is offered by the Department of English, prepares you for a wide range of occupations! Many grads write for business, industry, and marketing; teach; publish their own creative work; or go on for their MFA.

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Hands-on Learning

As part of your major, you will take numerous workshops to hone your creative writing skills. You can also participate in creative internships at places such as World of Words, Pine Reads Review, Literacy Connects, and KORE Press.

For your major, you will concentrate in poetry, fiction, or nonfiction, or just take a mixture. Sample courses include:

• ENGL 201: Introduction to the Writing of Creative Nonfiction
• ENGL 215: Elements of Craft in Creative Writing
• ENGL 304: Intermediate Fiction Writing
• ENGL 373B: Survey of British and American Literature from 1660 to 1865
• ENGL 380: Literary Analysis
• ENGL 409: Advanced Poetry Writing

You will also take at least four writing workshops, in which you draft, analyze, and revise manuscripts in a small-class setting

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• POG: Poetry in Action A collective of poets, literary critics, and practitioners of other art forms who have joined together in Tucson, Arizona. As a federally-recognized, non-profit organization, POG promotes active appreciation of and engagement with avant-garde artistic work in a variety of media.
• Kore Press Publishes literary and artistic work by by women, including those traditionally underrepresented in the cultural mainstream.
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• Sonora Review One of the oldest student-run literary journals in the country, put together solely by graduate students in the Creative Writing Department at the University of Arizona.

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The THINK TANK Writing Center offers a variety of services that are student-focused, faculty-supporting, and community-serving. Emphasizing peer collaboration, we help each writer grow over the course of their career at the University of Arizona through several styles of consultations, workshops, and events.

The Writing Center offers free consultations by appointment with trained and certified peer tutors. Our tutors offer helpful feedback on any kind of writing at any point in the process—even before there are words on the page. During each session, tutors get acquainted with the student’s writing, answer questions, identify patterns, make recommendations, and help the student come up with a plan for moving forward. Tutors can serve as a second set of eyes on personal statements, application essays, lab reports, theses, dissertations, resumes, creative writing, and even professional emails.

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• Location: Tempe campus
• Second Language Requirement: No

Program Description

Degree Awarded: MFA Creative Writing

The MFA in creative writing at ASU has always been an unswervingly student-first program. Through small classes, intimate workshops and one-to-one mentoring, the centuries-old apprenticeship model thrives within the New American University. Poets and fiction writers work with outstanding faculty who have published more than 80 books and garnered national and international attention through awards and honors that include:

• Guggenheim, Howard Foundation, Lannan Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and United Artists fellowships
• international Griffin Poetry Prize and Whiting Award
• multiple Pulitzer Prizes
• two medals of achievement from the National Society of Arts and Letters
• two Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets
• Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets

Additionally, in concert with the Master of Fine Arts program, several campus entities contribute to the MFA experience: the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing offers students a wide range of fellowships, support for professional development, and other teaching and leadership opportunities including a Community Outreach Graduate Assistantship. The Center for Imagination in the Borderlands brings writers and other artists for intensive workshops, classes and public events, and offers an artistic development and teaching assistant fellowship and two research assistantships. The Master of Fine Arts program also hosts a newly inaugurated series of craft lectures and an alumni reading series.

Furthermore, students have access to a variety of additional professional development opportunities, including serving on the editorial board of an international literary journal Hayden's Ferry Review, translation experience through the Thousand Languages Project and internships with award-winning independent literary press Four Way Books.

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Degree Requirements

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• 48 credit hours including a written comprehensive exam and the required applied project course (ENG 593)

Coursework (39 credit hours)

Other Requirement (6 credit hours) ENG 592 Research (6)

Culminating Experience (3 credit hours) ENG 593 Applied Project (3)

Additional Curriculum Information The creative writing program requires 48 credit hours of study evenly divided between writing courses and literature courses designed to inform that writing.

While students are expected to satisfy these requirements in the genre in which they were accepted, the program encourages cross-genre study, and electives can include courses taken outside of the creative writing program or even outside of the English department.

A written comprehensive exam and an applied project are required.

Admission Requirements

Applicants must fulfill the requirements of both the Graduate College and The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Applicants are eligible to apply to the program if they have earned a bachelor's or master's degree from a regionally accredited institution. Applicants should have an undergraduate major in English or creative writing; however, exceptional students who do not have either of these undergraduate majors may be admitted on the basis of writing excellence.

Applicants must have a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.00 (scale is 4.00 = "A") in the last 60 hours of their first bachelor's degree program, or a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.00 (scale is 4.00 = "A") in an applicable master's degree program.

All applicants must submit:

• graduate admission application and application fee
• official transcripts
• statement of purpose
• resume or curriculum vitae
• three letters of recommendation
• creative manuscript
• statement of teaching philosophy
• academic writing sample
• proof of English proficiency

Additional Application Information An applicant whose native language is not English (regardless of current residency) and has not graduated from an institution of higher learning in the United States must provide proof of English proficiency . Applications will not be processed without valid proof of English proficiency. Please note that official scores must be sent to ASU in order for the application to be processed.

The personal statement should include the applicant's writing background, intended area of specialization and a brief self-evaluation of recent work (double-spaced, up to three pages or 750 words). The creative manuscript should be up to 20 pages of poetry or up to 30 pages of prose (prose should be double-spaced). Students applying for a teaching assistantship must submit a statement of teaching philosophy and an academic writing sample.

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• Analyze and critique the writing of other creative writers.
• Explicate their creative works articulately.
• Create original fiction or poetry that incorporates theoretical and foundational literary knowledge.

Career Opportunities

A Master of Fine Arts in creative writing graduate is prepared primarily for the professional creation of new art, including fiction, poetry and other written forms. In addition to working as novelists, poets and short story writers, graduates go on to careers in education, arts administration, media and entertainment, and in political and community organizations. Career examples include:

• book designer or marketer
• book or magazine editor
• creative writing professor
• essayist or journalist
• grant writer and developer
• literary or events coordinator
• nonprofit administrator
• public relations and communications manager
• screenwriter
• secondary education teacher

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With over 250 programs in more than 65 countries (ranging from one week to one year), study abroad is possible for all ASU students wishing to gain global skills and knowledge in preparation for a 21st-century career. Students earn ASU credit for completed courses, while staying on track for graduation, and may apply financial aid and scholarships toward program costs. https://mystudyabroad.asu.edu

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The program offers full funding with tuition, health insurance, and a stipend through assistantships teaching first-year writing and creative writing.

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The program houses three reading series: The Distinguished Visitor Series, Works in Progress (WIP), and Infuse. A weekly colloquium for MFA students brings in alumni, agents, editors for conversation and mentorship. Other features include a wide variety of literary internships, research and travel grants, and opportunities at the internationally renowned University of Arizona Poetry Center.

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ASU's creative writing program, distinguished by an outstanding faculty whose works have received major national and international recognition, is consistently ranked among top-tier programs in poetry and fiction. The program's curricular strengths, community outreach and close mentorship combine to advance pragmatic, effective outcomes for students, graduates and artist-citizens.

The MFA in creative writing at ASU has always been an unswervingly student-first program. Through small classes, intimate workshops and one-to-one mentoring, the centuries-old apprenticeship model thrives within the New American University. Poets and fiction writers work with outstanding faculty who have published more than 80 books and garnered national and international attention through awards and honors that include:

• Guggenheim, Howard Foundation, Lannan Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and United Artists fellowships
• international Griffin Poetry Prize and Whiting Award
• multiple Pulitzer Prizes
• two medals of achievement from the National Society of Arts and Letters
• two Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets
• Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets

Additionally, in concert with the Master of Fine Arts program, several campus entities contribute to the MFA experience: the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing offers students a wide range of fellowships, support for professional development, and other teaching and leadership opportunities including a Community Outreach Graduate Assistantship. The Center for Imagination in the Borderlands brings writers and other artists for intensive workshops, classes and public events, and offers an artistic development and teaching assistant fellowship and two research assistantships. The Master of Fine Arts program also hosts a newly inaugurated series of craft lectures and an alumni reading series.

Furthermore, students have access to a variety of additional professional development opportunities, including serving on the editorial board of an international literary journal Hayden's Ferry Review, translation experience through the Thousand Languages Project and internships with award-winning independent literary press Four Way Books.

• College/school: The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
• Location: Tempe
• STEM-OPT extension eligible: No

48 credit hours including a written comprehensive exam and the required applied project course (ENG 593)

Coursework (39 credit hours)

Other Requirement (6 credit hours) ENG 592 Research (6)

Culminating Experience (3 credit hours) ENG 593 Applied Project (3)

Additional Curriculum Information The creative writing program requires 48 credit hours of study evenly divided between writing courses and literature courses designed to inform that writing.

While students are expected to satisfy these requirements in the genre in which they were accepted, the program encourages cross-genre study, and electives can include courses taken outside of the creative writing program or even outside of the English department.

A written comprehensive exam and an applied project are required.

Applicants must fulfill the requirements of both the Graduate College and The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Applicants are eligible to apply to the program if they have earned a bachelor's or master's degree from a regionally accredited institution. Applicants should have an undergraduate major in English or creative writing; however, exceptional students who do not have either of these undergraduate majors may be admitted on the basis of writing excellence.

Applicants must have a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.00 (scale is 4.00 = "A") in the last 60 hours of their first bachelor's degree program, or a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.00 (scale is 4.00 = "A") in an applicable master's degree program.

All applicants must submit:

• graduate admission application and application fee
• official transcripts
• statement of purpose
• resume or curriculum vitae
• three letters of recommendation
• creative manuscript
• statement of teaching philosophy
• academic writing sample
• proof of English proficiency

Additional Application Information An applicant whose native language is not English (regardless of current residency) and has not graduated from an institution of higher learning in the United States must provide proof of English proficiency . Applications will not be processed without valid proof of English proficiency. Please note that official scores must be sent to ASU in order for the application to be processed.

The personal statement should include the applicant's writing background, intended area of specialization and a brief self-evaluation of recent work (double-spaced, up to three pages or 750 words). The creative manuscript should be up to 20 pages of poetry or up to 30 pages of prose (prose should be double-spaced). Students applying for a teaching assistantship must submit a statement of teaching philosophy and an academic writing sample.

Program learning outcomes identify what a student will learn or be able to do upon completion of their program. This program has the following program outcomes:

• Create original fiction or poetry that incorporates theoretical and foundational literary knowledge.
• Explicate their creative works articulately.
• Analyze and critique the writing of other creative writers.

A Master of Fine Arts in creative writing graduate is prepared primarily for the professional creation of new art, including fiction, poetry and other written forms. In addition to working as novelists, poets and short story writers, graduates go on to careers in education, arts administration, media and entertainment, and in political and community organizations. Career examples include:

• book designer or marketer
• book or magazine editor
• creative writing professor
• essayist or journalist
• grant writer and developer
• literary or events coordinator
• nonprofit administrator
• public relations and communications manager
• screenwriter
• secondary education teacher

Department of English | RBHL 152 [email protected] 480-727-9130 Admission deadlines

COH Outstanding GAT: Ramón César Mendez

Ramón César Mendez, a Ph.D. candidate and instructor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, is the College of Humanities 2023 Outstanding GAT Award recipient.

As an instructor, Mendez has taught in the Basic Language Program, the Heritage Language Program, the Online Program, as well as self-designed, upper-division literature courses.

“His research, teaching, and interests show great potential and leadership skills in articulating community through literature and critical activity,” wrote Associate Professor Monica Morales in nominating Mendez for the award.

“César's teaching exemplifies the power of the humanities to illuminate the connections across disciplines and the beauty to be found in different modes of knowledge production. Through his tireless support and mentorship of his students, César has made an outstanding impact on the undergraduates of the College of Humanities,” wrote Associate Professor Faith Harden, the department’s Director of Graduate Studies.

A former student wrote that “His mentorship has had a profound impact on my life, and I feel incredibly grateful for the opportunity to learn from him. I will always cherish the knowledge, skills, and values that he has imparted to me, and I know that they will continue to serve me well as I move forward in my academic and professional endeavors.”

Mendez was the co-founder and co-organizer of the Latin Americanist Working Group, organizing a series of public lectures by Latin American scholars with the purpose of connecting graduate students and faculty in the discipline through research, literary analysis and critical dialogue.

In Spring 2022, Mendez was awarded the Confluence Center for Creative Inquiry’s Border Lab Graduate Fellowship to create and facilitate a bilingual community writing project centering on the experience of border-dwelling. Building on that project, he then organized a bilingual poetry workshop for an interdisciplinary group of undergraduate students the following semester.

“To say that César has inspired many would be an understatement,” wrote a group of fellow graduate students. “From an early point, the curiosity and compassion with which he interacts with his fellow graduates provokes thoughtful conversations, insightful revelations and, often, profound connections. Over the course of his time in the program, in addition to his own extensive teaching experience and his admirable academic commitments, César has graciously offered his time and energy to provide advice, exchange ideas, or simply to share his literary and theoretical interests with others.”

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