Tuesday, January 30, 2007
2008?
92) HUNTER COLLEGE at the CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
Program name: MFA in Creative Writing
Subject areas: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction (Memoir or Biography), Poetry
Faculty: Peter Carey, Louise DeSalvo, Eva Hoffman, Tom Sleigh, Donna Masini, Jan Heller Levi, Meena Alexander, Jenefer Shute, Colum McCann, Colson Whitehead, Andrew Sean Greer, Elena Georgiou
Length: 2 years
Tuition per year: Easier to go by semester. Tuition is $3,200 per semester for residents, so the degree would be $12,800 in all. For non-residents, the tuition is by credit at $520 per credit; the degree is 36 credits and should cost $18,720 in all.
Application materials: Submit all materials to Office of Graduate Admissions: Graduate Application, $125 application fee, 2 recommendations, GRE scores, transcript, personal statement (about yourself, why you write, and why you wish to come to Hunter; replaces statement of purpose in Graduate Application), writing sample; for creative nonfiction students, proposal for biography/memoir to write during program; interviews will be offered to waitlisted students
Deadline: 1 Feb. (fall); no spring admissions
Financial Aid: Every semester, 5 Hertog Fellows (Fiction and Memoir students) are paired with a celebrated writer to work 10 hours a week as a research assistant; stipend is $5 K. Every semester, 5 Norma Lubetsky Friedman Scholars (Poetry students) work 10 hours a week with an established poet; stipend is also $5 K. 2nd-semester students can apply to teach Introduction to Creative Writing in the 3rd semester. Also, each year 2 MFA students are selected as Holtzbrinck Fellows, and are paid $10 K to work a 20-hour week for the academic year with the publishing imprints of Holtzbrink (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Henry Holt, St. Martins Press, and Picador).
Web address: http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/creativewriting
93) THE NEW SCHOOL
Program name: MFA in Creative Writing
Subject areas: Fiction, Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, Writing for Children
Faculty: Robert Polito, Jeffrey Renard Allen, Jonathan Ames, Susan Bell, Mark Bibbins, Susan Cheever, Jonathan Dee, Elaine Equi, David Gates, Vivian Gornick, Shelley Jackson, Zia Jaffrey, Joyce Johnson, Hettie Jones, James Lasdun, David Lehman, Suzannah Lessard, Philip Lopate, Honor Moore, Maggie Nelson, Sigrid Nunez, Dale Peck, Liam Rector, Francine Prose, Helen Schulman, Tor Seidler, Dani Shapiro, Prageeta Sharma, Laurie Sheck, Darcey Steinke, Benjamin Taylor, Abigail Thomas, Paul Violi, Sarah Weeks, Susan Wheeler, Stephen Wright
Length: 2 years
Tuition per year: Easier to go by semester. Tuition per semester is $9.5 K.
Application materials: Submit all materials to the New School Creative Writing Program: MFA in Creative Writing Application, $50 application fee, 2 recommendations, 2 transcripts, statement of purpose, portfolio, résumé/vitae; GRE not required
Deadline: 15 Jan. (fall); no spring admissions
Financial Aid: The Writing program offers a limited number of scholarships to students who demonstrate financial need (amounts not specified). No teaching or graduate assistantships are mentioned on the program website--just government financial assistance programs, institutional scholarships/awards, and FAFSA.
Web address: http://www.generalstudies.newschool.edu/writing
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Were we not just saying college with out the homework would be the way to go. Afraid you might get a bit of it with those programs, but I say go for it!
Wow!!!!! you mean you don't want to wait until you're 57 to go to grad school?
DOD
I know you'd thrive in that environment !!! MM