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A Good MFA Program is Hard to Find
The three-year Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program offers workshops with award-winning faculty writers in fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction and memoir, and scriptwriting, and students may write the thesis in three of the genres: fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. We can no longer offer scriptwriting as a thesis genre, but students may take scriptwriting for their second genre work.
Unlike some other MFA programs, we not only encourage students to work in other genres, we require our students to take one or two workshops in at least one genre other than their thesis genre. In addition, students take creative writing seminars in Poetry & Poetics or Prose Forms, Teaching Creative Writing, Theories of Composition and Literature, as well as non-creative writing classes in literature and other related courses.
Most students accepted to our program receive graduate assistantships. Students on assistantship teach, work as consultants in the university Writing Center, assist with the department’s journals, Arts & Letters and the Flannery O’Connor Review, and perform other professional duties.
We are also the only MFA program in the country that offers creative writing assistantships to Peace Corps Fellows who have returned from their volunteer assignments.
The Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing follows in the legacy of Georgia College's most famous alumna, Flannery O'Connor. Find out why Creative Writing @ Georgia College was named A Program of Distinction at GC.
What's Happening in Our Program
| | Prose writers David Rocklin and Neela Vaswani and poet Albert Goldbarth are scheduled to participate in the 2011-2012 Visiting Writers Series. To learn more about writers coming to GCSU, please visit see our Visiting Writers page. |
| | The inaugeral issue of Arts & Letters PRIME, the epub edition of Arts & Letters literary journal, is due out November 2011. |
| | Poet-in-residence Alice Friman is the recipient of a 2012 Pushcart Prize. |
| | Creative nonfiction and fiction professor Karen Salyer McElmurray is the recipient of the Berea College Distinguished Alumna Award and a featured writer in the Vivian S. Delbrook Visiting Writers Series at Butler University. Her writing will be anthologized in Family Trouble and Memoirs on the Hazards and Rewards of Revealing Family, University of Michigan Press. |
ABOUT GEORGIA COLLEGE:
Georgia College, the state’s designated Public Liberal Arts University, combines the educational experience expected at esteemed private liberal arts colleges with the affordability of public higher education. Its four colleges – arts and sciences, business, education and health sciences – provide 6,600 undergraduate and graduate students with an exceptional learning environment that extends beyond the classroom, with hands-on involvement with faculty research, community service, residential learning communities, study abroad and myriad internships.
Founded in 1889, Georgia College boasts one of the most beautiful campuses in the nation with Corinthian columns fronting red brick buildings and wide open green spaces. Georgia College also offers graduate education at the historic Jefferson building in downtown Macon, at Robins Air Force Base and online.