The MFA in Creative Writing is a two-year low residency program designed for serious, independent writers seeking advanced instruction in fiction, young adult fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and environmental writing in fiction, nonfiction, or poetry through a non-traditional course of graduate study. The program’s emphasis on the mastery and understanding of writing skills and contemporary literature and craft through the master-writer and apprentice mentoring relationship, offers students a stimulating and individually tailored curriculum of courses and projects.
The degree requires 48 hours of graduate credit completed during four 9-day residencies at Converse University, offered twice annually (summer and in January), four mentoring semesters, a fifth graduating residency, the completion of a substantive analytical project on literature or craft, and a book-length creative thesis and oral defense.