Columbia University School of the Arts

MFA Program

Location:

New York, New York

Genres Include:

Poetry, Fiction, and Creative Nonfiction

Residency:

Full

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Application Deadline:

January 2, 2013

Application Fee:

$110

Website:

arts.columbia.edu/writing

E-mail address:

writing@columbia.edu

Contact:

Clarence Coo, Program Administrator

Core Faculty Includes:

Donald Antrim, Lucy Brock-Broido, Nicholas Christopher, Sonya Chung, Stacey D'Erasmo, Timothy Donnelly, Deborah Eisenberg, Richard Ford, Lis Harris, Richard Howard, Margo Jefferson, Binnie Kirshenbaum (Chair), Victor Lavalle, Sam Lipsyte, Phillip Lopate, Ben Marcus, Patricia O’Toole, Orhan Pamuk, Oliver Sacks, Simon Schama, Gary Shteyngart, Mark Strand, Alan Ziegler

Funding/Employment Opportunities:

Fellowships and scholarships; teaching fellowships; research assistantships; internships at magazines and literary publications (the New Yorker, Granta) and at literary organizations (PEN American Center and the Academy of American Poets); training and teaching opportunities on and off campus through Columbia Artists and Teachers; an annual mixer event in New York with literary agents for alumni and students who have finished their coursework and have a book ready

Affiliated Publications:

Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, Word for Word

Other Features:

Visiting writers speaking on the craft of writing in the Creative Writing Lecture Series; student readings such as Gallery; the KGB Faculty Selects reading series featuring the work of alumni; special master classes; the Nonfiction Dialogues series--interviews with distinguished writers about their work and careers; a thriving School of the Arts community at Columbia comprised of talented students and faculty across writing, visual arts, theatre arts and film.

Graduates:

Jonathan Ames, Mary Jo Bang, Thomas Beller, Lucie Brock-Broido, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Henri Cole, Meghan Daum, Kiran Desai, Stephen Dubner, Peter Farrelly, Rivka Galchen, Philip Gourevitch, Eliza Griswold, John Haskell, Marie Howe, Heidi Julavits, Ben Kunkel, Victor LaValle, Adam Mansbach, Dinaw Mengestu, Stephen McCauley, Rick Moody, Richard Price, Camille Rankine, Karen Russell, Mona Simpson, Wells Tower.

Columbia University School of the Arts

MFA Program

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