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Literary Journals Associated With MFA Programs
by Staff
If, as part of your graduate experience, you’re interested in contributing your time or writing to a school-sponsored journal, check out this listing of institutions whose MFA programs produce literary magazines.
Advice From the Programs
by Staff
September/October 2011
Directors, coordinators, and professors of full- and low-residency MFA programs offer some advice for prospective students trying to decide which programs are right for them.
2012 MFA Rankings: The Top Fifty
by Staff
September/October 2011
The nation’s top fifty MFA programs based on popularity, funding, selectivity, fellowship-placement statistics, job-placement statistics, and student-faculty ratios, plus a look at other important program features, such as size, duration, cost of living, and foreign-language requirements.
The 2012 Rankings of Graduate Programs in Creative Writing: Frequently Asked Questions
by Staff
September/October 2011
Answers to the most commonly asked questions about our rankings of full-residency, low-residency, and doctoral programs in creative writing.
2012 MFA Rankings: Twenty-Five Honorable Mentions
by Staff
September/October 2011
An additional twenty-five MFA programs in our annual rankings, from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, to San Diego State University in California.
MFA Nation
by Staff
September/October 2011
We’ve compiled this annual guide to graduate creative writing programs—which includes our rankings of the top full- and low-residency MFA programs (with honorable mentions) and, new to this year, doctoral programs—to provide a spark for the deep thinking and serious consideration that the process of choosing a program requires.
2012 MFA Rankings: The Methodology
by Seth Abramson
September/October 2011
Attorney, poet, editor, and freelance journalist Seth Abramson explains the methodology used to compile the Poets & Writers Magazine 2012 rankings of postgraduate creative writing programs.
Writers’ Workshop at Seventy-Five
by Jeff Martin
July/August 2011
In early June the Iowa Writers’ Workshop celebrated its seventy-fifth anniversary with a reunion of faculty and alumni that brought together some of the most recognized names in literature today.
Q&A: Legendre Starts New MA in U.K.
by Jean Hartig
September/October 2010
American novelist Thomas Legendre, who has worked with British poet Matthew Welton to develop a new creative writing program at the University of Nottingham, speaks about what makes study in England unique and what writers can gain from attending the new graduate program.
2011 MFA Rankings: The Top Fifty
by Seth Abramson
September/October 2010
A combination of hard data from programs that release funding and admissions figures to the public and a vital survey of what the individuals comprising the next generation of U.S. poets and writers have to say about their own priorities in choosing a postgraduate program, here is a ranking of the nation's top fifty MFA programs.