Lenoir-Rhyne University

Students in the Thomas Wolfe MFA Program for Creative Writing cultivate and develop skills to maintain well-being through mindful drafting and revision. Discover the difference between “cut-throat” and “appreciative” workshops and experience how the latter opens depth and meaning in writing and living the creative life with strategic wisdom, professional confidence, and creative wonder in every situation on the page and off. From horror to humor, elegy to immersion, encounter your most creative self in small classes that close at the end of term with genuine bittersweetness for all the joy we find. Faculty coach students in technique, wildness, imagination, and publishing and professional pathways 

We seek writers seeking community as well as craft. Our Zoom class sessions feature time to read, share, reflect, and co-construct meaning and skill. Optional student-led Saturday Morning Creativity Sessions provide informal community encouragement and pure play. Students who recognize the healing aspect of our gifts can deepen their knowledge of the “cutting edge” research and practice of Narrative Medicine, Storytelling, Expressive Writing, and Poetic Medicine in the Narrative Healthcare Certificate Program within or separate from the MFA. It is extremely important to us that students graduate with their own voices more fully developed, rather than imprinted with those of their teachers. Because of this, every class is an opportunity to discover as well as learn. We are doing something new here, and we want you to be a part of it.