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Augsburg University [1]

MFA
Minneapolis
MN
United States
Genre: 
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-Genre
Application Fee: 
0
Affiliated Publications/Publishers: 

Howling Bird Press [2], which administers its annual National Book Prize.

Students enrolled in the publishing concentration work as editors of a literary press that publishes a book-length collection of prose or poetry each year.

Residency: 
Low
Duration: 
2 Years
Incoming Class Size: 
15
Application Deadline: 
January 1, 2099
Core Faculty Includes: 

Poetry: Michael Kleber-Diggs
Fiction: Stephan Eirik Clark, Lindsay Starck
Nonfiction: Anika Fajardo 
Playwriting: Carson Kreitzer, TyLie Shider, Sarah Myers
Screenwriting: Stephan Eirik Clark, Andy Froemke

Website: 
http://www.augsburg.edu/mfa [3]
Funding/Employment Opportunities: 

The program offers partial funding.

Other Features: 

Students attend one seven-day residency each July. 

The program also offers course-work in screenwriting, as well as concentrations in teaching practice and theory, and publishing.

Admissions are accepted on a rolling basis; the priority deadline is February 1.

Rolling Admissions
Contact E-mail: 
starckl@augsburg.edu [4]
Contact Name: 
Lindsay Stark

Source URL:https://www.pw.org/mfa/augsburg_university

Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/mfa/augsburg_university [2] https://www.pw.org/small_presses/howling_bird_press [3] http://www.augsburg.edu/mfa [4] mailto:starckl@augsburg.edu