Department of Creative Writing and Literary Arts

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Department of Creative Writing and Literary Arts
 

MFA in Creative Writing low-residency program

 

MFA Offered in Poetry, Fiction, or Literary Nonfiction

 

BRIEF OVERVIEW of UAA's Low-Residency Program:

At the heart of this innovative program lies the literary connection of writers and place.  No matter how diverse such connections, the North’s boundless terrain allows writers to locate their own place in the world.  Explore the landscape of memory, family, and culture.  Take your imagination from the local to the global.  Reach from the personal to the communal. 

The MFA is a 45-degree credit program culminating in a book-length thesis of creative work.  Our three-year degree offers studies in fiction, poetry, and literary nonfiction.  Students learn the mastery of craft and read widely in the classical tradition while exploring the evolution of their genre.

 

 

Summer Author Readings, Northern Renaissance Arts & Sciences Series

Past keynote speakers appearing at UAA's Low-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing have included:  Richard Rodriguez, essayist/literary journalist (2011); Kim Addonizio, poet (2010); John Keeble, fiction writer (2009); and Ron Carlson, fiction writer, (2008).

Click here to listen to podcasts of the July 2011 and July 2010 Northern Renaissance Arts & Science Reading series..

For the complete author readings schedule from 2009, including detailed biographies of the writers who appeared during July 2009, click here.

 

 

 
 

We all know that the power of a great poem is not that we felt that person expressed himself well.  We don't think that.  What we think is "How deeply I am touched."  That's our level of response.  And so a great poet does not express his or her self; he expresses all of our selves. ~Gary Snyder