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Converse College MFA in Creative Writing

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The MFA in Creative Writing is a two-year low residency program designed for serious, independent writers seeking advanced instruction in fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction through a non-traditional course of graduate study. The program’s emphasis on the mastery and understanding of writing skills and contemporary literature and craft through the master-writer and apprentice mentoring relationship, offers students a stimulating and individually tailored curriculum of courses and projects.

The degree requires 48 hours of graduate credit completed during four 9-day residencies at Converse College, offered twice annually (summer and in January), four mentoring semesters, a fifth graduating residency, the completion of a substantive analytical project on literature or craft, and a book-length creative thesis and oral defense.

Please visit us at http://www.converse.edu/mfa/ or contact us directly for further information.

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Converse MFA faculty and leadership make the program an excellent choice.

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There are a lot of reasons to choose Converse's MFA Program: flexibility and affordability are a couple. But the greatest…

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Martha Miller | '2011

Converse College's MFA in Creative Writing -- a five star program.

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The Converse College MFA in Creative Writing provides emerging writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry the opportunity to work with…

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Jeffrey R. Schrecongost | '2012

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Spartanburg, South Carolina
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Fiction
Poetry
Creative Non-fiction