Hollins College MFA in Creative Writing
Program Description
Hollins University in Roanoke, Va., offers a small, intensive M.F.A. program in creative writing. The two dozen graduate students work closely with each other, with our undergraduate writers, and with a faculty of established writers such as T.J. Anderson III, R.H.W. Dillard, Cathryn Hankla, Jeanne Larsen, and Eric Trethewey. Each student develops a way of seeing and saying that is distinctively his or her own, without the imposition of a “house” style. Writers who have studied at Hollins include Pulitzer Prize winners Natasha Trethewey and Annie Dillard, Kiran Desai (winner of both the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction), Wyn Cooper, Tama Janowitz, Lee Smith, and Madison Smartt Bell. Forty-eight credits in residence are required for the M.F.A. degree. Each student will undertake ten four-credit courses, plus a thesis (eight credits).
Application forms and further information may be requested from: The Graduate Center, Hollins University, P.O. Box 9603, Roanoke, VA 24020-1603. Phone: (540) 362-6575.
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Web site: http://www.hollins.edu/grad/eng_writing
Application forms and further information may be requested from: The Graduate Center, Hollins University, P.O. Box 9603, Roanoke, VA 24020-1603. Phone: (540) 362-6575.
E-mail:
Web site: http://www.hollins.edu/grad/eng_writing
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Though no one can teach you vision, Hollins can teach you re-vision.
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Admissions
Full-time: Yes
Part-time: No
Length of Program: 2 Years
Low Residency: No
Student Body
Genre
General Creative Writing
