Iowa State University MFA Program in Creative Writing and Environment
Program Description
A three-year writing program that explores the inherent connections between the human story and the imprint of place and the natural world on the literary works we create.
Iowa State University's three-year MFA Program in Creative Writing and Environment emphasizes creative writing—poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and drama—that encourages writers to identify and explore in their stories and lyric impressions the complex influences of place, the natural world, and the environmental imagination.
The human story finds its structure in geology and geography, in biology and chemistry—both natural and constructed—and in the complex and rapidly-changing cultural and natural landscape. With more people sharing our planet’s finite space, and with our planet and its systems imperiled, an educated attention to place in the broadest sense of the term is vital.
Through a program of study that includes a rigorous combination of creative writing workshops, literature coursework, fieldwork experience, cross-disciplinary study in disciplines other than English, and intensive one-on-one work with a major professor, our MFA program offers gifted writers an original and intensive opportunity to document, meditate on, mourn, and celebrate the complexities of our transforming natural world.
Iowa State University's three-year MFA Program in Creative Writing and Environment emphasizes creative writing—poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and drama—that encourages writers to identify and explore in their stories and lyric impressions the complex influences of place, the natural world, and the environmental imagination.
The human story finds its structure in geology and geography, in biology and chemistry—both natural and constructed—and in the complex and rapidly-changing cultural and natural landscape. With more people sharing our planet’s finite space, and with our planet and its systems imperiled, an educated attention to place in the broadest sense of the term is vital.
Through a program of study that includes a rigorous combination of creative writing workshops, literature coursework, fieldwork experience, cross-disciplinary study in disciplines other than English, and intensive one-on-one work with a major professor, our MFA program offers gifted writers an original and intensive opportunity to document, meditate on, mourn, and celebrate the complexities of our transforming natural world.
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Admissions
Full-time: Yes
Part-time: No
Length of Program: 3 Years
Low Residency: No
Student Body
Genre
Fiction
Poetry
Creative Non-fiction
Dramatic Writing
