School of the Art Institute of Chicago MFA in Writing
Program Description
Our two-year program both questions typical genre distinctions and nurtures traditional writing approaches. Students, not accepted by genre nor asked to “declare” one, work in any combination of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, playwriting or screenwriting, while also investigating text off the page, book arts, and new or hybrid forms. Enhancing that practice is interdisciplinary exchange with students and faculty from studio areas of the School.
Tutorials anchor our curriculum, with students choosing each semester from the graduate faculty at large one or two members to act as stewards of their development. For over a decade this anchor has freed students and faculty to innovate pedagogically in the workshop and seminar curricular frameworks. It allows students to pursue elective work in any area of the School.
In extra-curricular activity, too, students are freed from self-assertion or self-protection common in workshop-based communities to adapt practices of studio artist peers. They form collectives, small presses, storefront galleries and theater groups, creating independent arts organizations and venues that outlast their tenure at the School and revitalize Chicago’s literary scene.
Tutorials anchor our curriculum, with students choosing each semester from the graduate faculty at large one or two members to act as stewards of their development. For over a decade this anchor has freed students and faculty to innovate pedagogically in the workshop and seminar curricular frameworks. It allows students to pursue elective work in any area of the School.
In extra-curricular activity, too, students are freed from self-assertion or self-protection common in workshop-based communities to adapt practices of studio artist peers. They form collectives, small presses, storefront galleries and theater groups, creating independent arts organizations and venues that outlast their tenure at the School and revitalize Chicago’s literary scene.
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Admissions
Full-time: Yes
Part-time: Yes
Length of Program: 3 Years
Low Residency: No
Student Body
Genre
Fiction
Poetry
