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		Welcome to GCSU’s Creative Writing Program in Milledgeville, Georgia. We offer the Master of Fine Arts graduate degree and also the Bachelor of Arts in English with a Concentration in Creative Writing.
	Tayari Jones	Every year, about ten visiting writers come to campus, including in 2005-2006, novelist Tayari Jones, poet Christian Wiman (editor of Poetry magazine), creative nonfiction author Patricia Foster, and many others. Over the years, our visiting writers program has featured such authors as Kim Addonizio, Robert Olen Butler, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Billy Collins, Alice Fulton, Ernest Gaines, Donald Hall, Tina Howe, Li-Young Lee, Maxine Kumin, Frances Mayes, Antonya Nelson, Marilyn Nelson, Heather Sellers, Charles Simic, Miller Williams, and many others.
	Miller Oberman	Our award-winning graduate and undergraduate students participate in many programs both on campus and off-campus: Coffee House readings, workshops with visiting writers, working on national journals Arts & Letters and the Flannery O’Connor Review, editing the undergraduate art & literary magazine The Peacock’s Feet, and much more. Our students have published their work in national literary journals and won several awards. Recently, Miller Oberman (MFA 2006) received the Ruth Lily Award from the Poetry Foundation.
		Georgia College & State University, located in historic Milledgeville about 90 miles southeast of Atlanta, is Georgia’s Public Liberal Arts University. Milledgeville is home to celebrated author Flannery O’Connor, where she lived, attended college, and wrote most of her published fiction at the family farm Andalusia. The town is also the former capital of Georgia, home to many historic buildings including the Old Governor’s Mansion on campus and the Old State Capitol at Georgia Military College. Most of our students live near campus in houses converted into apartments.

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Creative Writing Program Campus Box 44 Georgia College & State University Milledgeville, GA 31061 English Office: (478) 445-4581 MFA Office: (478) 445-3509