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Nick Swetye (MFA 2006)
and Traci Burns (MFA 2005) at the AWP Conference in Would you like to learn
more about our program from our students?
Send an email to mfa@gcsu.edu |
Who we are… Our students
come from all over the country and have previously attended such colleges and
universities as Austin Peay, Berry College, Bucknell University, Central
Washington University, East Carolina University, Florida State, Hiram College
(Ohio), Mercer University, Middlebury College (Vermont), Mississippi State
University, Northern Michigan University, Sarah Lawrence College, Tulane
University, UNC-Charlotte, University of Wisconsin, Wake Forest, Washington
University (St. Louis), and many more.
Most of our students range in age from their twenties to their
forties, some completing other graduate degrees before joining our program. |
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Read some of our students’ recent
published and award-winning writing. |
Writers who publish… Although we
don’t expect incoming students to have published their work, since our
program began in 2001, our students have been publishing their poems,
stories, and essays in many national journals. While she was a student in our program
Minal Singh (MFA 2003) was selected for the Ploughshares “Emerging Writers Issue” (winter 2003-2004) for her
poem “Hunger Was Coming.”
Other GCSU students have published in such journals as Backwards City Review, Bloom, Cimarron
Review, Colorado Review, Crazyhorse, Cream City Review, Dos Passos Review,
Eclipse, International Poetry Review, Meridian, Poet Lore, Quick Fiction,
Rattle, Redivider, River Teeth, Salt Hill, Santa Clara Review, Spinning
Jenny, Thema, Touchstone, and others.
Read our students’ recently
published work. |
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Minal Singh (MFA 2003),
Sara Pirkle Hughes (MFA 2004) and Scott Hughes (MFA 2004) in
Faculty and students
at the AWP conference in Vancouver: David Muschell (faculty), John Baum (MFA
2005), Kelly Lundy (MFA 2005), Ruth Knafo Setton (former Arts & Letters fiction editor), Amy Zipperer (MFA 2004), and
Martin Lammon (MFA Program Coordinator). |
A Community… One of the
highlights of our community of writers is the annual Association of Writers
and Writing Programs (AWP) national conference. MFA students have attended conferences in On campus,
students gather for social events (sometimes they even plan “submission”
parties, helping each other prepare manuscripts they submit to literary
journals). Students also sponsor the
Red Earth Reading series, a coffee house event featuring both MFA and senior
level undergraduate writers. Students
also meet and work with many visiting
writers (usually about 10 or so visit campus each year). Learn
more about Special Programs for our students. |
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Miller Oberman won a
2005 Ruth Lilly Fellowship (photo by Tim Vacula)
Amy Zipperer (2004),
Rachael Pridgeon (2004), and Gwendolyn Turnbull (2005) reunite at AWP in |
Recent Accomplishments… Creative
Writing students at GCSU have won national AWP Intro Awards and, in 2005, MFA
candidate Miller Oberman
(MFA 2006) was awarded a $15,000 Ruth
Lilly Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine. Recently, Rachael Pridgeon (MFA 2004) was
selected for the Ph.D. program at |
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One of only 20 member
colleges nationwide |
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Office: (478) 445-3509 |
