The Insider's Guide to Graduate Degrees in Creative Writing

by Seth Abramson

There are so many different graduate creative writing programs out there! How do I find the right one for me?

Bringing together data from both Master's and doctoral creative writing programs and interviews with program applicants, students, and faculty, this is a complete practical guide to choosing a graduate creative writing program and putting together a successful application.

The Insider's Guide to Graduate Degrees in Creative Writing answers frequently asked questions on such topics

· Application prerequisites
· Program sizes and durations
· Funding
· Acceptance rates
· Cost of living
· Program curricula and demographics
· Workshopping techniques
· Student-faculty ratios
· Residency options
· Postgraduate fellowship placement
· Postgraduate job placement
· Programs' reputations and histories

The book also includes comprehensive and up-to-date hard data on the hundreds of terminal-degree graduate creative writing programs available throughout the US, UK, and internationally, making this an essential read for anyone planning to pursue a low- or full-residency graduate creative writing degree.

328 pages, Hardcover

First published June 14, 2018

About the author

Seth Abramson is author of The Suburban Ecstasies (Ghost Road Press, 2009) and a contributing author to The Creative Writing MFA Handbook (Continuum, 2008). In 2008 he was awarded the J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize by Poetry. His poems and prose have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Best New Poets 2008, Poetry, American Poetry Review, AGNI, Poets & Writers, and New American Writing. A graduate of Harvard Law School and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he is currently a doctoral student in English Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.