The MFA Creative Writing Program at the University of Alabama is now accepting applications!
The University of Alabama MFA is a unique program that values providing students with opportunities to write widely (Students write traditionally as well as in the veins of speculative/science fiction and digital/multimedia poetry) and build professional experience. They provide students with a fully-funded assistantship for up to four years of coursework at the main campus in historic Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Furthermore, their program often allows students to pursue a dual degree, as many have in book arts, TESOL, journalism, and gender and race studies, to name a few.
Not only will students learn from a variety of colleagues from across America and around the World, but they’ll do so with the opportunity to build out their teaching, editing, administrative, and community service portfolio. The assistantship that UA’s MFA allows for students to teach up to intermediate-level creative writing classes, to lead the nation’s oldest continuously-run graduate literary magazine Black Warrior Review, to participate in a variety of institutional administrative roles, and to serve incarcerated writers as an instructor in the Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project.
Some of our veteran professors have even said, “If you’re still writing 10 years after you graduate from this program, we’ve done our job well.” Graduates from Alabama’s MFA have recently won Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships, Whiting Awards and NEA Fellowships, and other awards.
PD Edgar, the Assistant to the Director of the MFA Program, is available to communicate personally with students who may have any questions and/or are interested in applying.
Submit your application at https://cw.english.ua.edu/mfa-admissions/.
Contact PD Edgar at pdedgar1@crimson.ua.edu or design.bwr@gmail.com.