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The Creative Writing MFA Handbook: A Guide for Prospective Graduate Students
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The Creative Writing MFA Handbook: A Guide for Prospective Graduate Students Hardback - 2006 - 1st Edition

by Tom Kealey

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From the publisher

The Creative Writing MFA Handbook guides prospective graduate students through the difficult process of researching, applying to, and choosing graduate schools in creative writing. The handbook includes profiles of fifty creative writing programs, guidance through the application process, advice from current students and professors including George Saunders, Aimee Bender, Tracy K. Smith, and Geoffrey Wolff, and the most comprehensive listings of graduate writing programs in and outside the United States. The handbook also includes special sections about Low-Residency writing programs, Ph.D. programs, publishing in literary journals, and workshop and teaching advice.
In a remarkably concise, user-friendly fashion, The Creative Writing MFA Handbook answers as many questions as possible, and is packed with information, advice, and experience.

Details

  • Title The Creative Writing MFA Handbook: A Guide for Prospective Graduate Students
  • Author Tom Kealey
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 214
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Continuum
  • Publication date 2006-01
  • ISBN 9780826418432 / 0826418430
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.9 in (19.81 x 12.95 x 2.29 cm)
  • Category Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy
  • Library of Congress subjects Creative writing (Higher education) - United, Graduate students - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2005025228
  • Dewey Decimal Code 808.042

About the author

Tom Kealey graduated from the MFA Creative Writing program at the University of Massachusetts in 2001, and afterwards he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in fiction at Stanford University. He currently teaches at Stanford. He has been in many, many writing workshops, both as a student and as a teacher. At the University of Massachusetts he was the recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award. You can read more about Kealey on his blog: http: //creative-writing-mfa-handbook.blogspot.co

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