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TINGE Magazine, Temple University’s online literary journal, is published one to two times a year.

The journal is edited by the graduate students of Temple’s MFA Program in Creative Writing . We have an open submission policy .

MFA PROGRAM IN CREATIVE WRITING

Temple University offers an MFA degree in Creative Writing, with a focus on either fiction or poetry.

The writing component of the two-year MFA degree features small, intensive workshops in poetry or fiction, supplemented in the second year by one-on-one tutorials with resident faculty.

The curriculum includes special topics classes in creative writing, courses in the craft of fiction and poetry, humanities and arts electives, and a creative thesis in the second year. A series of readings from prominent visiting writers and intensive week-long consultations with writers-in-residence augment the coursework.

A limited number of fellowships and teaching assistantships are available. The deadline for application is December 15 for consideration for teaching assistantships, and February 15 for final admission.

Fiction Faculty: Cara Blue Adam,s, Don Lee, and Liz Moore

Poetry Faculty: Jena Osman and Pattie McCarthy

www.temple.edu/creativewriting

M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing Dept. of English Temple University 1114 W. Berks Rd. Philadelphia, PA 19122 215-204-1796

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Creative Writing - MFA?

So I’m gonna start applying soon and I was looking at the creative writing program since that is what I do want to do for a living: I want to be a fiction/fantasy writer. However, I was wondering, if I could major in it?

I was looking on the website and it was a concentration of English? And CW was in the MFA section, which means masters? I’m really confused, so please bare with me. So does this mean I have to graduate with my BA in English, then go back for more years to apply to MFA in Creative Writing? So confused, please help.

University of Idaho Fully Funded MFA in Creative Writing

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The University of Idaho based in Moscow, ID offers a three-year, three-genre fully funded MFA in creative writing. The MFA programs offer the time and support to train in the traditions, techniques, and practice of nonfiction, poetry, and fiction. Each student graduates as the author of a thesis manuscript of publishable quality after undertaking a rigorous process of thesis preparation and a public defense. All admitted students are fully funded through a teaching assistantship, which comes with a full tuition waiver, and a stipend, which is $14,000 per year. Also offers three scholarships and three outstanding fellowships to support qualified MFA, graduate students.

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Mailing Address: English Department University of Idaho 875 Perimeter Drive MS 1102 Moscow, Idaho 83844-1102

Phone: 208-885-6156

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About the M.F.A. in Creative Writing

Career information is not specific to degree level. Some career options may require an advanced degree.

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• Degree Prep

Our students arrive as accomplished writers and readers, and while many have not yet published their stories, poems and essays, most will do so during their time in the program. An undergraduate English degree is not mandatory — our students come from diverse cultural, geographical, and artistic backgrounds, and at different times in their professional and personal lives. If you’re ready to write, apply now .

• Degree Roadmap

Ours is a three-year program, over the course of which each student works toward assembling a manuscript of publishable quality. In addition to regular workshops in a student's given genre, our program requires 18 credits of literature courses and traditions seminars be completed during the program. Some recent offerings:

• Genre-Crossing
• Women and Poetry
• Geographies of Nonfiction
• The Raptures of Research in Fiction Writing
• Traditions of Lifewriting
• Independence and Inquiry: A Nonfiction Techniques Studio
• Scholarships

The College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences provides annual scholarship awards totaling approximately $1,600,000. For information on specific scholarships, please email  [email protected] .

You can find general need- and merit-based scholarships on the Financial Aid Office's scholarships page.

Teaching Assistantships carry value up to $26,000; other departmental scholarships can supplement this by $2,000 or more annually. 

To learn more about FAFSA deadlines and processes, available scholarships, and financial aid program types and eligibility requirements, please visit the University of Idaho  Financial Aid Office .

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Teaching assistantships are awarded on a competitive basis. The program also offers fellowships for summer workshops and writing retreats.

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Mastering the Art of Creativity

Polish your craft and develop your voice as a professional writer in a program that features intensive theoretical and practical training across genres. Enjoy a supportive learning environment with an award-winning faculty and benefit from opportunities to be published and mentored through the Distinguished Visiting Writers Program.

• Our M.F.A. program is three years. We offer full and equitable funding for all students through Teaching Assistantships and tuition waivers.
• We admit two to four students per genre each year (nine students per cohort, on average). Our program is small by design, ensuring that community and mentorship are central to the experience of our degree candidates.
• All admitted students gain real-world skills through classroom teaching.
• We offer flexible degree paths in Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction, and encourage cross- and multi-genre study or single-genre study, depending on a student’s artist goals.
• Our faculty value student-centered classroom spaces where mentoring, community, and reciprocity are tightly held values. All classes are taught by working writers who have a passion for teaching.
• The Distinguished Visiting Writers Series brings field-leading authors to campus to read from their work, interface with students and the community, and lead MFA seminars.
• Fellowship opportunities include participating in Writing in the Wild at Taylor Ranch in the Frank Church Wilderness Area; University Fellowships at the Centrum Writers Conference; the Hemingway Fellowship for fiction writers; and the Academy of American Poets University Prize.
• Students have the opportunity to serve as editors for our esteemed national literary journal Fugue.
• Over the past three decades, our distinguished alumni have published over 100 books with our country’s finest trade, independent, and university presses. Students and alumni are the lifeblood of our storied MFA program.

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About That Thesis...

What .   Every student in the MFA program in Creative Writing and Literature must complete a thesis that is a publishable, book-length work. The genre may be fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or a script for the visual media. Some students choose to collect a series of related short pieces. The thesis is judged solely on the quality of its intelligence and its writing.

When .   After taking 24 graduate credits and while completing remaining coursework, MFA students can consider registering for thesis. Most students spend two to three semesters preparing and completing the thesis. The program will also schedule workshops on thesis preparation as necessary during the academic year. These FAQ sheets might help you decide if you are ready to begin:

POETS   |   PROSE   |   SCRIPT

This   degree audit form   will help you figure out whether you’ve taken all of the other courses you need to earn the degree.

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This   graduation checkout form , will help you organize the process of completing the SUNY Stony Brook and program requirements for graduation. This form must be completed in order for the program to certify to the Graduate School that the degree requirements have been met.

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This   thesis planning form , which you’ll need to get signed in order to register for thesis, will help you organize your thoughts about what you are writing, and who your advisor and readers will be. Fill it out to the best of your ability before you approach a faculty member to be your advisor.

Thesis credits are flexible and can be stretched out over as many semesters as you think you’ll need to complete your creative work. Students must allot several weeks during their final thesis semester to meet the administrative requirements of the degree. You need to be registered for at least 1 credit of thesis during the semester in which you graduate, unless you are graduating in a summer term, when you can enroll in CWL 599 for 0 credits. Thesis requires a minimum of 6 credits. If you need an extra semester but you have taken all 6 credits of thesis already, you will have to keep buying additional credits beyond the requirement to stay enrolled.

Who.   Students petition a faculty member to serve as thesis advisor. The advisor is a member of the faculty of the MFA in Creative Writing and Literature program who has expertise in your thesis genre. It is generally someone with whom you have taken at least one course or workshop. Generally speaking, the thesis advisor provides guidance and criticism in the completion of the project, although the advisory role varies somewhat by genre as well as by individual faculty and student preferences. The thesis represents a chance for you to establish your own professional habits as you complete a major work under the guidance of a faculty advisor. You will no longer be receiving the line-by-line edits often enjoyed in workshops. Rather, you will be focusing on the challenge of completing a novel, memoir, essay collection, poetry collection, short story collection, script or other written work. Your advisor helps you with this aspect of the process -- conceptualizing the thesis and carrying out the project.

After a faculty member agrees to serve as a thesis advisor, he or she will guide you in the selection of a thesis committee, which will consist of your advisor, one other member of the faculty in Creative Writing and Literature, and one outside reader knowledgeable in the student’s field of interest. These second and third readers offer fresh eyes and new insights on the manuscript. Readers expect to see the final draft of the thesis, and their role is secondary to that of your thesis advisor. Readers generally will either approve or disapprove your thesis and provide brief commentary. The commentary varies by reader and can be as short as a paragraph or as long as a page. The reader review is generally succinct and may touch upon such aspects of the work as craft, language, originality, artistic relevance, intellectual depth, etc. Sometimes, readers may want to discuss a thesis draft with the advisor or MFA director, and may ask the advisor or director to incorporate the reader’s observations into his or her own comments to the student in order to simplify the process of giving and getting feedback. You should provide each of your readers with a hard copy of your manuscript.

Where .   After the manuscript is written to the satisfaction of both MFA student and advisor and the thesis has been given to the second and third readers, the student must submit the thesis to the Creative Writing Program.

For the Creative Writing Program, students submit a bound copy of the manuscript with these specifications:

• black buckram cover
• hardcover binding
• gold lettering on the spine in lower case with capitalization of first letters of words only (Last Name       Title of Work       Year)
• 8 ½ x 11” interior page size
• Opening pages reflect the thesis template  

Generate your signature page by filling out the Thesis Completion Form . Please make sure you have your thesis advisor's and readers' official titles before beginning. 

There are many online binderies that can do this job. Here are two:

Thesis on Demand

http://thesisondemand.com/

http://www.book1one.com/AcademicBooks/ThesesDissertations.aspx

One local bindery is C & H Bookbinding    www.chbook.com . ProQuest is another option, but historically this company has taken longer to deliver bound copies. A third company is Bridgeport National Bindery, Inc.,   www.bnbindery.com .

Whether you use an online or bricks-and-mortar bindery, direct it to send the pre-paid bound copy to:

MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literature Chancellors Hall Room 238 Stony Brook Southampton 239 Montauk Highway Southampton, NY 11968 Phone: 631-632-5030

Thesis Formatting

• Your pages can be single or double-sided
• Standard fonts such as Times New Roman and Arial are recommended. Fonts should not be smaller than 15 characters per inch. Size 12 font is recommended. o
• Exceptions for font size will be made in the case of format style, when larger type is used for chapter or division headings, or if it is necessary to change type for equations, symbols or figure captions.
• If you are unsure whether your font is acceptable, please have it checked by the Program.
• The font must be consistent throughout the text. Fonts can differ for tables/figures/graphs, etc., but all main text (in the preliminary pages, main body, and reference material) should be in the same font.
• Font color must be black for all main text. Colored font can be used for charts, graphs, maps, etc.
• All margins must measure 1 inch. 1½ inches for all margins is also acceptable. The pages are trimmed if the document is bound, so it is important to adhere to these specifications.
• The right-hand margin of the text may be justified or ragged.
• Page numbers should be contained in the above margin requirements. However, page numbers may be placed at the 1” margin, but should not be placed lower than ½”.
• Spacing and Indentations
• The text of your manuscript may be single or double-spaced, although single-spacing is preferred. One and a half inch spacing is also acceptable.
• The first line of each paragraph should be indented using a standard tab indent.
• The first line of the text of each chapter or major division should be about 1” (approximately 6 single spaces) below the last line of the chapter title or section heading, or may be begun on a new page.
• Please use page numbers.
• Preliminary pages are numbered in lower-case Roman numerals at the bottom center. All preliminary pages are numbered except for the Title Page and Copyright Page (which is optional).
• Numbering for main body of text:
• Arabic numerals begin with 1 on the first page of the first chapter.
• Every page in the main body must be consecutively numbered in Arabic numerals centered at the top or bottom of the page.
• The placement of page numbers in the main body must remain consistent throughout the thesis.
• Page numbers should be contained in the margin requirements. However, page numbers may be placed at the 1” margin, but should not be placed lower than ½”.

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