The M.F.A. in Creative Writing at the University of Arizona

Founded in 1974, the University of Arizona MFA program is ranked one of the top ten graduate writing programs in the country. Our two-year residency program offers workshops, craft seminars, and interdisciplinary opportunities, culminating in the production of the thesis, a book-length manuscript. In addition to courses in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, we offer special topics workshops in the novel and screenwriting and a wide variety of community-based internships.

Writing and writer-to-writer conversations are at the heart of this MFA experience, in and out of the classroom. We work closely with the University of Arizona Poetry Center, an internationally renowned poetry library that holds over 30,000 volumes of poetry and sponsors a variety of programs and readings. Visiting writers also read in the UA Prose Series, and graduate students participate in the biweekly Works-in-Progress Reading Series at Casa Libre en la Solana in downtown Tucson.,

The Sonora Review,edited and produced by our graduate students, is a nationally distributed biannual literary journal publishing prose and poetry from both established and emerging writers. Founded in 1980, it is the oldest student-run literary journal in the country. Sonora Review also sponsors group readings and engages in literary projects and fundraisers in the local community. Former staff members include Antonya Nelson, Robert Boswell, Richard Russo, Tony Hoagland, and David Foster Wallace. Work originally printed in the Sonora Review has appeared in Best of the West and Best American Poetry, and has won O.Henry Awards and Pushcart Prizes.
 
AWP!  Join us in Denver for the AWP conference from April 7-10, 2010. We will have a booth with the Sonora Review and the Poetry Center, and we are hosting a reading featuring alumni reading poetry, fiction, and literary nonfiction, namely Gregory Martin, Richard Siken, Robert Boswell, Kristi Maxwell and Padma Viswanathan.  
                               
The University of Arizona MFA Look Book 2009 will be out later this month! This collection of poetry and prose was sent to agents and editors across the country to promote the best work of our graduates.  .       
                                                                   
Application deadline for 2010-2011:  January 1, 2010

Video: MFA Students and Faculty Speak!  

Aurelie Sheehan
Director

Marlene Cooksey
Program Assistant

University of Arizona
Creative Writing Program
Department of English
PO Box 210067
Tucson, AZ 85721-0067
520.621.3880
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