Creative Writing for Graduates
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The MFA Program in Creative Writing is nationally ranked and our
graduates are the recipients of many distinguished awards and
fellowships. They include winners of the National Poetry Series
competition, the Agnes Lynch Starrett Award, the Ruth Lake Award, the
Nimrod Prize, the Caine Prize in Fiction, the Commonwealth Prize, the
Randall Jarrell Poetry Prize, AWP Intro Journal awards, the Philadelphia
Foundation Award in Creative Writing, the D.C. Commission of the Arts
Creative Writing Fellowship, and the Maryland and Rhode Island State
Council of the Arts Fellowship. They have gone on to receive Stegner
Fellowships and grants from the National Endowment of the Arts, and
their work has been included in anthologies such as Best New American
Voices, the O'Henry Awards, American Poetry: The Next Generation, The
New American Poets, and Beyond the Frontier: Contemporary
African-American Poetry.
We are located in a rich literary community, with an abundance of fiction and poetry readings, including readings at Georgetown, Howard, Johns Hopkins, George Mason, George Washington, American University, and the PEN/Faulkner, and a variety of local bookstores. Each year the Program in Creative Writing, in conjunction with the Jiménez-Porter Writers' House brings visiting writers to visit workshops and read in the Writers Here & Now series. |
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