Program Overview
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As a student in the M.F.A. in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts program, you'll work with accomplished writers and form collegial bonds with highly motivated, talented fellow students. Your culminating project (or thesis) will be the print or electronic publication of poetry, fiction, essay or memoir that you have written, designed and produced. You'll help produce Welter, the University’s literary magazine, and have an opportunity to intern with Passager Books press and Passager, a national literary journal. (Passager Books' latest, Keeping time: 150 years of journal writing is now available.)
You'll also:
- participate in an array of writing classes and workshops in addition to courses in book arts, small press publishing and creativity
- send your work to established literary journals
- create, edit, design and produce your own print and electronic journals and
publish broadsides and chapbooks - learn to read as a writer and participate as a writer in the dialogue between tradition
and experimentation. - discover plork.
We're as concerned about what happens to you after you graduate as we are about the time you spend in our program. Our unique integration of writing and publishing skills will prepare you for a life of writing and make you a strong candidate for teaching and publishing positions; as a Master of Fine Arts is a terminal degree, it qualifies you to teach at the university level.
Classes are offered evenings, and some courses are offered in the summer for continuing students.
See what you, too, are capable of: Check out examples of your fellow students' work. Check out what our awesome creative writers are doing.
For program-specific questions and information, please contact Professor Kendra Kopelke; for all other inquiries, including those regarding admission to this program, please contact the UB Office of Graduate Admission at gradadmissions@ubalt.edu or 410.837.6565.
Program Director
Kendra Kopelke
Academic Program Specialist
Jaye Crooks
410.837.6022