MASTER OF FINE ARTS IN CREATIVE WRITING

*Named one of the top ten low-residency programs by Poets & Writers magazine.

*Also one of "the more distinguished low-residency programs" according to The Creative Writing MFA Handbook.

The MFA Program in Creative Writing at Lesley University takes your writing as seriously as you do, working with you to turn your promise into settled accomplishment.   

Students may choose one of five program concentrations:

• Fiction
  
• Nonfiction
  
• Poetry
  
• Writing for Stage and Screen
  
• Writing for Young People
  

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Low-residency: community and individual attention
At our nine-day residencies, you join an artistic community in craft seminars, workshops, readings, and publishing-related events. During the semesters, working one-on-one with a faculty mentor, you develop your talent through the best relationship for mastering the art of writing: the dialogue between aspiring and experienced writer.
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A setting that energizes writers
Lesley is one of the few low-residency programs in a major literary city: Cambridge, Massachusetts.  During our residencies, you experience an epicenter of writing and publishing.

Unique interdisciplinary component
Lesley’s interdisciplinary component is among the program’s key distinctions.  It is designed to serve your own drive and imagination.  Interdisciplinary projects can enhance your writing through independent studies; help you toward a future as a public writer through internships, teaching assistantships, and other real-world literary experiences; and encourage in-depth work in more than one literary genre.
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Guidance from prize-winning writers
Celebrated practitioners of the art they teach, your Lesley faculty mentors are passionate writers and teachers.  Aesthetically diverse, they cohere around a teaching philosophy both rigorous and generous with constructive criticism.
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