master's in creative writing

Please Note: The below information about admission to graduate fiction and poetry workshops remains in effect for the 2008-09 academic year. Soon thereafter, the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program will replace the Master of Arts/Master of Science Creative-Writing option described here.

Southern has a thriving and long-lived culture, tradition, and community of creative writers. Along with a nationally-recognized, award-winning creative-writing faculty, Southern is also home to the 30-year-standing literary publication, Folio, and partial home to the national, award-winning literary and arts periodical, The Connecticut Review. The Creative Writing Program's visiting writers' and editors' series brings nationally-renowned writers to campus to read from their work, as well as editors from such prestigious national publications as The Southern Review, Louisiana Literature, Cincinnati Review and The Gettysburg Review. Our students have been published in journals such as Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, The South Carolina Review, Phoebe and American Letters and Commentary, and have won a range of national awards and fellowships.  

For information about admission guidelines to the graduate creative writing workshops, English 502/503, 506/507, please see below.

The procedure to apply for admission to graduate Creative Writing courses for Fall 2008 is listed below. Applications should be submitted to Professor Robin Troy (502/03) or Professor Vivian Shipley (506/07) by October 20, 2008. Decisions will be made as soon thereafter as possible and applicants will be notified of their status and be given permission to enroll or not. Matriculating graduate students who are specializing in Creative Writing will be given first consideration.

APPLICATION PROCEDURE

Please provide a hard copy of the following information to the instructor of the course you wish to take:
1) Full name.
2) Student ID#.
3) E-mail address and phone number.
4) Matriculating or non-matriculating status.
5) The course in which you wish to enroll.
6) CW courses you have already taken and how many times.
7) Whether or not you are pursuing a specialization in CW.

If you are a non-matriculating student, are not specializing in CW or have not already taken a course in the genre for which you wish to enroll, you must submit either a sample of creative work or a one-page explanation of why you wish to take the course and believe you are qualified.

E-mail applications will NOT be accepted. Applications may be placed in the mailboxes of Mock or Parrish or mailed to: SCSU
English Department
Professor Parrish/Mock
505 Crescent St.
New Haven, CT 06515

For further information, please contact Tim Parrish at parrisht1@southernct.edu or 203-392-6745 or Jeff Mock at mockj1@southernct.edu or 203-392-5527.