University of Baltimore

MFA Program

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Program Established:

2004

Location:

Baltimore, MD

Genre:

Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction

Residency:

Full

Duration:

3 Years

Incoming Class Size:

Application Deadline:

Rolling Admissions

Application Fee:

$50

Website:

http://www.ubalt.edu/creativewriting

Contact E-mail:

bboyd@ubalt.edu

Contact Name:

Betsy Boyd

Core Faculty Includes:

Poetry: Steven Leyva
Fiction: Betsy Boyd, Jane Delury
Nonfiction: D. Watkins, Marion Winik

Funding/Employment Opportunities:

The program offers partial funding. Graduate teaching assistantships are available to qualified students in their second and third years.

Affiliated Publications/Publishers:

Baltimore Fishbowl, Little Patuxent Review, Passager, Welter, Passager Books, Plork Press

Other Features:

The program hosts a reading series of writers and publishing professionals. Other features include courses on publishing, creativity, and teaching writing; a student-run reading series; Welter, a student-run literary magazine; internships at Baltimore arts organizations and University of Baltimore presses Plork Press and Passager Books; and the requirement for each student to write, design, and produce a book.

After the February 15 application deadline, the program considers applications on a rolling basis if space is available.

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