Lenoir-Rhyne University

The Thomas Wolfe MFA offers support and exploration in craft and concept for writers seeking to deepen their creative practice. Students engage professional, publishing, and pedagogical aspects of this work. Weekly gatherings in Zoom for class, as well as a student-led Saturday Morning Writing Session, provide a lively adventure of expansion and discovery. 

In the course of the past two decades, the healing and curative benefits of Creative Writing have generated prodigious attention in the field of medical research. Housed within the Thomas Wolfe MFA, a certification program in Narrative Medicine offers inquiry and instruction in the recognized field of medical practice, a healthcare for the soul grounded in Indigenous wisdom and practice. 

The Thomas Wolfe MFA answers its namesakes call to heal “our collective wound” of ancestral trauma both imposed and suffered. It is a weight everyone carries, and one the program embraces with passion, community, and courage through a lens of Geopoetics and Storytelling in all its forms. Wolfe observed that stories and poems emerge from shared root in the earth he urged everyone to reconcile while they find their own.