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We’re very pleased
to offer the Rutgers-Newark Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, and
will begin accepting applications for our Fall 2009 class in Fiction, Poetry
and Nonfiction in November 2008 (please see How
To Apply). Our MFA Program, located on the most richly diverse
undergraduate campus in the nation, a mere PATH train ride from Manhattan,
will be both cutting edge and deeply important. Literature comprises the
consciousness and conscience of a culture, and our MFA for the 21st Century
is designed to nurture many voices. Our Writing Faculty in Fiction includes novelist, short story writer and MFA Director Jayne Anne Phillips, novelist Tayari Jones, and short story writer and Rutgers-Newark Writer in Residence Alice Elliott Dark (In The Gloaming). Our Poetry faculty are distinguished poet and translator Rachel Hadas and Rigoberto González. M.F. Steinhardt Visiting Writers for 2008/09 are James Hoch and Jaime Manrique. Our accomplished Nonfiction faculty are Pulitzer Prize finalist James Goodman, Vietnam and science fiction specialist H. Bruce Franklin, and jazz pianist and author Lewis Porter. Many of the visiting editors and authors who comprise our Writers at Newark Reading Series do a workshop and all of them do MFA-only Q & A’s. We invite you, writers from diverse backgrounds and cultures, students whose excellence as writers will enrich Rutgers-Newark and the Newark community, to join us in this new and unique program in our exciting inaugural year. Please peruse our ideas, and apply by January 15, 2009, in order to be considered for financial aid. We encourage you to apply to this exciting new Program with a strong, competitive manuscript and the dedication required by your craft and your calling. |
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