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Eastern Washington University

Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing

501 N Riverpoint Blvd Suite 425

Spokane, Washington  99202

Website: www.ewumfa.com

Program director: Gregory Spatz

Program contact: Pamela Russell-Elliott

Phone: 509-359-4956

Email: prussell@ewu.edu

Degrees offered: MFA Creative Writing; BA ENGL/CRWR

Genres: Fiction, Literary Nonfiction, Poetry

Type of program: residency

Length of program: 2 years

Enrollment: 60

Total credits required: 72

Application deadlines: February 15

Scholarships available: yes

Core faculty: Gregory Spatz, Jonathan Johnson, Christopher Howell, Natalie Kusz, Samuel Ligon, Rachel Toor

Visiting faculty: John R. Keeble, Nance VanWinckel, Melissa Kwasny, Jess Walter

Assistantships: yes

Publishing/editing courses: yes

Literary magazine: yes, Willow Springs

Reading series: yes

Recent visiting writers: Melissa Kwasny, Lydia Millett, Sally Tisdale, Lee Gutkind, Thomas Lynch, Marilynne Robinson

Program description: The Inland Northwest Center for Writers Master of Fine Arts program is an intensive, two-year, pre-professional course of study with an emphasis on the practice of literature as a fine art. The program includes course work in the study of literature from the vantage point of its composition and history, but the student’s principal work is done in advanced workshops and in the writing a of a book-length thesis of publishable quality in fiction, literary nonfiction or poetry. The MFA is a terminal degree program.