University of Arkansas - Monticello :: NewPages Guide to Creative Writing Programs
University of Arkansas at Monticello
MFA in Creative Writing
About the program: UAM's entirely online program offers workshops in creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry. We offer our students a rigorous, yet flexible education with small classes and a quality education at an affordable price.
Contact Information:
562 University Drive
Monticello, AR 71656
Website: www.uamont.edu/Arts_and_Humanities/mfa/
Program director: Diane Payne
Phone: (870) 460-1247
Email: payne@uamont.edu
Program Information:
Degrees offered: MFA Creative Writing
Genres: fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry
Type of program: online
Length of program: 2 years
Enrollment: 10
Total credits required: 48
Application deadlines: rolling
Scholarships available: no
Assistantships: yes
Core faculty: Nan Cohen, Matthew Henriksen, Sandy Longhorn, Melinda Palacio, Diane Payne, Mark Spencer, Cheri Randall
Publishing/editing courses: yes
Literary magazine: yes
Reading series: yes
Program description: The UAM Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing provides opportunity to talented and highly self-disciplined individuals to earn an MFA tailored to fit their lifestyles, interests, and goals at an affordable price relative to other MFA programs and to develop their creative-writing, critical-thinking, and literary analysis skills to an exemplary level through study under successful and dedicated writer-teachers from a range of backgrounds and aesthetic perspectives. The mission of the program is directly related to the mission of the university in that it enhances individuals’ abilities to think creatively and critically, to effectively communicate, to be technologically literate, to appreciate and contribute to the cultures of their communities and beyond, and to possess awareness and sensitivity to global issues.
last updated 11/14/2012