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  • VCU's Creative Writing Program The Department of English at VCU is home to a creative writing program where graduate students can earn a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. In addition to the program itself, the Department publishes Blackbird: an Online Journal of Literature and the Arts , as well as hosting a variety of readings from VCU and visiting writers.
  • James River Writers The James River Writers association is a " nonprofit, Richmond, Virginia-based group of professional writers and friends of literature who have joined to promote the art of writing and the love of books in Virginia." They sponsor many different activities, from a local writing conference to regular readings and poetry slams. Substantial calendar of listings for local literary events.
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Building upon its recent 30th anniversary, Virginia Commonwealth University’s Master of Fine Arts in creative writing continues to celebrate its ongoing achievements and programmatic developments, including:

* Expanded creative nonfiction/CNF course offerings and created a “Dual Genre” track allowing our MFA students to formally add CNF to their academic concentrations.

* Small MFA workshop size. Excellent 3 to 1 student to faculty ratio. Currently: 9 full-time MFA faculty, approximately 27 graduate students.

* Every one of the nine full-time faculty members has a new or forthcoming book publication.

* New faculty hires in both fiction and creative nonfiction, including writers Hanna Pylvainen, Sonja Livingston, and Lina Maria Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas.

* Graduate assistantship stipends have greatly increased, and now range from $12,500 up to $24,000 a year (plus tuition waiver). All current full-time enrolled students are funded.

* Assistantships not only offer teaching opportunities in composition and expository writing, but also undergraduate creative writing classes as well.

* Assistantship assignments also include opportunity to coordinate VCU’s national literary awards, including the Cabell First Novelist, Levis Reading Prize, and Tarumoto Prize in short fiction.

* Offered new coursework in collaborative comic/graphic novelist pairing up MFA students with artists from VCU’s acclaimed School of the Arts.

* Additional and regular offerings in screenwriting, form and theory coursework, and literary editing/publishing seminars.

* Newly established travel stipends for MFA students for summer writing conference and study abroad travel, as well as yearly travel funding and registration waivers for students attending the annual AWP conference.

* Three-year course requirements that enable MFA students to design up to 6 credits of independent study and 6 credits of professional internships, including opportunities to work in electronic publishing (editorial, web design, digital sound editing, and more) via the program’s nationally prominent online literary journal, Blackbird.

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\nVirginia Commonwealth University offers undergraduate creative writing courses in fiction, poetry, and drama at both the introductory and advanced levels. Limited enrollment allows for individualized attention by instructors. Students frequently cite these courses as one of their most important undergraduate experiences. Of the ten upper-level courses required for the English major, undergraduates can take up to four in creative writing coursework. In addition, while no major in "creative writing" is currently offered, a minor in writing is available to all undergraduates, including English majors. The minor in writing is flexible, and students adapt it individually. It consists of 18 hours chosen from a list of selected writing courses, including creative writing, professional writing, and rhetoric courses. One of the courses in advanced nonfiction writing is required as a keystone course in the minor.

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Virginia Commonwealth University offers undergraduate creative writing courses in fiction, poetry, and drama at both the introductory and advanced levels. Limited enrollment allows for individualized attention by instructors. Students frequently cite these courses as one of their most important undergraduate experiences. Of the ten upper-level courses required for the English major, undergraduates can take up to four in creative writing coursework. In addition, while no major in “creative writing” is currently offered, a minor in writing is available to all undergraduates, including English majors. The minor in writing is flexible, and students adapt it individually. It consists of 18 hours chosen from a list of selected writing courses, including creative writing, professional writing, and rhetoric courses. One of the courses in advanced nonfiction writing is required as a keystone course in the minor.

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VCU is a state institution with a total enrollment of more than 26,000 students on its two campuses in Richmond, the capital of Virginia. The Medical College of Virginia Campus is near the financial, governmental, and shopping areas of a newly-renovated downtown. The Academic Campus is in Richmond's historic Fan District, which dates back to the 19th century. VCU is Virginia's largest urban university and features one of the nation's most comprehensive evening colleges, a nontraditional student body (nearly half of VCU's students are more than 25 years old), and a well-established, highly respected School of the Arts with programs in painting, sculpture, crafts, theatre, dance, and music. The Jazz Orchestra has many times been judged the best in the country. The city of Richmond is itself an attraction to many students. Founded in 1727, it is now one of the South's fastest-growing and most cosmopolitan cities. Rich in historic significance, Richmond was an important site in the lives of Patrick Henry, Edgar Allan Poe, and Thomas Jefferson, to name only a few. The city offers enjoyable and affordable cultural activities, including a professional symphony orchestra and ballet, several theaters, and a number of important museums devoted to art, history, and science.

Designed to attract students from varied undergraduate backgrounds who are writers of promise, the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program is especially suited for those interested primarily in the writing of fiction or poetry. In addition, to expand students' writing experience and versatility, advanced workshops are also available in nonfiction, screenwriting, the novel, and play-writing. Students may also undertake editorial internships with Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts or with the VCU First Novelist Award, and may serve as well as judges for the annual Levis Reading Prize in Poetry. Additional internships may be arranged with other local publishers.

Students in the program are encouraged to develop a strong personal sense of aesthetic and ethics, and to pursue excellence in writing, scholarship, and teaching. Through the workshop experience, as well as personal conferences with the writing faculty, the program aims to help students to significantly advance the quality of their writing, and to enable them to become sensitive, knowledgeable readers who are expert critics of their own and others' work. Students broaden their literary sophistication in a wide range of available courses which examine the literature of varied historical periods and geographic areas, introduce a spectrum of critical theories and perspectives, and explore the techniques and possibilities of the various literary genres. Innovative graduate seminars in topics of special interest and focus are offered each semester. Degree requirements, while rigorous, are flexible so that they can be individually tailored to fit the student's needs and goals. The program's limited enrollment allows for personal attention to the student's writing by a nationally prominent faculty (graduate workshops are limited to 12 or fewer students), as well as for establishing friendships with other developing writers in a diverse and challenging, yet mutually supportive, community of artists.

Clint McCown

Clint McCown is the author of the novels Haints, The Weatherman, War Memorials, and The Member-Guest, as well as the collections of poetry Dead Languages, Wind Over Water, Sidetracks, Total Balance Farm and The Dictionary of Unspellable Noises: New & Selected Poems, 1975-2018 (forthcoming). Several of his plays have been produced, and he has worked as a screenwriter for Warner Bros. and as a creative consultant for HBO television. As a broadcast journalist he received an Associated Press Award for Documentary Excellence for his investigations of organized crime. He has also toured as a principal actor with the National Shakespeare Company. He is the only writer to have twice won the American Fiction Prize; he has also received the Society of Midland Authors Award, the S. Mariella Gable Prize, the Germaine Breé Book Award, the Midwest Book Award, a Distinction in Literature citation from the Wisconsin Library Association, and a Discover Great Writers designation from Barnes & Noble. His stories, essays, and poems have appeared widely. He has been a contributing editor to a dozen national literary magazines and was the founding editor of the Beloit Fiction Journal, which he published for twenty years.

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Kathleen Graber

Kathleen Graber is the author of two collections of poetry, Correspondence (Saturnalia Books, 2006) and The Eternal City (Princeton University Press, 2010), which was finalist for the National Book Award, The National Book Critics Circle Award, and the winner of the Library of Virginia Literary Award for Poetry. She is the recipient of fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She has also been supported by a Hodder Fellow at Princeton University and an Amy Lowell Travelling Scholar. Her third collection of poems, The River Twice, is forthcoming from Princeton University Press.

Gregory Donovan

Gregory Donovan is the author of the poetry collections Torn from the Sun (Red Hen Press, 2015), given a starred review by Library Journal and named to its 2015 list of “Exciting New Works for National Poetry Month and Beyond” as well as being selected as a finalist for the Julie Suk Award from Jacar Press, and Calling His Children Home, winner of the Devins Award from the University of Missouri Press. In addition to poetry, essays, translations, and fiction published in The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, New England Review, diode, Crazyhorse, Gulf Coast, Copper Nickel, TriQuarterly, and many other journals, his poems have been collected in a number of anthologies, including The Devins Award Poetry Anthology and Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets of Virginia. He has won the Robert Penn Warren prize sponsored by New England Writers and judged by Rosanna Warren, as well as grants and fellowships from the Virginia Commission for the Arts, the Ucross Foundation, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. With the writer/director Michele Poulos, he is a producer of A Late Style of Fire, the feature-length documentary film on the life and work of the poet Larry Levis with original soundtrack composed by Iron & Wine which premiered in 2016 at the Mill Valley Film Festival in California as well as being selected for seven more film festivals and featured in special screenings at poetry festivals and universities across the country. Donovan has often served as a visiting writer and guest faculty member for summer conferences such as the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Chautauqua Writers’ Center, the Chesapeake Writers Conference, the Vermont College of Fine Arts Postgraduate Writers’ Conference, the University of Tampa MFA Program, and the Other Words Conference of the Florida Literary Arts Coalition. He also has been a faculty member with VCU study abroad programs in Scotland and most recently in Peru. Donovan is the director of the Levis Reading Prize as well as the Rebecca Mitchell Tarumoto Short Fiction Prize, and he is Senior Editor of Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts. For additional information, his author website is: http://www.gregoryedonovan.com.

David Wojahn

David Wojahn was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1953, and educated at the University of Minnesota and the University of Arizona. His first collection, Icehouse Lights, was chosen by Richard Hugo as a winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize, and published in 1982. The collection was also the winner of the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Book Award. His second collection, Glassworks, was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 1987, and was awarded the Society of Midland Authors’ Award for best volume of poetry to be published during that year. Pittsburgh is also the publisher of four of his subsequent books, Mystery Train (1990), Late Empire (1994), The Falling Hour (1997) and Spirit Cabinet (2002). Interrogation Palace: New and Selected Poems 1982–2004, published by Pittsburgh in 2006, was a named finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the O. B. Hardison Award from the Folger Shakespeare Library. He is also the author of a collection of essays on contemporary poetry, Strange Good Fortune (University of Arkansas Press, 2001), editor (with Jack Myers) of A Profile of 20th Century American Poetry (Southern Illinois University Press, 1991), and editor of two posthumous collections of Lynda Hull’s poetry, The Only World (HarperCollins, 1995) and Collected Poems (Graywolf, 2006). A new volume of his essays on poetry, From the Valley of Making, will appear in 2015 from the University of Michigan Press. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Virginia, Illinois and Indiana Councils for the Arts, and in 1987–88 was the Amy Lowell Traveling Poetry Scholar. He has taught at a number of institutions, among them Indiana University, the University of Chicago, the University of Houston, the University of Alabama, and the University of New Orleans. He is presently Professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University, and is also a member of the program faculty of the MFA in Writing Program of Vermont College of the Fine Arts. His newest collection, World Tree, was published by Pittsburgh in the 2011, and was awarded the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets, the Library of Virginia Book Award in Poetry, and the Poets’ Prize.

Sonja Livingston

Sonja Livingston's latest book, The Virgin of Prince Street: Expeditions into Devotion undertakes a series of sojourns through place and time to contemplate shifting religious and cultural concepts of devotion. She’s the author of the award-winning nonfiction books, Queen of the Fall and Ghostbread (winner of the AWP Prize and a Bronze Prize by Foreword), as well as Ladies Night at the Dreamland (named a best nonfiction book of 2016 by Kirkus). Recent essays appear The Kenyon Review, Salon, Sojourners and Lithub. Her work is widely anthologized in texts on writing and craft, including in Best of Brevity, Contemporary Creative Nonfiction, Waveform: Twenty-First Century Essays by Women, Poverty & Privilege: A Reader, and many others. Sonja’s nonfiction has received fellowships from the New York State Foundation for the Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Deming Fund, as well as awards from Arts & Letters, The Iowa Review, and Ruminate Magazine. Sonja taught in the MFA Program at the University of Memphis before coming to VCU and has also taught for Writing Workshops Abroad in Edinburgh, San Miguel de Allende, and Cork. She serves as Writer-in-Residence at the Gap Creek Writers Studio and faculty at Vermont College of Fine Art’s Postgraduate Writers’ Conference.

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Gretchen Comba

Gretchen Comba is the author of the story collection The Stillness of the Picture (Kore Press, 2016). Her fiction has appeared in the Alaska Quarterly Review, The Greensboro Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, New Orleans Review, The North American Review, River City, The South Carolina Review, and Yemassee. She is a recipient of the F. Scott Fitagerald Award for Short Fiction and the Yemassee Award for Exceptional Contribution to the Magazine; in addition, she was selected as a finalist for the Danahy Fiction Prize (Tampa Review), and her work has earned Special Mention in the Pushcart Prize anthology. Gretchen’s scholarship on William Maxwell has appeared in MidAmerica: The Yearbook of the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature, Oxford Bibliographies in American Literature Resources for American Literary Study. She received her MFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Katy Resch George

Katy Resch George is the author of the story collection Exposure, published by Kore Press with support from the National Endowment for the Arts. The collection was a finalist for the Black Lawrence Press Hudson Award, the Press 53 Fiction Award, and the Snake Nation Press Serena McDonald Kennedy Award. Her stories have appeared in Blackbird, West Branch, Painted Bride Quarterly, Pank and other magazines and have been recognized by the annual Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions list and the storySouth Million Writers Awards. She is the recipient of artist grants from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund and Richmond CultureWorks. Katy has taught for New York University, the City University of New York, and Virginia Commonwealth University. She is a proud graduate of the fiction MFA program at VCU and the poetry MFA program at Brooklyn College.

Jessica Nelson

Jessica Hendry Nelson is the author of the memoir If Only You People Could Follow Directions (2014), which was selected as a best debut book by the Indies Introduce New Voices program, the Indies Next List by the American Booksellers' Association, named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus Review, received starred reviews in Kirkus and Publisher's Weekly, and reviewed nationally in print and on NPR—including twice in (O) Oprah Magazine. It was also a finalist for the Vermont Book Award. She is also co-author of the forthcoming textbook and anthology Advanced Creative Nonfiction along with the writer Sean Prentiss (Bloomsbury, 2020). Her work has appeared in The Threepenny Review, Prairie Schooner, Tin House, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Rumpus, The Carolina Quarterly, Columbia Journal, Painted Bride Quarterly, Crab Orchard Review, PANK, Drunken Boat and elsewhere.

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This is the preliminary (or launch) version of the 2024-2025 VCU Bulletin. Courses that expose students to cutting-edge content and transformative learning may be added and notification of additional program approvals may be received prior to finalization. General education program content is also subject to change. The final edition and full PDF version will include these updates and will be available in August prior to the beginning of the fall semester.

The minor in creative writing consists of 18 credits, including the courses below. In order to complete the minor in creative writing, students must take at least 15 credits (five classes) in courses offered by the Department of English.

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Select at least 15 credits from the following: 15-18
The Reading and Writing of Fiction and Poetry
Writing for Stage and/or Screen
Writing Poetry
Writing Fiction
Writing Creative Nonfiction
Advanced Dramatic Writing
Advanced Poetry Writing
Advanced Fiction Writing
Advanced Creative Nonfiction Writing
Form and Theory of Poetry
Form and Theory of Fiction
Form and Theory of Creative Nonfiction
Topics in Writing
Three credits may be taken from these other writing and writing-related courses:0-3
Legal Writing
Persuasive Writing
Professional Writing
Professional, Scientific and Technical Writing
English Internship
Total Hours18

Note that some of these courses may be repeated (with different topics) for credit.

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  1. Creative writing, minor in < Virginia Commonwealth University

    The minor in creative writing consists of 18 credits, including the courses below. In order to complete the minor in creative writing, students must take at least 15 credits (five classes) in courses offered by the Department of English. Note that some of these courses may be repeated (with different topics) for credit.

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    CREATIVE WRITING, MINOR IN The minor in creative writing consists of 18 credits, including the courses below. In order to complete the minor in creative writing, students must take at least 15 credits (five classes) in courses offered by the Department of English. Course Title Hours Select at least 15 credits from the following: 1 15-18 ENGL ...

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    Minors. Our five minors include a wide variety of writing courses that allow you to hone your skills. Whether you want to concentrate on reading, writing, or creative work (or some combination of the three), we always offer a diversity of courses to meet your needs and interests. You can also get academic credit for internships —whether ...

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  5. Professional writing and editing, minor in < Virginia Commonwealth

    The final edition and full PDF version will include these updates and will be available in August prior to the beginning of the fall semester. The minor in professional writing and editing comprises 18 hours in writing courses. No more than six credits can be in creative writing; six credits may be taken in internship courses.

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    It also has a host of courses in creative writing, professional writing and digital rhetoric. Current and recent English undergraduate course offerings and descriptions are available below. Courses under certain rubrics (e.g., English 491, Senior Seminar, or English 627, Literature in Society) vary semester to semester, depending on the instructor.

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    Minors Courses Internships Scholarships and Awards Graduate MA in English MFA in Creative Writing PhD in Media, Art and Text ... MFA in Creative Writing. [email protected]. Creative Writing. Sonja Livingston, MFA. Associate Professor. [email protected]. Creative Writing. Clint McCown, MFA. Professor. [email protected].

  8. Home

    The Department of English at VCU is home to a creative writing program where graduate students can earn a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. In addition to the program itself, the Department publishes Blackbird: an Online Journal of Literature and the Arts, as well as hosting a variety of readings from VCU and visiting writers.

  9. Creative writing courses at VCU? : r/vcu

    I'm a creative writing minor and I think the creative writing profs at VCU are all pretty great! I haven't taken many courses, but from what I've heard and my experience, I don't think you can go wrong. They're super sweet and I recommend taking the courses that are structured as workshops - very helpful for feedback on your writing.

  10. MFA in Creative Writing

    MFA in Creative Writing. Our selective and academically rigorous 48-credit, three-year program is designed to provide talented writers with the opportunity to work closely with both outstanding faculty and gifted peers. Students will strengthen their craft, develop their literary aesthetics, enrich their understanding of existing traditions and ...

  11. Media studies, minor in < Virginia Commonwealth University

    The minor in media studies consists of a minimum of 18 credits in mass communications as described below, including a minimum of nine upper-level credits. To declare the minor, students must pass MASC 101 with a minimum grade of C and have a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.50. All courses counted toward the minor must be completed with a minimum ...

  12. PDF Minors & Certificates at Virginia Commonwealth University

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  13. English

    Students have the option to pursue minors in creative writing or professional writing and editing. Students also have the opportunity for meaningful experiential learning, whether through internships, independent studies, or pursuit of the department's Distinguished Majors program. ... Get expert advice from VCU Alumni ranging from graduate ...

  14. Directory

    Minors Courses Internships Scholarships and Awards Graduate MA in English ... Creative Writing. Film, New Media, Theory ... MFA in Creative Writing. [email protected]. Creative Writing. Hayley Graffunder, MFA. Adjunct Faculty. [email protected]. C. William Griffin. Professor Emeritus. Michael Ra-shon Hall, PhD. Assistant Professor.

  15. English, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

    The final edition and full PDF version will include these updates and will be available in August prior to the beginning of the fall semester. The Bachelor of Arts program in English requires a minimum of 120 credits, with at least 33 upper-level (numbered 300 to 499) credits in the major. Six of the 33 credits may be taken in upper-level ...

  16. AWP: Guide to Writing Programs

    The minor in writing is flexible, and students adapt it individually. It consists of 18 hours chosen from a list of selected writing courses, including creative writing, professional writing, and rhetoric courses. One of the courses in advanced nonfiction writing is required as a keystone course in the minor.

  17. r/vcu on Reddit: Courses that you think a Creative Writing student

    The unofficial Reddit community for VCU! A place for VCU Students, Faculty, and Rams fans to chat about and discus all things VCU! ... There is an early level creative advertising writing class called Story (masc 204) but I'm not sure if all the sessions are full though. I've liked a lot of the advertising professors who have taught it ...

  18. Creative Writing, Minor

    Creative Writing, Minor June 20, 2024 / in Minor Arts and Creative Industries A Creative Writing minor is a great way to supplement your main degree, whether it's English or Business or Gender Studies or Criminology or almost any discipline you can think of.

  19. Creative writing, minor in < Virginia Commonwealth University

    This is the preliminary (or launch) version of the 2023-2024 VCU Bulletin. This edition includes all programs and courses approved by the publication deadline; however we may receive notification of additional program approvals after the launch. ... The minor in creative writing consists of 18 credits, including the courses below. In order to ...

  20. MFA Program Guide

    Most second and third readers will have minor suggestions to make. Many of those suggestions will be up to you to follow. ... as a longstanding member of the Associated Writing Programs, the MFA program in creative writing at VCU and its faculty herein agree to the recommendation that creative theses shall not be made available on the web ...

  21. College of Arts and Sciences

    The creative writing minor is firmly grounded within the liberal arts tradition, integrating courses in poetry, fiction, screenwriting, and creative nonfiction writing within their broader literary and cultural context. Introductory courses familiarize students with the practice and theory of creative writing. Advanced courses offer a workshop ...

  22. Creative Writing Minor

    The Writing Forward Reading Series brings creative writers with international, national, and regional reputations to the Santa Clara University campus for readings, classroom discussions, informal meetings with students, and interviews with the Santa Clara Review literary/arts magazine.This collaborative program between the English Department's Creative Writing Program and the student-run ...

  23. English

    The Department of English affords students a rich undergraduate education in the liberal arts centered on literature, cultural studies, and writing. Critical, professional, or creative writing projects are integral to every course in the English major. Students and faculty in the English Department discuss and write about British, American, and ...

  24. Undergraduate Majors and Minors

    The College of Arts and Sciences offers students dozens of majors and minors. Ranging from the arts to the humanities to the natural and social sciences, many programs incorporate an interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary curriculum. As part of a Santa Clara education, students are required to complete the core curriculum in addition to the ...