MFA Program

Creative Writing, MFA

The Roosevelt MFA in creative writing is designed to provide writers with the tools and guidance to express their knowledge of human experience and their personal and community aspirations in well-crafted fiction, poetry, dramatic scripts, and creative nonfiction. Staffed by professional writers distinguished for their abilities as teachers, creative writing at Roosevelt is an innovative program dedicated to developing students' literary knowledge and sense of writer's craft while offering real-world guidance for negotiating a future career in writing. To achieve this, the program offers three kinds of experience:

• practice of various literary forms through workshops in poetry, fiction, play writing, screen writing, and creative nonfiction
• course work in literary traditions, literary and critical theory, contemporary aesthetic developments, practical analysis of the principles of critique, and prevailing forces and protocols in the literary marketplace
• training and experience in one or more practical applications of writing, such as editing, publishing, and marketing; public service writing internships placing students in nonprofit or corporate organizations; teaching writing, whether composition, literature, or creative writing, in the University and creative writing in community youth and senior centers in the Chicago area

Admission requirements and speciality areas information.