Western Kentucky University

Course Details

MFA Creative Writing

Course Description

WKU's two-calendar-year, fully funded, residential MFA program in Creative Writing will prepare students for lives as writers of novels, short fiction, creative nonfiction, scripts, and poetry and related pursuits such as teaching, literary editing, and publishing. Our students also complete a secondary concentration in literature, composition/rhetoric, or teaching English as a second language in order to give them additional options for employment after graduation. The program of study consists of 48 credit hours of graduate course work, culminating in rigorous comprehensive exams and the completion of a publishable creative thesis in fiction, poetry, scriptwriting, or creative nonfiction.

Course Duration

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2year

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