Chatham University MFA in Creative Writing
Program Description
Chatham University's ground breaking MFA in Creative Writing, focuses on nature, environment and travel writing, nurturing creative writers interested in the environmental imagination and place-based writing. Our program is inspired by the work of Chatham alumna, Rachel Carson, a creative writer whose work demonstrates lyricism and social conscience.
The heart of our program--nature, environmental and travel writing--honors Carson's legacy, but expands the interpretation of environment to include any place-based writing and all genres shaped by human relationship with place.
In addition to plentiful workshops and craft courses in poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, screenwriting and children's writing, our unique MFA program includes nature and environmental writing, travel writing, and field seminars focused on the literature of wild, urban, and rural landscapes. Each year our field seminars offer students the opportunity to travel with faculty and generate creative work about the experience. Past and current field seminars include trips to Costa Rica, New Zealand, Greece, India, New Orleans and western Pennsylvania. The MFA is offered as both a full residential and also low residency program.
The heart of our program--nature, environmental and travel writing--honors Carson's legacy, but expands the interpretation of environment to include any place-based writing and all genres shaped by human relationship with place.
In addition to plentiful workshops and craft courses in poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, screenwriting and children's writing, our unique MFA program includes nature and environmental writing, travel writing, and field seminars focused on the literature of wild, urban, and rural landscapes. Each year our field seminars offer students the opportunity to travel with faculty and generate creative work about the experience. Past and current field seminars include trips to Costa Rica, New Zealand, Greece, India, New Orleans and western Pennsylvania. The MFA is offered as both a full residential and also low residency program.
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Amy | '2010
Chatham encourages writer's development in every way possible, without being unrealistic.
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