City College of New York MFA in Creative Writing
Program Description
For more than four decades City College has offered serious creative writing students a chance to meet one another and to work under the guidance of a legendary faculty. Writers who have taught at City College include Donald Barthelme, David Bradley, Harold Brodkey, Gwendolyn Brooks, Anthony Burgess, Alfred Corn, Francine du Plessix Gray, John Hawkes, Joseph Heller, Maureen Howard, George Lamming, Ann Lauterbach, William Matthews, Edna O’Brien, Joel Oppenheimer, Cynthia Ozick, Grace Paley, Manuel Puig, Adrienne Rich and Susan Sontag.
City College is ranked among the top 40 graduate creative writing programs by US News and World Report. Salar Abdoh, Carolyn Ferrell, Oscar Hijuelos, Ben Marcus, Ted Mooney, Walter Mosley, Ernesto Quinones, Judith Rossner and Michelle Wallace are among the several hundred former students who’ve published books of fiction, memoir, poetry and criticism.
The model for the Program is the mentoring of young and beginning writers by established authors. The goal is to arrive at a point of creative self-knowledge that will foster disciplined writing, in an original style about personally meaningful subject matter.
City College is ranked among the top 40 graduate creative writing programs by US News and World Report. Salar Abdoh, Carolyn Ferrell, Oscar Hijuelos, Ben Marcus, Ted Mooney, Walter Mosley, Ernesto Quinones, Judith Rossner and Michelle Wallace are among the several hundred former students who’ve published books of fiction, memoir, poetry and criticism.
The model for the Program is the mentoring of young and beginning writers by established authors. The goal is to arrive at a point of creative self-knowledge that will foster disciplined writing, in an original style about personally meaningful subject matter.
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Laurel Kallen | '2009
A Supportive Environment
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G.D. Peters | '2009
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Sarah Beck | '2008
Great experience.
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Casey Gordon | '2008
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Admissions
Full-time: Yes
Part-time: Yes
Length of Program: 2 Years
Low Residency: No
Student Body
Genre
Fiction
Poetry
