创意写作硕士/硕士

Follow your passion, write your story and work to get published. 加入更多 600 writers from around the globe who have chosen Wilkes to advance their craft in 多种写作体裁.

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Why Study Creative Writing at Wilkes?

At Wilkes, we focus on the craft, community, and career of writing. 行业的反馈 is an incredible benefit to aspiring writers. That is why each creative thesis is read and evaluated by a working agent, editor, publisher, or producer. 这些外面的 readers provide detailed notes about your work and review them with you during a one-on-one 居民会议.

This focus on the profession of writing, along with the dedication of our faculty (who "stay with you" even after you graduate), has propelled our creative writing MA/MFA students to an exceptional level of success after graduation, resulting in hundreds of published or produced works.

Low-Residency程序

  • Come together twice a year to attend workshops, connect with your cohort, check in with your mentor and expand your craft.
  • Complete your coursework online between residencies with the support and guidance 有成就的作家.
  • Enjoy readings from nationally-acclaimed writers, program alumni, faculty and mentors.

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Creative Writing students at residency

你会学到什么??

  • Learn how to live like a writer, building a writing plan, schedule and practice that encourages discipline and supports and sustains your creative process.
  • Learn to tell your story in a way that engages the audience—exploring genres, experimenting with writing conventions, and mastering the presentation of your work so it can be 与世界共享.
  • Focus on developing your craft with concentrations in fiction, creative nonfiction, playwriting, screenwriting, writing for television, poetry, spoken word, or publishing.
  • Revise with intention—for that's where the “real writing” begins. 工艺说明及 feedback, translating them into actionable edits that make your project shine through 修订.
  • 学会出版/制作. Learn ways to share your finalized manuscript with editors, publishers and producers, and how to pitch your project when given the opportunity. We do this by offering you that training and practice while you’re 在程序中!
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项目的亮点

完成校友

Our creative writing MA/MFA program boasts of not just several but hundreds of published 或者产生了校友. That’s because our faculty don’t say good-bye when you leave our program; rather, as they put it, “We stay with you.”

由代理商和编辑审阅

Every student’s thesis is read by a professional agent, editor, director or producer, providing valuable feedback, advice for the manuscript's eventual publication/production, and insight into the publishing world.

奖学金 and Graduate Assistantships

Most low-residency MFA programs can’t offer scholarships, but our program has six of them, and six graduate assistantships (with Etruscran Press, Kaylie Jones Books and Blue Moon/HaveScripts) to help make our already low tuition more affordable.

《澳门在线赌城娱乐》获布克奖

Wilkes alumnus 马龙·詹姆斯 MA ’06 won the 2015 Man Booker Prize for 七宗谋杀案简史. He is the first Jamaican author to win the prize, considered one of the most prestigious 文学奖.

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马龙·詹姆斯

职业生涯 & 结果

In addition to publishing and producing hundreds of literary works, our creative writing MA/MFA graduates go on to work as professors, editors, teachers, literary agents, directors of reading series, script writers for video games, high school teachers, book reviewers, freelance writers/editors, public relations or marketing directors, and in a variety of writing or writing-related jobs.

马龙·詹姆斯,文学硕士,06级

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布赖恩·法内利艺术硕士'10,诗歌

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Adrienne Pender MFA '11, Playwriting

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Morowa Yejide,文学硕士,12届

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Nisha Sharma,文学硕士,14届

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利亚·弗农文学硕士'15,非小说类

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安德烈·卡特大头照

I arrived for the January residency and the community experience was as advertised. I was able to engage with faculty on day one in a way I would not have dreamed of. 我的写作同伴敲定了这笔交易.

Andre Lewis Carter MFA ’18 Author of Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, published 凯莉·琼斯出版,2022年.

充满活力的写作社区

Our writing community is incredible. Successful writers in their own right, our 教员, outside readers and advisory board members come together to support and mentor students 在程序中.

著名的名字包括:

  • Ibrahim Ahmad, Executive Editor at Viking Press
  • 多诺弗里奥贝弗利, 和男孩一起坐车
  • Susan Cartsonis, Resonate Entertainment
  • 凯莉·琼斯,凯莉·琼斯图书公司
  • Ken Liu, winner of the Nebula, Hugo, Locus, World Fantasy, and FantLab Awards
  • Tim Seibles, Poet Laureate of Virginia
  • Johnny Temple, Publisher at Akashic Press
  • Chris Tomasino, The Tomasino Agency
  • 威廉J. 肯尼迪,普利策奖得主
  • 罗斯•Klavan 猛虎营
  • 马龙·詹姆斯06级硕士, 七宗谋杀案简史
  • J. 迈克尔·列侬 诺曼·梅勒:双重生活

In addition to our talented faculty, board members and outside readers, Wilkes has 与几家公司建立了合作关系 全国知名组织.

全国著名的

Our program regularly ranks as one of the top Creative Writing programs in the nation.

  • 最好的大学' Best Online Master’s in Creative Writing 项目 (2023, #3)
  • 大学排名's Best Online Master’s in Creative Writing 项目 (2023, #10)
  • 大学的选择' Best Online MFA in Creative Writing 项目 (2023, #4)