Creative Writing MA/MFA

LitFest 2024

澳门赌场在线娱乐(Wilkes University)自豪地举办了第四届年度LitFest,这是一场书面的庆祝活动 文字特色项目的校友,教师和客座艺术家.

LitFest 2024 Schedule

追随你的激情,写你的故事,努力出版. Join the more than 600位来自世界各地的作家选择澳门赌场在线娱乐来提升他们的写作水平 a variety of writing genres.

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Why Study Creative Writing at Wilkes?

澳门赌场在线娱乐,我们专注于写作的工艺,社区和职业. Industry feedback is an incredible benefit to aspiring writers. That is why each creative thesis is 由工作代理人、编辑、出版商或制片人阅读和评估. These outside 读者会提供关于你工作的详细笔记,并在一对一的过程中与你一起审阅 residency meeting.

这种对写作职业的关注,以及我们教师的奉献精神 (即使在你毕业后,他们也会“和你在一起”),这推动了我们的创造性写作 MA/MFA学生在毕业后取得了非凡的成功,导致 hundreds of published or produced works.

Low-Residency Program

  • 每年聚会两次,参加研讨会,与你的同事联系,签到 with your mentor and expand your craft.
  • 在支持和指导下完成您的在线课程 of accomplished writers.
  • 享受全国知名作家,项目校友,教师和导师的阅读.

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Creative Writing students at residency

What Will You Learn?

  • 学习如何像一个作家一样生活,制定一个写作计划,时间表和实践 鼓励纪律,支持和维持你的创作过程.
  • 学会用一种吸引观众的方式来讲述你的故事——探索类型,尝试 通过写作惯例,掌握你的作品的呈现,这样它就可以 shared with the world.
  • 专注于提高你的写作能力,专注于小说,创造性的非小说, 剧本、剧本、电视、诗歌、口语或出版写作.
  • 用心修改——因为这才是“真正写作”的开始. Process notes and 反馈,将它们转化为可操作的编辑,使你的项目脱颖而出 revision.
  • Learn to get published/produced. Learn ways to share your finalized manuscript with 编辑,出版商和制作人,以及如何在有机会的时候推销你的项目. 我们通过在项目中为你提供培训和实践来做到这一点!
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Program Highlights

Accomplished Alumni

我们的创意写作硕士/硕士课程拥有的不仅仅是几个,而是数百个出版 or produced alumni. 那是因为我们的老师不会在你离开的时候说再见 program; rather, as they put it, “We stay with you.”

Review by Agents and Editors

每个学生的论文都由专业的经纪人、编辑、导演或制片人阅读, 为稿件的最终出版/制作提供有价值的反馈和建议; and insight into the publishing world.

Scholarships and Graduate Assistantships

大多数低居住率MFA项目不能提供奖学金,但我们的项目有六个 还有6个研究生奖学金(伊特鲁斯克兰出版社,凯莉·琼斯图书公司) 和Blue Moon/HaveScripts)来帮助我们已经很低的学费变得更实惠.

Alumnus wins the Man Booker Prize

澳门赌场在线娱乐校友马龙·詹姆斯获得2015年布克奖 A Brief History of Seven Killings. 他是第一位获得该奖项的牙买加作家,被认为是最负盛名的作家之一 prizes in literature.

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Careers & Outcomes

除了出版和制作数百部文学作品,我们的创意写作 MA/MFA毕业生会成为教授、编辑、教师、文学经纪人、 阅读系列的导演,电子游戏的编剧,高中教师, 书评人、自由撰稿人/编辑、公共关系或营销总监、 以及从事各种写作或与写作相关的工作.

Marlon James MA '06, Fiction

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Brian Fanelli MFA '10, Poetry

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Adrienne Pender MFA '11, Playwriting

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Morowa Yejide MFA '12, Fiction

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Nisha Sharma MFA '14, Fiction

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Leah Vernon MFA '15, Nonfiction

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我是为了1月份的实习而来的,社区体验和宣传的一样. 我能够在第一天就以一种我做梦都想不到的方式与老师们交流. My writing cohort sealed the deal.

安德烈·刘易斯·卡特MFA ' 18魔鬼和深蓝海之间的作者,出版 by Kaylie Jones Books, 2022.

Vibrant Writing Community

Our writing community is incredible. Successful writers in their own right, our faculty members,外部读者和顾问委员会成员聚集在一起支持和指导学生 in the program.

Notable names include:

  • Ibrahim Ahmad, Executive Editor at Viking Press
  • Beverly Donofrio, Riding in Cars with Boys
  • Susan Cartsonis, Resonate Entertainment
  • Kaylie Jones, Kaylie Jones Books
  • 刘宇昆,星云奖、雨果奖、轨迹奖、世界奇幻奖、幻想实验室奖得主
  • Tim Seibles, Poet Laureate of Virginia
  • Johnny Temple, Publisher at Akashic Press
  • Chris Tomasino, The Tomasino Agency
  • William J. Kennedy, Pulitzer Prize Winner
  • Ross Klavan, Tigerland
  • Marlon James MA ’06, A Brief History of Seven Killings
  • J. Michael Lennon, Norman Mailer: A Double Life

除了我们优秀的教员,董事会成员和外部读者,澳门赌场在线娱乐 created partnerships with several nationally known organizations.

Nationally Renowned

我们的课程经常被评为全国顶尖的创意写作课程之一.

  • Best Colleges“最佳在线创意写作硕士” (2023, #3)
  • College Rank最佳在线创意写作硕士课程 (2023, #10)
  • College Choice' Best Online MFA in Creative Writing Programs (2023, #4)

LitFest 2024

June 21 - 27

一个星期的文学阅读,讨论和庆祝书面文字! All LitFest 2024 events are free and open to the public.

Friday, June 21

Juneteenth Celebration of Black Writers

7 p.m.
Fenner Quadrangle
  • Hosted by Angelique Palmer
  • Mildred Mills, author of Daddy’s House
  • 莫尼克·弗朗兹(剧作家/散文家),《 Black Diaspora
  • R. 艾伦·布鲁克斯(图画小说家/漫画作家),《 Grieving Mall

Saturday, June 22

Journey of the Book

7 p.m.
Fenner Quadrangle

在新书发行时接受创意写作教员的采访

  • Gregory Fletcher (YA and playwright), author of Tom and Huck Sitting in a Tree
  • Jaclyn Fowler (novelist), author of Jack: The Almost True Story of the Molly Maguires
  • Jessica Goudeau (narrative non-fiction), author of 《我们是非法的:揭露德克萨斯州一个家庭的神话和移民》 (non-fiction)

Sunday, June 23

Faculty Reading

7 p.m.
Fenner Quadrangle
  • Christine Gelineau, poetry/nonfiction
  • Amanda Rabaduex (alumna), poetry
  • Phil Brady, poetry/nonfiction
  • Angelique Palmer, poetry/spoken word
  • Caroline Hayduk (alumna), poetry

Monday, June 24

Film and Talk-Back: Sitting in Bars with Cake

7 p.m.
Dorothy Dickson Darte Center
  • Screenwriter Audrey Shulman
  • Producer Susan Cartsonis

Tuesday, June 25

Faculty Reading

7 p.m.
Fenner Quadrangle
  • Teresa Friedman (alumna), novelist
  • Kaylie Jones, novelist/memoirist
  • Robert Mooney, novelist
  • Alexis Paige, non-fiction
  • Jeff Talarigo, novelist

Wednesday, June 26 (afternoon)

Special Event

4:30 p.m.
Jean and Paul Adams Commons (Henry学生中心2楼)

Q&电视主创/制作人Terri Edda Miller和Andrew Marlowe (Equalizer, Castle, Take Two)

Wednesday, June 26 (evening)

Playwrights’ Night

7 p.m.
Dorothy Dickson Darte Center
  • Nicole Pandolfo
  • Rachel Strayer
  • Bonnie Culver, playwright/novelist
  • 露丝·康纳斯和曼迪·彭宁顿,斯克兰顿边缘预演

Thursday, June 27 (afternoon)

Panel Discussion

4:30 p.m.
Dorothy Dickson Darte Center

Maureen Corrigan, book critic for NPR’s Fresh Air她将与杰西卡·古多和克里斯汀一起参加一个关于禁书的播客 蕾妮·米勒,《澳门赌场在线娱乐》的教员和联合主持人.”

Thursday, June 27 (evening)

Featured Reading

7 p.m.
FENNER QUADRANGLE
  • Megha Majumdar, author of A Burning
  • Barbara J. Taylor, author of Rain Breaks No Bones
  • Matt Bell, author of Appleseed and Refuse to Be Done
  • Rev. Shawn Amos, author of Ellis Johnson Might Be Famous and Cookies and Milk
  • Margaret Talbot, author and staff writer for the New Yorker