Overview

Our students publish—recently with Random House, Algonquin Books, St Martin’s, Alice James Books, Bloomsbury, Anhinga Press and Louisiana State University Press—and win important prizes and fellowships, including the National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry, the Walter E. Dakin Fellowship from The Sewanee Writers’ Conference and the Georgia Author of the Year Award.

Our faculty at at Georgia State University include Danielle Cadena Deulen, Beth Gylys, John Holman, Sheri Joseph and Josh Russell. Visiting writers & editors enrich the program by giving readings and leading workshops and Q&As.

Careers

English - Creative Writing alumni hold full-time positions at Texas A&M University, Spelman College, the University of Rhode Island, Norfolk State University, University of West Georgia, Augustana College, California Polytechnic University, Fort Lewis College, the Savannah College of Art and Design, and elsewhere.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Fiction Writing
Form and Theory of Literary Craft in Fiction
Contemporary Fiction Craft
Form and Theory of Literary Craft in Poetry
Poetry Writing
Form and Theory of Literary Craft in Poetry
Contemporary Poetry
20th-Century American and British Poetry Craft
Form and Theory of Literary Craft in Fiction

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 60 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-08-25 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-02-15 00:00:00

Language

English

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Credits

50 SCH

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Atlanta, United States

Disciplines

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

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Other requirements

General requirements

A master’s degree in English or a closely related discipline from an accredited college or university;
A 10-20 page critical writing sample;
A portfolio including a minimum of 10 poems; or two or three works of fiction totaling no fewer than 30 and no more than 50 pages. One of the two or three fiction samples may be an excerpt of a longer work (novel, novella, etc.), and fiction samples may include short-short/flash fiction, but we ask that the applicant send at least one complete, stand-alone example of short fiction of 15 pages or more.

Tuition Fees

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Non-residents

32332 USD / year

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Out-of-State

31726 USD / year

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Domestic

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In-State

9790 USD / year

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Living costs

Atlanta

United States

1213 - 2208 USD / month

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