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Dec 02, 2024
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2024-2025 Graduate Catalog
Creative Writing, M.F.A.
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Return to: 3220 Department of English
The Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing is a terminal degree that prepares students to write and to teach at the college level. It also provides students an excellent foundation if they choose to continue their graduate work at the doctoral level. Upon attaining the M.F.A. degree, students will have acquired a productive specific knowledge of their chosen genre/area of specialization (either Poetry or Fiction). Any student who receives more than one C during the program will be dropped from the M.F.A. program.
The M.F.A. student must complete satisfactorily a minimum of 36 hours of graduate coursework (12 courses), plus at least 6 hours of thesis research credit.
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Degree Requirements
All Poetry and Fiction workshops (ENGL 8020 Poetry Writing, ENGL 8030 Fiction Writing), creative writing craft courses (ENGL 8201 Contemporary Poetry, ENGL 8202 Contemporary Fiction Craft), and form and theory coursework (ENGL 8160 Form and Theory of Literary Craft) must be completed at Georgia State University during the degree program.
Thesis
Shortly before, or directly after completing all required Creative Writing coursework, and no later than the semester before a student plans to graduate, the student must submit to the thesis director, and to the Director of Creative Writing, a written proposal that describes the thesis project. The M.F.A. thesis must be a minimum of 50 pages of creative writing for a manuscript of poems or a minimum of 150 pages of creative writing for a manuscript of prose fiction. In addition, M.F.A. theses must include an introduction or an afterword that discusses the student’s approaches, styles, methods, and influences.
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