Overview

In a given semester, students from the Writing - Poetry program at Columbia University participate in a hands-on, intense, and scrupulously supportive workshop while also enrolling in seminars, lectures, and Master Classes designed to stimulate and expand their creative aspirations and to deepen their critical engagement with the art. Aesthetic diversity prevails at Columbia—there is no such subgenre as the “Columbia Poem”—as does an authentic and profound sense of community.

The goal of the program is to help students to realize the best version of the poet they know themselves to be. Accordingly, their experience at Columbia culminates with the Thesis Workshop— the most intense delving into their work—in which each student meets weekly with a faculty mentor and a small number of cohorts to critique his or her growing body of work, to discuss its further development, and to shape it into a prelude to a first book of poems.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Translation Workshop
Speculative Nonfiction: Speculation, Invention, and Innovation
William Faulkner and World Fiction
Avant-Garde Writing and Movements
The Comma Sutra: Grammar, Syntax, and Praxis
Unhinged Narrators
Contemporary Politics and the Novel

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 24 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-09-02 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-01-06 00:00:00

Language

English

TOEFL^® IBT

100

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Credits

60 SCH

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Manhattan, United States

Disciplines

Creative Writing View 385 other Masters in Creative Writing in United States

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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

TOEFL^® IBT

100

Schedule TOEFL®

Other requirements

General requirements

Essay: Choose a work of literature that was written and published within the last ten years and write a 1,000 word essay in response to it.
Personal Statement: No more than two double-spaced pages.
Fiction: No more than 25 double-spaced pages
Nonfiction: No more than thirty double-spaced pages of nonfiction of literary quality--one or a combination of works of memoir, personal essay, opinion, reportage, biography, and/or criticism.
Poetry: No more than ten single-spaced pages of poetry, with no more than one poem per page.

Tuition Fees

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Non-residents

77840 USD / year

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Out-of-State

77840 USD / year

≈ 77840 USD / year
Domestic

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In-State

77840 USD / year

≈ 77840 USD / year

Additional Details

International Student Fee - $170 Per semester for all international students

Living costs

Manhattan

United States

2638 - 5751 USD / month

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Start dates & application deadlines

Language

Credits

Delivered

Campus Location

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Academic requirements

English requirements

Other requirements

General requirements

Tuition Fees

International Applies to you

Domestic

Additional Details

Living costs

Manhattan

Financing

Funding

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