Overview

The Creative Writing degree by The University of Arizona can also prepare you for positions in marketing, journalism, or education and careers requiring solid communication skills and the ability to give and receive feedback.

Fully funded via graduate teaching assistantships, you can teach in an undergraduate classroom, where you can immediately apply what you're learning. Assistantships include salary, health insurance and a complete tuition waiver.

Key Features

A fully funded (at $21,750/year) three-year programme in three genres (poetry, fiction, and nonfiction) with active encouragement to work across and between them.

Funding via Graduate Teaching Assistantship positions (typical teaching load: 1-2, 2-1, 2-1), with opportunities to teach creative writing workshops.

An active prose and poetry series of visiting writers and editors.

Excellent student-teacher ratio.

A challenging, supportive, and dynamic atmosphere in a super-literary, culturally vibrant, and progressive border city.

An extremely active and critically acclaimed faculty.

Additional funding opportunities for research and travel

MFA thesis defense that may include outside readers. Past outside readers have included such writers as Jenny Boully, Brandon Shimoda, Gary Paul Nabhan, Steven Church, Luís Alberto Urrea, and Kim Stanley Robinson.

Opportunities to work on nationally- and internationally-known literary magazines, websites, and presses

Opportunities to engage in writing and research on the US-Mexico border through the Southwest Field Studies in Writing Program

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Programme Structure

Courses included:

Four Creative Writing workshops in Fiction, Poetry, or Creative Nonfiction, depending upon genre of admittance.

Four Creative Writing Craft Seminars: At least one in genre of admittance and one in another genre.

Electives

MFA Colloquium

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Duration

Full-time
- 36 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-08-24 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-12-15 00:00:00

Language

English

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Credits

42 SCH

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Tucson, United States

Disciplines

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Academic requirements

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Other requirements

General requirements

Manuscript:

Poetry applicants submit from 6 to 10 poems

Fiction applicants should submit up to 30 pages (typically a couple short stories or an excerpt of a longer work)

Nonfiction applicants should submit up to 30 pages (typically a couple essays or an excerpt of a longer work).

Statement of Purpose

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Resume

Tuition Fees

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Non-residents

23400 USD / year

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Out-of-State

23400 USD / year

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In-State

12700 USD / year

≈ 12700 USD / year

Living costs

Tucson

United States

830 - 1140 USD / month

The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.

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