Creative Writing Program
The Creative Writing Program at Boise State University offers a variety of degrees to meet your needs and interests. At the undergraduate level we offer both a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Fine Arts as well as our unique Narrative Arts BFA, the only degree of its kind in the nation. With award-winning faculty, our program offers strong mentorship and intensive study in the genre tracks of fiction, creative non-fiction and poetry. At the Graduate Level, the MFA in Poetry or Fiction at Boise State University is a nationally ranked, three-year, fully funded program.Â
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Our award-winning faculty offer workshops in Fiction, Poetry, Creative Non-Fiction and translation. Our Form and Theory classes provide a strong foundation in the history of each genre, with new topics offered each semester. Students can also get first-hand experience working on a journal, studying with editors of the renowned and award-winning Idaho Review. Our workshops offer an intimate and supportive environment in which to focus on craft and revision.
Our Hemingway Center Reading Series brings some of the most renowned national and international authors to campus every semester, including such luminaries as Peter Gizzi, Denis Johnson, Alice Notley, Terrance Hayes, Joy Williams and local favorite Anthony Doerr. The program is also home to Free Poetry which publishes books and chapbooks by many of today’s leading poets, offered free of charge. Books include collections of essays, interviews, translations and poetry.
MFA in Creative Writing
The MFA Program in Creative Writing offers degree tracks in fiction and poetry, emphasizing the art and craft of literary writing and concentrating on the student’s written work. Close work with faculty and visiting writers is encouraged through seminars, conferences, and classroom interaction during the three-year course, the third year of which is normally devoted to thesis preparation.
Students who intend to pursue a career in teaching literature and writing at the college level have the opportunity to study the pedagogy of creative writing. Also offered are classes in the craft of literary publishing, with coursework in the production of a literary annual The Idaho Review. Internships and graduate assistantships are available. The program also publishes Free Poetry, featuring essays and poetry from today’s leading poets.
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