What Can Lindenwood’s MFA in Writing Do for You?
What Can Lindenwood’s MFA in Writing Do for You?
The Master of Fine Arts in Writing at Lindenwood University is a vibrant, robust program of study that affords aspiring writers opportunities to work with accomplished practitioners of craft in order to grow as creative thinkers. But in a sea of hundreds of creative writing programs, what makes Lindenwood’s special?
Our program has no residency requirement, meaning students from anywhere in the country can complete their degree entirely online. While we offer classes with a virtual live session in each of the fall and spring terms, students are also able to take classes without ever logging into a group meeting or coming to campus! Our courses are designed with working adults in mind, offering flexible completion windows for assignments and courseloads that balance rigor with a recognition that many of our students have full personal and professional lives.
Pave Your Own Path
We allow students to forge their own paths, making for a truly personalized program. Students can choose to focus on fiction, poetry, nonfiction, or writing for young adult and middle grade readers—or to choose no focus at all! But even within an area of emphasis, students have tons of flexibility when choosing their courses, with specialized topics in areas like writing horror, fantasy, science fiction, lyric essays, sonnets, and more. We are constantly creating new classes; recent additions to our program include courses on writing interconnected stories, the prose of Margaret Atwood, and a mixed-audience workshop for writers of both young adult fiction and stories for middle grade readers.
Leave the Program With Real Experience
In addition, we support the university’s mission of “Real Experience. Real Success.” through our many courses in publishing and editing; students can receive course credit as editorial assistants for The Lindenwood Review, reading submissions and helping determine issue content. Through this experience, students not only have editorial experience that can give them a leg-up on the job market, they also get an insight into what happens to creative work once it’s in the publication pipeline.
We offer other courses on publishing as well so that students feel prepared to submit their writing to magazines, agents, and presses during and after their time in the program. Whether a student wants to pursue traditional publishing with an agent and literary press, or forge their own path through self-publishing as an independent writer, or wants to learn about marketing oneself and creating a practical brand identity, we have hands-on courses that will leave any writer with the tools and materials necessary for success. We also host talks with working writers and offer webinars on applying for academic teaching jobs.
Apply to Lindenwood’s MFA in Writing Program Today!
The Lindenwood MFA is a vibrant, community-oriented program where our goal is to help you tell your story, develop your voice, and launch your writing life—whatever that looks like to and for you.
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