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The Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing 2019 spring priority application deadline is September 1.
What’s unique about OSU-Cascades' ecological approach to the craft of writing is its investment in the whole writer. The geographies—social, spiritual, physical, aesthetic, political—each writer negotiates to get to the page are as various as the texts that give each one of us a purchase on this art. Together in the MFA in Creative Writing program we teach ourselves to work—at least some of the time—outside our comfort zones. By cultivating a passion for what’s difficult about this art, as well the courage to celebrate our own and each others' adventures in self-expression, we tend the practical skills and whimsical experiments that grow writers with healthy writing lives.
This two-year, low-residency program enrolls student cohorts each fall and spring for intensive residencies at Caldera - our program's hallmark. Supported by faculty mentors, you will master the techniques of craft in your genre, develop a sustainable writing praxis, practice what it means to be a literary citizen, and learn about what's really exciting in contemporary literature. You conclude the program with a thesis, a creative piece of publishable quality and literary merit.
MFA students select a genre, but write and study across genres to deepen their craft and understanding. Students may also write cross- or hybrid-genre theses.
The Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at Oregon State University in Corvallis has a long tradition of excellence. Recognizing the need to bring an outstanding education to students with different life stories, faculty on the Corvallis and Cascades campuses partnered to bring a low-residency Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing to Central Oregon in 2013. Here in the OSU-Cascades low-residency MFA, we continue that tradition of excellence, growing creative writers with exemplary publication records, and a passion for loving this world, through art.
Learn more about earning an MFA in Creative Writing at OSU-Cascades in Bend.
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Have questions about the application and admission process? Contact Jordon Zardinejad, our graduate recruitment and program support coordinator.
MFA student Yolanda Gomez was recently awarded the 2018-2019 Thurgood Marshall Graduate Scholarship. This prestigious award from the Graduate School is given to one OSU graduate student each year.
Core Faculty novelist T. Geronimo Johnson was recently awarded the Rome Prize.
