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Fiction Fiction Intensive

Do you have a chapter from a novel-in-progress in need of feedback? A draft of a short story striving to get to the next level? This workshop-style course will focus on thoughtful, detailed discussion of participants’ fiction. Workshops will be supplemented by exercises and readings designed to offer strategies for creating tension, complicating characters, writing realistic dialogue, and more. Please submit one story or chapter to the Conference by June 1. Instructor will provide detailed written critiques.

Advanced Submissions Requested (5000 words or less) by June 1, 2022.

Elise Juska is the author of five novels, including If We Had Known and The Blessings, which was selected for Barnes & Noble's Discover Great New Writers series, Entertainment Weekly's "Must List," and the Philadelphia Inquirer's Best Books of 2014. Her short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Ploughshares, The Gettysburg Review, The Missouri Review, The Hudson Review, Post Road, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the Alice Hoffman Prize from Ploughshares, and her short stories have been longlisted by The Best American Short Stories and Pushcart Prize anthologies. She is an Associate Professor at the University of the Arts, where she received the 2014 Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching.

CNF & Poetry Taking it Public: Expanding the Forum for Memoir Essays and Poems of Conscience in Times of Crisis

This multi-genre workshop will examine craft issues related to writing through and about crisis including intersectionality, performativity, and historical detail. This is a one-week generative workshop for poets and creative nonfiction writers based on prompts to bring new perspective to your writing. No matter how stalled or stagnant your creative life may feel, these strategies are meant to inspire, revive, and energize.

No Advanced Submissions Requested.

Artress Bethany White is a poet, essayist, and literary critic. She is the recipient of the Trio Award for her poetry collection My Afmerica (Trio House Press, 2019) and author of Survivor’s Guilt: Essays on Race and American Identity (New Rivers Press, 2020). Her prose and poetry have appeared in such journals as Harvard Review , POETRY , Solstice , Ecotone , Birmingham Poetry Review , Tupelo Quarterly , The Hopkins Review , Green Mountains Review , and the forthcoming anthology Why I Wrote This Poem: 62 Poets on Creating Their Works (McFarland, 2022). She is associate professor of English at East Stroudsburg University, teaches poetry and nonfiction workshops for the Rosemont College Summer Writer’s Retreat in Pennsylvania, and is nonfiction editor for Boston-based Pangyrus literary magazine. Check out her website at artressbethanywhite.com.

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Rosemont College

Pennsylvania, united states.

The graduate creative writing program at Rosemont College is unique for a number of reasons. We offer tracks in both poetry and prose. In prose, students can choose concentrations in creative non-fiction, short fiction, writing for young adults, novel writing, and dramatic writing. Rosemont publishes The Rathalla Review, our literary magazine, which students have the opportunity to write for and run. Because students in the creative writing program are interested in the publishing industry and vice versa, Rosemont created a 60-credit double-degree that awards an MA in publishing and an MFA in creative writing.

Additionally, all our faculty members are published and continue to gain experience in their respective fields. Other distinctive aspects of our program include the availability of graduate assistantships, exciting literature seminars, and monthly readings. While seminars focus on how writers write, our monthly readings give students the opportunity to share their work with the larger Philadelphia writing community.

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1400 Montgomery Avenue English Department, Graduate Studies Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania, United States 19010-1699 Phone: 610-527-0200 ext 2346 Email: [email protected] http://www.rosemont.edu/academics/graduate/creative-writing/index.php

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The graduate creative writing program at Rosemont College is unique for a number of reasons. We offer tracks in both poetry and prose. In prose, students can choose concentrations in creative non-fiction, short fiction, writing for children and young adults, novel writing, and dramatic writing. Rosemont publishes The Rathalla Review, our literary magazine, which students have the opportunity to write for and run. Because students in the creative writing program are interested in the publishing industry and vice versa, Rosemont created a 60-credit double-degree that awards an MA in publishing and an MFA in creative writing.

Christine Salvatore

Christine E. Salvatore received her MFA from The University of New Orleans. She currently teaches literature and creative writing at Stockton University, in the MFA Program at Rosemont College, and at a public high school in South Jersey. She is a Geraldine R. Dodge Poet and a regular faculty member for Murphy Writing of Stockton University. Her poetry has recently appeared or will appear in Diode, The Turnip Truck[s], The Fem, The Literary Review, The Cortland Review, Mead Journal, as well as others. More information can be found at www.christinesalvatore.com.

http://www.rosemont.edu/academics/graduate/creative-writing/faculty.php

Carla Spataro

Carla (C.J.) Spataro is the MFA program director at Rosemont College and the editorial director of Philadelphia Stories and PS Books. She is an award winning short story writer and a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grant winner. Her short fiction has appeared in Iron Horse Literary Review, Switchgrass Review, Pithead Chapel, Cahoodadoodaling, Permafrost, The Baltimore Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, and others. Poetry has appeared in Ovunque Siamo. Her work has also been anthologized in Another Breath, Forgotten Philadelphia, Extraordinary Gifts, and 50 Over 50. Several of her students have gone on to have books published by big five publishers and have won national awards.

Grant Clauser

Grant Clauser earned an MFA in poetry from Bowling Green State University (Ohio) in 1993 where he was a Richard Devine Fellow. He's worked for literary journals including the Mid-American Review, Janus, Toad Highway, and Cleaver. In 2010 he was selected as the Montgomery County Poet Laureate by Robert Bly. His poems have appeared in a variety of journals including The American Poetry Review, Cincinnati Poetry Review, The Literary Review, The Journal, Cortland Review, Southern Poetry Review, Greensboro Review, Seattle Review, Tar River Poetry and others. He's published five poetry collections: Muddy Dragon on the Road to Heaven, Winner of the Codhill Press Poetry Award; Reckless Constellations, winner of the Cider Press Review Editor’s Award; The Magician’s Handbook; Necessary Myths, winner of Dogfish Head Poetry prize; and The Trouble with Rivers. In 2014 he was a guest poet of the Sharjah International Book Fair in the United Arab Emirates. He's also a founding member of the poetry improv group No River Twice. His favorite dry fly is the Parachute Adams. His favorite nymph is a basic Hare’s Ear with a brass bead. For bass he sticks mostly to a Clouser Minnow (no relation) and sometimes a Murry Hellgrammite.

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Trish Rodriguez

Trish Rodriguez is a writer and editor who is currently the Fiction Editor of Philadelphia Stories. She is also a senior prose editor at Typehouse Literary Magazine. Her work has been published in Awakenings and Animal: A Beast of a Literary Magazine. She reads and writes in Media, PA.

https://litmagnews.substack.com/p/so-much-of-philadelphia-is-a-flavor

Camellia-Berry Grass

Camellia-Berry Grass (pronouns: they/them or she/her) is originally from rural Missouri, got their MFA in Tuscaloosa, and now lives & teaches writing in Philadelphia. They are the author of Hall of Waters (The Operating System, 2019). Their essays and poems appear in DIAGRAM, Waxwing, The Normal School, Barrelhouse, The Texas Review, BOAAT, Bedfellows, Phoebe, The Wanderer, and Sonora Review, among other publications, most of which appear under the name Berry Grass. They are a 2019 nominee for the Krause Essay Prize. Their chapbook, Collector's Item, was published in 2014 by Corgi Snorkel Press. They host Tragic: the Gathering -- an occasional transgender literature reading series in Philadelphia. They have previously served as Nonfiction Editor of Black Warrior Review, and Sundog Lit.

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Rathalla Review is the literary magazine for Rosemont College's Creative Writing MFA program. We are in search of vulnerable and honest creative works written by authors with a diverse range of life experiences.

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Rosemont College MA in Creative Writing

Creative Writing is a concentration offered under the writing studies major at Rosemont College. We’ve pulled together some essential information you should know about the master’s degree program in creative writing, including how many students graduate each year, the ethnic diversity of these students, whether or not the degree is offered online, and more.

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MFA in Creative Writing - Online

Embrace your passion for storytelling and learn the professional writing skills you'll need to succeed with our online MFA in Creative Writing. Write your novel or short story collection while earning a certificate in the Online Teaching of Writing or Professional Writing, with no residency requirement.

MA in English & Creative Writing

Refine your writing skills and take a step toward furthering your career with this online master's from Southern New Hampshire University.

Low-Residency MFA in Fiction and Nonfiction

Harness your passion for storytelling with SNHU's Mountainview Low-Residency MFA in Fiction and Nonfiction. In this small, two-year creative writing program, students work one-on-one with our distinguished faculty remotely for most of the semester but convene for weeklong intensive residencies in June and January. At residencies, students critique each other's work face-to-face, meet with major authors, agents and editors and learn how to teach at the college level.

How Much Does a Master’s in Creative Writing from Rosemont Cost?

Rosemont graduate tuition and fees.

During the 2019-2020 academic year, part-time graduate students at Rosemont paid an average of $0 per credit hour. No discount was available for in-state students. The average full-time tuition and fees for graduate students are shown in the table below.

Does Rosemont Offer an Online MA in Creative Writing?

Online degrees for the Rosemont creative writing master’s degree program are not available at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the Rosemont Online Learning page.

Rosemont Master’s Student Diversity for Creative Writing

Male-to-female ratio.

Of the students who received their master’s degree in creative writing in 2019-2020, 62.5% of them were women. This is less than the nationwide number of 66.6%.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

Racial-ethnic minority graduates* made up 25.0% of the creative writing master’s degrees at Rosemont in 2019-2020. This is about the same as the nationwide number of 24%.

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

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This course provides craft exercises and research strategies for the writer of book length fiction manuscripts. Narrative and prose theory along with hands-on exercises provide the basis for the instruction in developing a knowledge of and facility with the craft of writing prose, while instruction in book research focuses on going beyond Google to discover original transcripts, conduct interviews, scour through local libraries, take trips, find experts, and so on.

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As Jodi Picoult says, "You can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page." Take a creative writing class this semester!

Grossmont College offers Southern California’s largest and best community college Creative Writing Program, with top-notch classes, nurturing workshops, and talented instructors to challenge you to sculpt your voice into the next wave of cutting edge literature. We offer courses tailored to different writing skill levels, writing and editing experience, and writing genres. You can also earn a Certificate in Creative Writing with your English degree. Our courses fall into several categories: general creative writing classes, workshop sequences, and production and editing classes. Being enrolled in a Grossmont College Creative Writing class provides you with exclusive opportunities to meet nationally and internationally renowned authors, participate in readings and literary events, publish your work, and even edit a literary journal.

Visit " About Our Program " to see our full catalog of workshops and courses.

Visit grossmont.edu/laf to learn more about the 28th Annual LAF's guest authors and events, or click the calendar below.

SPRING 2024 CREATIVE WRITING COURSES

ENGL 126: INTRO TO CREATIVE WRITING

section 3045  (Online), 3 cr., with Julie Cardenas

section 7263, M/W 2PM-3:20PM, Rm 51-577, 3 cr., with Daniela Sow

ENGL 130-133: SHORT FICTION WRITING I-IV

sections 7266-7269, W 6:30-9:35PM, Rm 51-584, 3 cr.,   with   Enrique Cervantes

ENGL 140-143: POETRY WRITING I-IV  

sections 7274-7277 (Online), 3 cr., with Karl Sherlock

ENGL 145-148: ACORN REVIEW: EDITING AND PRODUCTION I-IV

sections 4561-4664 (Online) , 3 cr., with Julie Cardenas

ENGL 175-178: NOVEL WRITING I-IV  

sections 2734-2737 (Online) , 3 cr., with Rich Farrell

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The single most important show of support you can give the Grossmont College Creative Writing Program is to fill our classes and keep our workshops thriving. Whether it’s weeks before the semester starts or weeks before it ends, less than robust enrollment can cause what is potentially the most important and inspiring class you might ever take to be put in the cross-hairs for cancellation. Safeguard these courses and your chances to work with some of the best creative writing instructors in San Diego. Invite a friend and hold your seats by registering early .

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The mission of the Grossmont College Creative Writing Program is to serve and engage students, faculty, and the community actively through a rich variety of readings and other literary events, and to cultivate a diverse literary community that celebrates and promotes writing for the vital role it holds in our culture.

We also host the The Literary Arts Festival, conducted annually at the end of April's "National Poetry Month," a week-long calendar of events celebrating authors and the transformative power of creative writing in all its diverse forms. Each year, the Creative Writing Program hosts award-winning writers as one-of-a-kind,  free-of-charge opportunities to experience literature beyond the page. All the details for 2022 will be available on this site!

Please consider donating to the Creative Writing Fund of The Foundation for Grossmont and Cuyamaca Colleges to help the Creative Writing Program promote literary arts through continued sponsorship of opportunities and events like the Literary Arts Festival. Visit " Foundation Giving " right now to securely make a tax deductible charitable contribution. Your support helps us open up worlds of creativity to our students and community. Thank you!

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High School Students Capture Awards for Creative Writing 

April 9, 2024

Two high school students achieved top honors in Anne Arundel Community College’s inaugural Young Writers Award . Savannah Schweitzer from Northeast High School won the fictional short story category with her piece titled "Fallen Apples.” Michaela Osei from Chesapeake Science Point earned first place in the poetry category for her poem, "Places I Never Knew."

"We're thrilled to offer this award and to encourage young people throughout the county to pursue creative writing,” said Garrett Brown , AACC professor and coordinator of creative writing . “I see it as our mission as the community's college to offer these kinds of opportunities in the too-often-unsupported literary arts."   

The Young Writers Award celebrates outstanding literary pieces from Anne Arundel County students in grades 11 and 12. The judges for this year’s awards included AACC English faculty members Johnny Lew, Ph.D., Katy D’Angelo, Ph.D., and KT Perkins .  

The judges noted that Schweitzer’s story “has an incredible opening line that sets up an emotional metaphor that carries throughout the piece. The writer demonstrates maturity of style, subtly and effectively communicates character development and theme.”  

They commended Osei’s poem for how it “uses concrete imagery and employs skillful use of line and stanza structure to enhance its visual and descriptive language.”  

Both winners will receive a cash prize and their works will be published in Amaranth, AACC’s award-winning journal of literature and the arts. Additionally, Schweitzer, Osei, their high school principals, English teachers and counselors have been invited to Amaranth’s May 9 release celebration.   

Amberlynn Gong from Severna Park High School and Evelyn Holiday from Annapolis High School were the runners-up in the short story category. Maika Ogawa from Crofton High School was the poetry category runner-up.  

Submissions for the 2025 Young Writers Award will open Sept. 15, 2024. 

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Program Code: CRWE.S.AA • Credit Hours: 61

Description.

The Creative Writing Program is designed specifically for students interested in studying how to write original creative work, including poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Students hone their writing skills and learn about the world of publishing in this program, as well. Graduates of this program are well-prepared to transfer to a four-year college or university to continue their studies. The curriculum fulfills the freshman and sophomore general education requirements of most four-year colleges and universities. . As part of this degree program, students must complete the requirements of the Ohio Transfer 36 in order to graduate.

Program Requirements

• BIS 1120 - Introduction to Software Applications
• COM 2206 - Interpersonal Communication OR
• COM 2211 - Effective Public Speaking OR
• COM 2225 - Small Group Communication
• ENG 1101 - English Composition I
• ENG 1201 - English Composition II
• ENG 2250 - Introduction to Creative Writing
• ENG 2262 - Writing to Publish

Choose three courses from:

• ENG 2255 - Poetry Writing AND/OR
• ENG 2256 - Fiction Writing AND/OR
• ENG 2257 - Creative Writing: Nonfiction AND/OR
• ENG 2259 - Novel Writing
• LIT 2220 - Introduction to Literature
• LIT 2217 - Images of Women in Literature OR
• LIT 2234 - Literature of Africa, Asia, & Latin America OR
• LIT 2236 - African-American Literature
• OT36 Arts & Humanities Elective    (at least one non-LIT)  6   Cr. Hr(s).
• OT36 Mathematics Elective     3   Cr. Hr(s).
• OT36 Natural & Physical Sciences Elective     6   Cr. Hr(s).
• OT36 Social & Behavioral Sciences Elective     (at least two disciplines)  9   Cr. Hr(s).
• Language Elective 4   Cr. Hr(s).

Language Elective 4 Cr. Hr.

• CHN 1101 - Elementary Chinese I
• FRE 1101 - Elementary French I
• GER 1101 - Elementary German I
• JPN 1101 - Elementary Japanese I
• SPA 1101 - Elementary Spanish I