Books by Emerson Alumni
- Erin Jones, Tinfoil Crowns
- Laura van den Berg, l Hold a Wolf by the Ears
- Ivelisse Rodriguez, Love War Stories
- Noé Álvarez, Spirit Run
Curriculum
The MFA program requires 48 credit hours:
20 credits of writing workshop courses (of which 16 credits must be in the student’s concentration genre)
12 credits of Literature courses
12 credits of department electives
4-credit master’s thesis
Required Workshop Courses
Poetry students are required to take 16 credits in either of the following workshops (students may take genre workshops more than once):
WR 605 Poetry Workshop WR 610 Form in Poetry
Nonfiction students are required to take 16 credits in any of the following workshops (students may take genre workshops more than once):
WR 613 Nonfiction Workshop WR 655 Writing the Nonfiction Book PB 676 Magazine Writing PB 687 Column Writing WR 515 Topics in Nonfiction
Graduate Admission
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