Creative Writing
English Department
Master of Arts Degree Program
The Creative Writing Program at The University of Texas at Austin offers two-year Master of Arts degrees in poetry and fiction. Our program is complemented by a nationally-renowned department of literature, the UT English Department, and one of the world's largest archives for twentieth-century literature, the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center.
Recent M.A. graduates of our program have published novels with W. W. Norton and Scribners, have won the Bakeless Prize both in poetry and fiction, and have won the John Graves Essay Prize and Phillis Smart Young Prize in Poetry. All of our students receive funding for their studies through teaching assistantships, fellowships, and funding. These funding opportunities are intended to complement the academic and scholarly training that students receive in graduate courses, and is thus an important means by which the graduate program is able to produce scholarly teachers and writers.
Recent Visiting Faculty
James Hynes• Frank Moorhouse• Mylene Dressler
Kent Nelson • Ana Menendez • Lisa Sandlin
Hayan Charara • Karen M. Olsson • Patrick McGrath
Fiction Faculty
Michael Adams • Oscar Casares • Laura Furman
Zulfikar Ghose • Elizabeth Harris • Rolando Hinojosa-Smith
Peter LaSalle • James Magnuson
Poetry Faculty
Kurt Heinzelman • Judith Kroll • Van Jordan
David Wevill • Thomas Whitbread