I’ve stumbled on some information for a proposed new low-residency MFA program at Ashland University in Ashland, OH. Looks like they’re hoping to get off the ground in 2007, with a program designed for writers of poetry and nonfiction. If you want to read the extensive proposal (apparently written for an Ashland University audience), click here. It’s a PDF document.
These low-res programs just keep on multiplying. Here’s the latest one I’ve discovered: a program in fiction and non-fiction at Southern New Hampshire University.
Among the new developments for writers in 2006 will be the launch of another low-residency MFA in Creative Writing Program. This time, Pine Manor College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, will serve as the program’s home. Concentrations will include fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and writing for children and young adults. For more information, you can now visit the program’s website.
They’re back online! You can check in with the UNO Low Residency MFA Program here.
It’s not quite the conventional “low-residency” program, but it isn’t a typical “residential” program either. The Sewanee School of Letters, which will enroll its first class in the summer of 2006, will offer both the M.A. degree in English and American Literature and the M.F.A. in Creative Writing. According to an e-mail from the School’s Coordinator, Margaret D. Binnicker, “Both programs are designed for completion in 4 or 5 summers. Classes will be held in June and July each summer on the campus of the University of the South (usually known as Sewanee), atop the Cumberland Plateau in southeastern Tennessee.” There’s no website yet, but you can find out more by writing to Ms. Binnicker at The University of the South, 735 University Avenue, Sewanee, TN 37383.
ADDED JANUARY 16, 2006:
The website is now available. Check it out here.