Announcing distinguished new faculty:

Poets Gaylord Brewer, Nickole Brown, and Jeffrey Skinner, along with fiction writers Tommy Hays and Julia Watts, have joined our MFA faculty. For more information on these talented authors and gifted teachers, visit our faculty biographies page.

 

Important announcement regarding costs for out-of-state students:

In an effort to alleviate financial burdens on out-of-state students and to ensure the availability of a high-quality education to students from a wide range of financial backgrounds, we have arranged a reduction in costs for out-of-state students. Read More...

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The Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing

• An affordable MFA at one of Kentucky's most prominent public universities
• One-to-one study with prize-winning faculty mentors
• Two-year 48-credit-hour program, with four intensive 9-day residencies
• Situated near The Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area

The low-residency MFA at Murray State allows student writers to work on their craft where they live while workshopping their writing online or by traditional mail with prize-winning writers. Twice a year, in July and January, students attend a 9-day residency at MSU to join a community of writers for intensive study, workshops, readings, and lectures. More...

 

Check out the new Program video on YouTube here.

The Winter 2010 issue of New Madrid is now available. More...

MSU now offering concentration in Writing for Young People.

Summer 2010 Residency preview here.

A Boston native and former Peace Corps Volunteer, Ann Neelon is a graduate of the MFA program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and the author of the book Easter Vigil, winner of the Anhinga Prize for Poetry and the RPCV Writers and Readers Award. She has been a Wallace Stegner Fellow as well as a Jones Lecturer in Poetry at Stanford University. She is also the winner of an Al Smith Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council, and fellowships from the Kentucky Foundation for Women, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and Yaddo Artists Colony. She is the editor of the national literary journal New Madrid, published through Murray State University's MFA Program. More...