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The Master's in Creative Writing and
Literature prepares talented students to be poets,
novelists, playwrights, essayists, short story
writers, reviewers, editors, and teachers. One of
the department's largest and most vibrant tracks,
the program offers creative writing workshops in
every genre, and features individualized attention
from highly published, award-winning faculty.
Creative writing students receive a both broad and
specialized education in the traditions of English
and American literature and take a comprehensive
examination similar to that of students in the
Literature track.
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Visiting Writers
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Editorial Opportunities
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Assistance |
Faculty
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Information
- The
Visiting Writers Program
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The centerpiece of the Creative Writing
track is the Visiting
Writers Program, which each year beings to campus nationally and internationally known writers. Recent visitors include E. Annie Proulx, Patricia Hampl, Bret Lott, Barry Lopez, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Michael S. Harper, Judith Kitchen, Yusef Komunyakaa, William Kittredge, Ron Carlson, and Mary Karr. These visitors give public readings and lectures, visit classes, and read and discuss student works in individual tutorial sessions.
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- Opportunities
for Editorial Experience
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Students in the Creative Writing track
also have the opportunity to serve on the
editorial staff of Touchstone,
K-State's annual literary journal, or to serve
as interns with KSU's Beach Museum of Art.
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- Alumni
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KSU creative writing students have gone
on to publish highly acclaimed books, such as De
McGloshen's Shadow of a Bird Ascending,
to win prestigious awards such as the Flannery
O'Connor Prize for Short Fiction (Debra Monroe
for her book, The Source of Trouble), and
to edit prominent literary journals such as
Cimarron Review and Gulf Coast.
Current and former graduate students have
recently published in excellent literary
journals such as The Paris Review, The
Georgia Review, Quarterly West, Mid-American
Review, Nimrod, and New England
Review. In addition, KSU students have won
national acclaim during their graduate careers
including recent winners of the Intro Journals
Project sponsored by the Associated Writing
Programs. KSU M.A.s are routinely accepted into
the nation's finest terminal degree programs
(both M.F.A. and Ph.D.) that emphasize creative
writing. In the past five years, KSU Creative
Writing M.A.s have accepted tenure-track or
other full-time teaching positions at more than
a dozen institutions across the country.
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- Financial
Assistance and Awards
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Financial assistance available to
incoming M.A. students includes teaching
assistantships and graduate school fellowships,
Seaton Fellowships in Creative Writing, as well
as a number of awards which are given for
outstanding works written by Master's students
as part of their program of study at KSU. For
more information about financial aid, go to the
Graduate
Studies page.
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- Workshop Atmosphere
and Community
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Our creative writing workshops sometimes
include students from our three other M.A.
tracks (literature, composition and rhetoric,
and cultural studies). However, we deliberately
limit enrollment in our workshops to no more
than fifteen students. Our workshops are
demanding, but their atmospheres are congenial
and supportive.
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Overall, we have an active, supportive
community of writers both in the university and
the surrounding area. Manhattan is located in
the Flint Hills, a green, hilly section of
Kansas with the Kansas River and two large lakes
nearby. Less than ten miles away, the Konza
Prairie is the largest remnant of tallgrass
prairie in the United States. The town itself
has about 50,000 residents, not including the
20,000 students at KSU.
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Writing Faculty
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Elizabeth
Dodd
Elizabeth Dodd is Professor of English, and Director of the Creative Writing Program. She earned an M.F.A. and a Ph.D., both from Indiana University. She is the author of four books: Like Memory, Caverns and Archetypal Light (poems); The Veiled Mirror and the Woman Poet (criticism); and most recently Prospect: Journeys & Landscapes (nonfiction essays). A recipient of a Kansas Arts Commission Fellowship in poetry, she is a contributing editor to Tar River
Poetry and a member of the editorial
advisory board for ISLE:
Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature
and Environment.
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Jonathan
Holden
Jonathan Holden (Ph.D., University of
Colorado) is University Distinguished
Professor of English and Poet-in-Residence
of Kansas State University. His most
recent book is Guns and Boyhood in
America, A Memoir of Growing Up in the
Fifties, published in the University
of Michigan's Poets-on-Poetry Series. Dr.
Holden has won several national poetry
awards, including the 1995 Vassar Miller
Prize, the 1985 Juniper Prize, the 1992
AWP Award Series, and the 1972 Devins
Award. His most recent critical book is
The Fate of American Poetry, from
the University of Georgia Press
(1991).
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Susan
Jackson Rodgers
Susan Jackson Rodgers is an assistant professor teaching fiction writing. Her short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in a variety of literary magazines including Nimrod, StoryQuarterly, Beloit Fiction Journal, Prairie Schooner, North American Review and Glimmer Train. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize Special Mention and a Kansas Arts Commission Fellowship. Her story "Bodies" won the 2002 Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition. Her collection of stories, The Trouble With You Is, won the Mid-List First Series Award in Short Fiction and will be published in the fall of 2003.
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- For
More Information
- For application materials or for other
information about the Creative Writing Program,
Visiting Writers Program, or Flint Hills
Literary Festival, contact:
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- Elizabeth Dodd, Director
- Creative Writing Program
- Department of English
- English/Counseling Services Building
- Kansas State University
- Manhattan, KS 66506-6501
- (785) 532-0384 Office
- (785) 532-2192 FAX
- E-mail: edodd@ksu.edu
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