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A Skilful MFA Program is Hard to Find

A good MFA programme is hard to find, but we believe the MFA Programme at Georgia College and State Academy in Milledgeville, Georgia offers unique opportunities for MFA students defended to the craft and purpose of creative writing. GCSU'south famous alumna, Flannery O'Connor, lived in Milledgeville on her farm, Andalusia, and of our cute, Southern boondocks, she wrote "When in Rome, do as you washed in Milledgeville." Our MFA students certainly go a lot done in their three years in Milledgeville.

What makes us unique? We take pride in the fact that the MFA Program at Georgia College is a fully-funded, full-residency 3-year MFA program. All students admitted to our MFA program receive a Graduate Assistantship for all iii years that includes a stipend and tuition remission. Self-funded students are accepted in special circumstances. We offer everything you could find at flagship country universities, but because we are office of a minor, public Liberal Arts academy, our students are immediately welcomed into a close-knit, creative customs. We sponsor a Visiting Writers series, bringing nationally-renowned writers to campus each semester, as well every bit a graduate pupil reading series. Our award-winning faculty piece of work closely with students not just as workshop teachers, just equally professional mentors.

The MFA Program offers workshops in fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry, and because we believe in expanding creative possibility and passions for our students, nosotros crave students to have cross-genre workshops. Students may write their thesis in fiction, poetry or creative nonfiction. In addition to workshops, students have artistic writing seminars in Poesy & Poetics or Prose Forms, instruction classes on the instruction of writing, and courses on literature and special topics.

Additionally, nosotros offer courses in journal design and editing, so students get hand-on publishing and graphic design experience. Students are able to put their practical skills to creative and purposeful good employ while serving as members of the editorial staff ofArts & Letters, our national literary journal, and one of the premier journals of the Southeast.

Nosotros are fully-funded: all students receive total tuition remission also as a Graduate Assistantship. As function of this assistantship, students gain existent-world teaching experience, and work at our Writing Middle as tutors, teach undergraduate Composition and Introduction to Artistic Writing Courses, and teach in our Early College Plan which is modeled on the Writers in the Schools Program. This real world education experience is essential for those students who hope to continue with instruction careers and/or community service careers.  We also participate in the Peace Corps Paul D. Coverdell Fellows Program which offers assistantships to Peace Corps volunteers.

Finally, the Arts & Letters Journal Editing Fellowship is open to applicants with at least 1 year of experience in journal publishing and/or editing, desktop publishing and design (preferably with InDesign), and/or marketing and promotion (including social media). The Fellowship offers recipients the opportunity to farther develop both editorial and managerial skills over their iii years in the MFA programme, working closely with Arts & Letters' Editor and Art Managing director (for more than information most this specific fellowship, refer data nether Assistantships).

Faculty and graduate students alike all practise what we preach and teach at GCSU!

Our 42-hour program is designed to be a three-year program (although other options may exist possible for those students that already accept an MA Caste) and most students follow a plan that emphasizes form piece of work in the offset yr and thesis work in the second and third years.

We welcome you to larn more than well-nigh our admission application process and opportunities for graduate assistantships and other financial aid.

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DEGREE REQUIREMENTS

Application Process

Prospective students for our Principal of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program normally utilise late fall/early winter for the following fall semester. Applications must be complete by Feb.1 for students who wish to be considered for an MFA assistantship (learn more about assistantships and other financial aid available to graduate students).

Awarding Process, Part One:

Domestic Applicants:
Submit the completed on-line graduate application ($35 fee) and required materials toGraduate Admissions. Application and required materials must be submitted by February i :

• The completed on-line graduate application plus $35 fee to Graduate Admissions.
• Three letters of recommendation are required from teachers, writers, or other professionals who tin attest to your potential for graduate report. These must attached to the application or emailed to grad-admit@gcsu.edu. Personal email addresses are non accepted. The email must exist from a professional business, institution, or organisation (for case, name@university.edu, or proper noun@business organisation.com; Non Gmail, yahoo, or other personal web email addresses) and the letter should be sent as an attachment. If the recommender does non have an e-mail with professional affiliation (i.eastward., has a personal e-mail), and so the recommendation letter must exist mailed as a hard copy directly past the recommender to the Graduate Studies office with recommender's signature across the envelope'southward seal:
                                              Georgia College
  The Graduate School
  123 Southward Clarke St.
  Campus Box 107
  Milledgeville, GA 31061
• OFFICIAL undergraduate or graduate transcripts (even if still in progress). If you are in your last year of undergraduate studies, you lot can still be admitted to the program, though final admission volition exist contingent upon receiving final transcripts upon your graduation from your undergraduate establishment.

Questions? ContactGraduate Admissions.

International Applicants:
If you are an International Student please submit the completed International Graduate Awarding For Admission and required materials to the International Education Center. To ensure timely commitment of materials and for application to receive full consideration, application and required materials should be submitted by January 1 :

• The completed  International Graduate Awarding For Admission.
• Three letters of recommendation are required from teachers, writers, or other professionals who tin can adjure to your potential for graduate study. These must fastened to the application or emailed to intladm@gcsu.edu. Personal email addresses are not accepted. The email must exist from a professional business, establishment, or organization (for example, proper noun@university.edu, or name@concern.com; NOT Gmail, yahoo, or other personal web email addresses) and the letter should be sent every bit an attachment. If the recommender does non have an electronic mail with professional amalgamation (i.e., has a personal email), then the recommendation letter must be mailed as a hard copy directly by the recommender to the International Didactics Center with recommender's signature across the envelope's seal:
  Georgia College
  International Teaching Heart
  Campus Box 49
  Milledgeville, GA 31061
• OFFICIAL undergraduate or graduate transcripts (even if still in progress). If you lot are in your final yr of undergraduate studies, you can even so exist admitted to the program, though final access will be contingent upon receiving terminal transcripts upon your graduation from your undergraduate institution.

Questions? Contact the International Education Center.

Application Procedure, Part Two:

Domestic and International applicants, email the following materials to theMFA Administrative Banana, mfa@gcsu.edu.

• A writing sample in your thesis genre (delight label as fiction, verse, or creative nonfiction). Submission should signal the genre to which you are applying: poetry, fiction, or creative nonfiction. Submit upwards to x pages of poems (typed, single-spaced, no more than 1 poem per page); or submit up to 20 pages of prose, 1 or two brusk stories or creative nonfiction essays/memoir excerpt (typed and double- spaced).

• A statement of purpose (about 500 words, typed, double-spaced). Delight accost your goals as a author. Tell us why yous wish to pursue an MFA in Creative Writing with us, rather than follow some other path. Surprise us.  Address equally well how the programme's offering of tutoring opportunities in the Writing Centre and didactics duties in the classroom will help you attain your goals.
• Résumé or CV.
• The to a higher place documents should be sent as Word documents or PDFs and labeled according to the post-obit scheme:
  • Last Name_Genre_Portfolio
  • Last Name_Genre_SOP
  • Concluding Name_Genre_Resume CV

The MFA program spider web pages provide program-specific information; all the same, you will find other important data at graduate admissions, the university registrar, financial aid and other GC web sites/offices. International students should contact the International Student Center for admission guidance.

Evaluation of Your Awarding

Your writing portfolio is the main credential we review in evaluating your application for admission (writing samples are reviewed by a faculty committee who teach in the educatee's thesis genre). Your letters of recommendation and argument of purpose are too important, since they will accost your skill and accomplishment every bit a writer. Because our students besides have required classes in Poesy & Poetics or Prose Forms, Teaching Artistic Writing and not-artistic writing courses in literature, criticism, linguistics or other subjects, your transcripts will also help us brand our concluding, holistic evaluation of your awarding.

We brainstorm to review applications after February.1. In order to maintain modest classes and private, intensive mentorship of thesis piece of work, our admission process is competitive. Our first step is to inform students (commonly early on to mid-March) whether or not they've been admitted to our plan. Our 2d pace is to determine MFA assistantship offers and wait lists (see Assistantships / Financial Assistance for details about graduate assistantships).

Any Questions?

Phone call u.s. at 478-445-3509, or transport an email. For Graduate Admissions questions, call 478-445-6289.

Assistantships/Financial Help

All awarding materials must be completed and received past Feb.1 if you wish to exist considered for an MFA programme-sponsored graduate assistantship (or "Yard.A."). Please include a résumé with the application materials you ship to the MFA program. Provide any data that best describes your skills and experience, including (but non limited to, and not necessarily in this social club):

• Education (any specific or special studies, experiences, or projects?)
• Tutoring, teaching, or mentoring skills, feel
• Editing/publishing feel (impress journal, newspaper, web, etc.)
• Advice skills (including social media/networking)
• Tech skills (InDesign, web editing programs, Photoshop, other Adobe software; experience with Microsoft office or Apple iBooks Writer?
• Whatever other skills/experiences you'd like to emphasize
• Listing iii references (those submitting your letters of recommendation)

Applications received by Feb.1, and selected for credence to the MFA program, will then exist reviewed to determine applicants that will exist offered MFA-sponsored assistantships. Kinesthesia committees (in each genre) review these applications holistically, based on the quality of the writing sample, potential for graduate study in an bookish setting, and depth of experience (equally reflected by the bidder's argument of purpose, letters of recommendation, transcripts and résumé). The committee then ranks the accepted applications. When rankings are complete, the MFA Coordinator contacts applicants to make assistantship offers or to hash out and clarify a candidate's placement on an assistantship waiting list. One time offered an MFA G.A., the bidder is encouraged to make a determination every bit soon every bit possible, merely a last decision will be due no subsequently than April fifteen.

Assistantships

Kinds of assistantships available to our graduate students:

Most MFA-sponsored first year graduate assistants(or "G.A.s") are assigned hours equally "writing consultants" in the university Writing Heart. Other MFA G.A.s divide their hours between the Writing Center and the MFA/Arts & Messages office, the Flannery O'Connor Review role, or our teaching writing in the schools Early Higher project. MFA-sponsored graduate assistantships include a stipend (current stipend is $eight,600 per year) and full-tuition remission (but does non include mandatory educatee fees and, unless eligible to exist waived, mandatory student insurance). The GC Budget Part posts current tuition and fees; information about student insurance is available at United Healthcare.

Education Fellowships require a secondary application process, due to additional credentials required for teaching college-level classes. Students who accept been awarded MFA-sponsored Chiliad.A.s are eligible to apply for a Teaching Fellowship if a) they already agree an Thou.A. in English, or b) they accept completed 18 hours of graduate credit in English, in add-on to meeting other criteria. MFA students who are eligible will apply to the Department of English and Rhetoric (submitting materials through www.gcsujobs.com or some other ways, as determined by the Chair). Note: Students are expected to teach during their second and third years of the program; failure to earn enough grade credit to teach classes or failure to meet other expected criteria for teaching may result in the forfeiture of the student's assistantship.

TheArts & Messages Journal Editing Fellowship at Georgia Higher encourages graduate studies for students with at least 1 year of experience in journal publishing and/or editing, desktop publishing and design (preferably with InDesign), and/or marketing and promotion (including social media). Students interested in applying for this Fellowship should also have excellent organizational and proofreading skills. The Fellowship offers recipients the opportunity to further develop both editorial and managerial skills over their three years in the MFA program, working closely with Arts & Messages' Editor and Fine art Director.

Qualified applicants who wish to pursue the Periodical Editing Fellowship should initially contact Dr. Kerry Neville, who coordinates the MFA Plan.

The Journal Editing Fellowship is awarded to an incoming student every other year, and includes a stipend for summer work, much of which tin can be done remotely. The Fellowship is typically awarded in the leap semester prior to the educatee's outset (fall) semester. The fellowship will be awarded to a qualified recipient in 2021.

Arts & Letters, a nationally known literary periodical in continuous biannual print publication since 1999, publishes innovative fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction by emerging and established writers, and offers almanac prizes in four genres, too a prize for 'unclassifiable' work. Contempo representative authors include Wes Civilz, Marianne Boruch, Keith Wilson, Michael Waters, James Allen Hall, Lina Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas, and George Singleton.

In addition, other academy assistantships outside the MFA plan may be an option for students accepted to our program (typically, these G.A.south offer a lower stipend merely still include a total in-country or out-of-state tuition waiver). The MFA coordinator volition discuss this option with applicants accepted to the program merely who do not receive an MFA-sponsored G.A.

Scholarships and other Financial Assist

Some MFA scholarships (subject to funding availability) are awarded, in addition to the stipend and tuition waiver, to students on MFA-sponsored assistantships. The program coordinator will hash out these awards (if available) with students offered MFA G.A.southward. ALL enrolled and returning university students (in good academic standing) tin employ for other scholarships (some related to the MFA in Creative Writing programme, some non), such equally the Flannery O'Connor Alumni Scholarship and the Dorrie Neligan Creative Writing Scholarships.

Student loans are also bachelor to MFA students through the university Financial Aid Part. Whether or not you're interested in applying for a educatee loan, accepted applicants may wish to complete the student loan FAFSA application. Discuss your options with GC's Fiscal Aid Role.

Quick Info For Assistantships:

• In 2019-2020, 22 of 28 MFA students had assistantships, and half-dozen had other university assistantships/appointments.
• MFA GAs include a stipend and full tuition waiver (in-land OR out-of-land tuition).
• Applicants offered MFA GAs are encouraged to brand a decision early only final decisions are due by Apr fifteen.
• MFA GAs are assigned hours in the Writing Eye (some GAs split up hours with some other assignment in our program).
• Students awarded MFA GAs apply to be Didactics Fellows their second twelvemonth (if eligible) through a divide process via the Department of English language.
• MFA GAs unremarkably earn 18 hours in ENGL graduate credit their start year (required for Teaching Young man eligibility).
• Teaching Fellows are typically assigned Core classes (ENGL 1101, 1102) and ENGL 2208: Intro to Creative Writing.
• Stipends for assistantships are paid in five equal installments each semester (fall/spring).
• Assistantships do not cover required pupil fees or educatee insurance (may be eligible to waive).

MFA students are eligible for a variety of scholarships, some related, some non related, to Creative Writing, likewise as student loans.

Graduate Assistantships in the Writing Center

Graduate Consultant

Interdisciplinary Writing Coordinator

Resources Coordinator

Peace Corp Fellows

The Peace Corps Paul D. Coverdell Fellows Program at Georgia Higher encourages graduate studies for Returned Peace Corps volunteers (RCPV's). Fellows who are accepted to participating graduate programs in their field are awarded assistantships that relate to their experience and training in the Peace Corps.

Upon successful completion of their Peace Corps Volunteer assignment, RCPV's can apply to the Georgia College MFA Program (the awarding process is the same as for all applicants, but run into the Peace Corps website for more information about RCPV eligibility requirements).

Peace Corps Volunteers who wish to pursue these Coverdell Fellowships should initially contact Kerry Neville, who coordinates the Coverdell Fellows Program on behalf of the university.

Assistantships are typically awarded in the leap for positions beginning fall semester. For that reason, potential Coverdell Fellows should brand formal application by Feb.1 prior to the fall semester they plan to matriculate. The formal awarding must include the Peace Corps Clarification of Service (DOS) Certification of Service document: https://www.peacecorps.gov/returned-volunteers/support-services/certifi… "

Early College

Typically, Peace Corps Coverdell Fellows in the MFA programme at Georgia Higher help to organize and mentor our Early on College writing-in-the-schools project. Early on College is a public school housed at the Georgia Higher campus, serving students from Baldwin and Putnam counties. Georgia College undergraduate majors, under the supervision of MFA students and kinesthesia, mentor seventh graders in the Early College program and assistance them to publish a literary journal calledThe Peacock'southward Feather.

Georgia College Early College was initially supported past funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, for which the program remains grateful.

Three Year Plan

Most students complete the MFA plan in 3 years. To meet MFA requirements, students take a minimum of 18 credit hours in the first year and 12 credit hours in the 2nd and 3rd years. Annotation: for students on MFA assistantships who are eligible to teach, there are additional education/didactics courses and other requirements designed to support and ready Pedagogy Fellows.

A Typical Sample Plan for MFA Coursework:

All students take 34 hours of coursework: ENGL-MFA 4-semester credit hour courses (28 hours); ENGL 3-semester credit hr courses (half dozen hours):

12 hours: 5000-level and 6000-level courses in the student's major writing genre (three courses): ENGL 5021, ENGL 6021 and ENGL 6025 (poetry genre); ENGL 5012, ENGL 6012 and ENGL 6026 (creative nonfiction genre); ENGL 5022, ENGL 6022 and ENGL 6026 (fiction genre).

4 hours: Course in non-thesis genre workshop (1 class); ENGL 5011, 5012, 5021, or 5022. Annotation that 5000-level workshops in a genre are the prerequisite for 6000-level seminars in a genre (see electives section beneath).

12 hours: Electives called from ENGL 5011, 5012, 5021, 5022, 6012, 6021, 6022, 6024, 6025, 6026 (these courses are repeatable; some take prerequisites; approved ENGL 5950 MFA Special Topics may also be called (no more than 8 hours of MFA Special Topics courses may count towards elective requirements).

half dozen hours: Non-MFA ENGL 5000-6000 level courses (at least one course at the 6000 level).

All students also complete the MFA Thesis (8 hours). All students must consummate a thesis, with the accompanying critical essay, also as complete a successful thesis defence force in club to graduate. The thesis is intended to be a book-length project. A prose thesis must be a minimum of 100 pages, and a poetry thesis must be a minimum of 35 pages. Students have to complete a thesis in the genre of their specialization; we do allow hybrid thesis projects that are written to be a singular combination, but we practice not permit hybrid thesis projects that are a compilation of stories, essays, and poems thrown together to create folio length. The thesis defence is an oral defense of your thesis, attended by the thesis director, the thesis committee members, and the student, and is scheduled at least 2 weeks earlier the end of your final term.

English Course Descriptions from graduate Grade cAtalog

Total Credits required: 42

FAQ

If I write in multiple genres, do I have to cull just one to submit in my awarding?

Yes, cull i for your application. Still our program does encourage written report in a 2d genre -- in fact, we require each student to take at least one workshop out-of-genre.

How do you cull which genre to use in? Submit your best work. We accept candidates primarily on the claim of the writing sample. You will be expected to write your thesis in the genre you submitted.

For my writing sample, can I submit a chapter of a novel-in-progress? What if I don't take a total 15 pages I'1000 proud of for my sample?

A chapter is fine, or a completed short story/essay. Notwithstanding, the more than complete, the better. Quality over quantity.

Do I need a BA in Writing or English to use?

No. We've had students in the past with diverse undergraduate degrees. If yous take a potent sample, apply. However, we do review transcripts to meet if students have completed some humanities courses (in English or other fields); and although there is no minimum G.P.A., almost all of our applicants have been successful students, earning three.0 or higher in their academic studies.

How many courses do Teaching Fellows teach each semester?

Here's the standard procedure (per semester) for G.A. Teaching Fellows:

1st year: Graduate Assistants work in the Writing Centre every bit Consultants OR Writing Center + Journal office or Early College; and serve as readers for Arts & Letters Journal.
2nd twelvemonth: Graduate Assistant Teaching Fellows teach two classes; OR Journal or Early on College  + Teach 1 form; and serve every bit readers for Arts & Letters Journal.
3rd year: Teach ii classes; and serve as readers for Arts & Letters Periodical.

The exception is for candidates who already have an MA. They are eligible to brainstorm pedagogy ii classes the outset year and continue that for all three years. Withal, all students on MFA assistantship must undergo a farther application/review process before they will be assigned didactics duties.

What is the stipend and tuition remission that your students receive if offered an MFA graduate assistantship?

The current stipend given to those with an MFA assistantship is $8,600 per twelvemonth. In add-on, many MFA assistantships include scholarship funds (amounts vary). MFA assistantships likewise include full tuition remission for in-land or out-of-state tuition (educatee fees, yet, are not covered).

There are also other university assistantships bachelor to which MFA students may apply. These assistantships offer smaller stipends, merely usually include full tuition remission (again, student fees are non covered).

At that place is a educatee health insurance plan that meets the requirements of the new Affordable Health Intendance Act that students purchase or they may waived the student insurance if they have another qualified insurance plan.

What is the difference between an MFA assistantship and Peace Corp Coverdell Fellows?

Upon successful completion of their Peace Corps Volunteer consignment, RCPV's tin can apply to the Georgia College MFA Program (the application process is the same as for all applicants, but see the Peace Corps website for more information about RCPV eligibility requirements).

How many applications exercise you typically receive and how many do you have?

We typically review over 100 applications each yr for the program.  We enroll well-nigh 7 new students each year, with a balanced number in each of the three thesis genres (fiction, poesy, and creative nonfiction). Typically, seven MFA assistantships are assigned to new students accustomed in the program; other students might be offered other university assistantships or seek out other funding support. The 3-year program enrolls most 25 students total.

What constitutes a good recommender?

It's important to take professional recommenders (i.e., employer supervisors, established writers, higher professors). Ideally, these people can speak to your ability to work and handle graduate classes and speak to the quality of your writing. Y'all may cull different sorts of people to speak to your different qualities. These should not exist friends or family unit members.

If I'grand reapplying, what practice I need to do?

You volition not demand to re-submit everything, and there is no fee for second-time applicants. Yous will demand to contact Graduate Admissions and the MFA program to announce that you are re-applying. We suggest submitting to the MFA plan an updated manuscript and your statement of purpose and resume. Yous do NOT need to re-submit transcripts, unless you've taken a class at another college since you last applied.

* NOTE You lot will demand to submit again a new awarding to the Graduate Admissions role.  You lot may utilize your old letters of recommendation, or submit new letters. .

Our Community

Our Current Students

FICTION

Collin Bishoff, Caleb Bouchard, Timothy Connors, Marybeth Cooper, Keely Hopkins, Dalton Monk, Kelly Piggott, Courtney Schmidt, and William Warren.

POETRY

 Mary Alsobrooks, Auden Eagerton, Avery James, Natalie Mau, and Lori Tennant.

Creative NONFICTON

Paul Bryant, Mary-Kate Burns, Megan Duffy, William Gerdes-McClain, Nicholas Green, Charlotte Lauer, Amelia Longo, and Denechia Powell

Writers Who Publish

Although we don't expect incoming students to have published their piece of work, since our program began in 2001, our students accept been publishing their poems, stories, and essays in many national journals.

GC students have published in such journals asBackwards City Review, Big Muddy, Flower, Cimarron Review, Colorado Review, Crazyhorse, Cream City Review, Descant, Dos Passos Review, Eclipse, International Poetry Review, McSweeney's, Meridian, Nimrod, Pebble Lake, Poet Lore, Quick Fiction, Rattle, Redivider, River Teeth, Salt Hill, Santa Clara Review, Spinning Jenny, Thema, Touchstone and many others.

Our Alumni

Alumni Donors Give thanks Y'all

• Danny Bauer
• Ashlee Crews
• Janet Dale
• Steve Lavender
• Shawn Parkinson
• Daniel Plunkett
• Seth Tomko
• William Torgerson
• Gwendolyn Turnbull
• Christopher Varn

Our alumni have been up to many neat things, and we are excited to share just a few with y'all here.  In addition to being published in many journals, our alumni have been winning awards and publishing collections, including:

• Ashlee Adams Crews'south (fiction, 2006) story "Bird Feed" (in "McSweeney'southward) won a Pushcart Prize in 2010. Her story "Church building Time" won NC State's 2011 James Hurst Prize. In 2012, her drove, Called Out, was a finalist for the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, and in 2013 she received the "Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Laurels." Read her story "Restoration" online at "Shenandoah."

• Kristie Robin Johnson'southward (artistic nonfiction, 2018) essay collection, Loftier Cotton wool, will be published in summer of 2020 by. I of her essays will appear in the forthcoming album, We Got This: Solo Mom Stories of Dust, Heart, and Humour, from She Writes press. She is the recipient of an artist grant from the Greater Augusta Arts Council, and her writing has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and received honorable mention in the AWP Intro to Journals Project. She teaches English at Oconee Fall Line Technical Higher and Georgia Military College.

• Mike McClelland'south(fiction, 2017) collection of brusk fiction, Gay Zoo Solar day: Tales of Seeking and Discovery" (2017) published past Cute Dreamer Press, won the Independent Book Publishers Association'southward Silver Benjamin Franklin Honor for LGBT Literature. His creative work has appeared in publications such as the Boston Review, Entropy, Queen Mob's Tea House, and others, and has been widely anthologized, nearly recently in Gents: Steamy Stories from the Historic period of Steam, which was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award. His work has been recognized every bit a semifinalist for the Conium Prize and the Saints and Sinners Short Story Competition. In 2018, he was invited to read his work and present at the annual TEDMED conference in Palm Springs alongside speakers like NBA star Dikembe Mutombo, Surgeon General Jerome Adams, and writer Nayomi Munaweera.

• Miller Oberman's (verse, 2006) verse collection, The Unstill Ones, a collection of poems and Quondam English translations, was published in the fall, 2017 by the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets. Oberman is a by recipient of the Poetry Foundation's Ruth Lilly Fellowship. His drove Useful was a finalist for the 2012 National Poetry Series. Read "Old English Rune Poem," a new translation  published in "Poetry" (July/August 2013).

• T.J. Sandella (poetry, 2013) has been chosen as one of the All-time New Poets 2014. He has also won awards including the William Matthews Verse Prize (2014, Asheville Verse Review), the Academy of American Poets Prizes and the Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize.

• Volition Torrey (fiction, 2010) won "Zone 3'due south" 2011 Editors' Prize for his story "Trajabar." Read his Baronial 2013 "Working Writers Series"interview online at "The Missouri Review."

• Bill Torgerson's (fiction, 2007) most recent novel isHorseshoe (Cherokee McGhee, 2012). He teaches at St. John'south University. Bank check out his blog "The Torg".

Proceed in bear on with all our outstanding alumni as well as electric current MFA students and happenings at the program's Facebook page!

Milledgeville: A Literary Community

Georgia Higher offers a unique setting for students interested in pursuing their MFA in Creative Writing. Our academy is small-scale (nearly half dozen,500 students), located in historic downtown Milledgeville, one-time capital of Georgia from 1803-1868 and location of Andalusia, historic dwelling house of writer Flannery O'Connor.

Milledgeville is in the center of Georgia, only 90 miles from Atlanta and an easy drive to the beaches of Savannah and Tybee Island or to the foothills of North Georgia. Milledgeville was the state capital letter from 1803 to 1868 and is the site of the newly restored Quondam State Capitol and Old Governor'south Mansion.

The historic downtown features shops, restaurants and taverns just two blocks from campus. The climate is warm, with mild winters and "nada" almanac average snowfall. Our community offers places where writers can have a cup of java, meet friends and relax. Downtown restaurants, coffee shops, and stores blend small town and college town living into an ideal setting for serious writers.

You might recognize a identify or graphic symbol from the curt stories of Flannery O'Connor or Alice Walker (who grew upwards in nearby Eatonton). Andalusia is the subcontract where author Flannery O'Connor lived from 1951 to 1964. O'Connor was living at her subcontract when she completed all of her published books of fiction. Andalusia is open to the public (see their website for more information).

Learn More Almost Milledgeville

Our Faculty

Dr. Kerry James Evans

• Poetry
• PhD Florida Land University; MFA Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
• At GC since 2020

Dr. Kerry James Evans is the author of the verse collection, Bangalore, a Lannan Literary Selection. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Walter East. Dakin Fellowship from Sewanee Writers' Briefing, and he has taught poesy workshops, poetic forms and theory, and other courses at Florida State Academy and at Tuskegee Academy where he was an Assistant Professor. His poems take appeared in Agni, Narrative, Ploughshares, and other journals.

Dr. Martin Lammon (Professor Emeritus)

• Poesy, Creative Nonfiction
• Ph.D., M.A. Ohio University
• At GC 1997-2020

Martin Lammon has won awards for both his poesy and creative nonfiction. His collection of poems, News from Where I Alive, won the Arkansas Poetry Honor, and his poems and essays have appeared in such journals equallyThe Gettysburg Review, Hotel America, The Iowa Review, Ploughshares, Poet Lore, Poets and Writers and The Southern Review. Poems published in Nimrod were awarded a Pablo Neruda Prize. His essays about living in Costa Rica take been published inThe Iowa Review , Zone 3 , andThe Chattahoochee Review (winner of the Lamar York Prize for Creative Nonfiction).From 1997-2018, he was the Fuller East. Callaway endowed Flannery O'Connor Chair in Creative Writing. In 2007, he was selected for GC'southward Distinguished Professor Honor.

Dr. Kerry Neville

• Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
• Ph.D., Academy of Houston
• At GC since 2016
• Coordinator of the MFA and Undergraduate Creative Writing Program

Kerry Neville received her PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Houston, her BA from Colgate University, and was most recently an Assistant Professor of English language at Allegheny College.  She is the author of the short fiction collection,Remember To Forget Me, and of the award-winning brusque fiction drove,Necessary Lies.  She is besides a contributor to The Huffington Post, The Washington Post, and The Fix. Her essays and stories have been named Notables in Best American Short Stories and Best American Essays. She has twice received the Dallas Museum of Art Prize for Fiction, and has too been awarded The John Guyon Prize in Literary Nonfiction,The Texas Establish of Letters/Kay Cattarulla Prize for the Short Story, and the Brusque Story Book of the Year Prize from Independent Publisher Magazine. She is faculty for the FrankMcCourt/University of Limerick Summer Writing Schoolhouse. She was a 2018 Fulbright Scholar and taught in the Thou.A. Creative Writing Plan at Academy of Limerick in Ireland

Laura Newbern

• Poetry
• MFA Warren Wilson College; One thousand.A. English language-Artistic Writing, New York University
•  At GC since 2005

Laura Newbern's collection of poems, Love and the Centre, won the 2010 First Book Award from Kore Press. She'due south also received the prestigious Writer'south Honour from the Rona Jaffe Foundation, which recognizes outstanding emerging women writers. She teaches poetry workshops, poetics, and other courses. Laura is currently the Editor ofArts & Letters. Her poems have been published in such journals equallyThe Atlantic, Poetry, TriQuarterly and other journals. Newbern besides expresses her artistic interests through blackness and white photography.

Peter Selgin

• Creative Nonfiction, Fiction
• MFA, The New Schoolhouse
• At GC since 2012

Peter Selgin'south latest essay collection, The Kuhreihen Melody (Serving House Books) was named a finalist for the 2019 BIG OTHER Book Award for Nonfiction and an excerpt from his novel Duplicity was a finalist for the 2019 Arts and crafts First Affiliate Contest. His memoir,The Inventors, (Hawthorn Printing) was named a Best Memoir of 2016 past Library Journal. His essay, "My New York: A Romance in Viii Parts," was chosen by Paul Theroux for inclusion in All-time American Travel Writing, 2014. His memoir,Confessions of a Left-Handed Human being: An Artist'due south Memoir (University of Iowa Press, 2011), was short-listed for the 2012 William Saroyan International Prize; the championship essay was selected for All-time American Essays 2006. He is the author ofDrowning Lessons (University of Georgia Press, 2008), winner of the 2007 Flannery O'Connor Award for Fiction;Life Goes to the Movies, a novel, two books on the arts and crafts of fiction writing, and several children's books. He has had a dozen notable essay citations in BAE anthologies. His stories and essays have appeared in theMissouri Review, Colorado Review, Boulevard, Glimmer Railroad train, Fourth Genre, Creative Nonfiction, Salon.com, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Sun, and other publications. Other honors include the Missouri Review Editors' Prize, a Dana Award for the Essay, and a Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights' Briefing Award for his play,A God in the House, based on Dr. Kevorkian and his suicide machine. He teaches fiction, creative nonfiction, journal pattern, editing, and product, and other courses. He is too creative nonfiction editor ofArts & Letters.

Dr. Chika Unigwe

• Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
• PhD Academy of Leiden, Holland; degrees from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka and the KU Leuven Kingdom of belgium
• At GC since 2020

Dr. Chika Unigwe is the author of Better Never than Late, De Zwarte Messias, Night Dancer, On Black Sisters Street, De Feniks, Meulenhoff-Manteau, and two children'southward Readers, Ije at School and A Rainbow for Dinner. Her curt stories accept appeared in different anthologies including in Watchlist, New Daughters of Africa, and Lagos Noir. Her fellowships include but are not limited to a  Rockefeller Foundation Fellow at the Bellagio Centre, Italy , a UNESCO-Aschberg Swain at the Civitella Ranieri Centre in Umbertide, Italia, a SYLT Fellow in Germany and a writing beau at Cove Park, Scotland. She was a special guest  lecturer at Tubingen University, Germany, and a Bonderman Assistant Professor of Exercise at Dark-brown University.  She has won a BBC brusque story competition, a democracy short story prize, has been shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing and awarded a 2016 Pushcart Prize Special Mention. In 2012, she won the $100,000 Nigeria Prize for Literature, Africa'southward most important literary prize. She has judged literary prizes including the 2017 Human Booker International Prize.

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