Assistantships and Prizes

Possible funding sources include:

• $9,000 graduate assistantship, with 80% tuition remission (available for all qualified full-time MA and MFA students)
• Limited number of $12,000 graduate assistantships, with 80% tuition remission
• Lawrence Sanders Fellowship, which provides a stipend of $15,000 and 80% tuition remission
• Partial stipend for serving as editor-in-chief of the FAU literary magazine, Coastlines
• Swann Award for the program's best first-year fiction writer and poet
• Coyle Award for best creative thesis
• Annual Frank and Courtney Brogan Awards for the best poem and prose piece published in Coastlines

The standard responsibility for a graduate assistant is to teach two courses per semester, but other options are available, including research assistantships and assistantships in the University Center for Excellence in Writing.

Literary Life at FAU

Boca Raton is located in South Florida, an area saturated in literary history and resources, including the annual Miami Book Fair International and the Key West Literary Seminars. On campus, there are regular readings by students, faculty and internationally acclaimed authors. Each year, the Mary Blossom Lee Visiting Poets Series brings top poets to campus to read and meet with students. These and other recent visiting writers have included Gerald Stern, Melvin Bukiet, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Mark Doty, Cristina Garcia, Reginald Gibbons, Albert Goldbarth, Jorie Graham, Edward Hirsch, Christopher Hitchens, Karl Kirchwey, Jhumpa Lahiri, Ann Lauterbach, Hank Lazar, James Merrill, Harryette Mullen, Robert Pinsky, Luis Rebaza, Thane Rosenbaum, Mary Jane Ryals, and Virgil Suarez. For students interested in publishing their work or for those interested in working in publishing, there is Coastlines, the annual campus literary magazine.