As an MFA Creative Writing graduate student at Florida Atlantic University, you can gain experience teaching composition and creative writing through a teaching assistantship. Teaching assistantships include a full tuition waiver and competitive stipend. You can also pursue a summer internship, work on our literary magazines—Coastlines and Swamp Ape, or seek a stipend for conference or summer travel.
Each year, the Lawrence A. Sanders Writer-in-Residence leads a weeklong workshop exclusively for MFA Creative Writing students. Past writers-in-residence include Justin Torres, Jo Ann Beard, Tayari Jones, Nick Flynn, Eula Biss, Michael Martone, and Forrest Gander. Our Off the Page reading series brings nationally known writers to campus each term. Recent visiting writers include Roxane Gay, Phil Klay, Rodrigo Toscano, and Rebecca Makkai.
Between workshops, readings, and work on a creative thesis, you can take a break and spend a sunny afternoon at the beach—we're just a few miles west of the Atlantic ocean.
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Literary Community & Events
Join our community of writers who support one another on and beyond the page. Attend readings, workshops, and symposiums; share your writing at an open mic night; or work on our literary magazine, Swamp Ape Review.
Our Off the Page reading series brings nationally recognized writers to campus each year. Past writers include A. Kendra Greene, Steven Hale, and Ross Gay, and Florida Atlantic faculty writers Romeo Oriogun and Andrew Furman.
Each spring, our MFA program writers work closely with a visiting author through the Lawrence A. Sanders Writer-in-Residence program. This weeklong workshop is exclusively for MFA students, and recent writers-in-residence include Diana Khoi Nguyen, Mitchell S. Jackson, Matt Bell, and Paisley Rekdal. The Sanders Literary Symposium series brings authors and their literary agennts to to share their perspectives on bringing books into the world. Our most recent symposium were FAU MFA program alumna Tochi Eze—author of This Kind of Trouble—and her agent, Allison Malecha.
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