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The Temple Graduate Creative Writing Program awards a two-year Master's degree in English-Creative Writing, with a focus in either fiction or poetry. The program encourages writers to find their own voices, their own approaches to contemporary literature and language. Through workshops each semester and private manuscript tutorials with our resident faculty in the second year, it helps students gain technique and self-confidence, as they move into the highly competitive world of submissions to journals and book publishers. Special topics classes in creative writing, as well as graduate seminars in literature are also part of the curriculum.

Workshops are supplemented by a series of readings from visiting writers and week-long writers-in-residence. For more information, please look at our events page.

NOTE ABOUT THE NEW M.F.A. DEGREE: Plans are underway to switch our M.A. degree in Creative Writing to an M.F.A. beginning in the fall of 2010. It will be a two-year, 36-credit program. At this time, we are awaiting official approval from the university, but all indications are that things will progress smoothly: there is much support for the M.F.A. program at all levels of the university. However, we will not receive final confirmation until the summer of 2010, when the board of trustees will meet. We will do our best to update the status of the proposed M.F.A. as we go through the approval process. In regards to curriculum, the M.F.A. will be very similar to the existing M.A., with added credit hours for special topics/craft classes and theses.