The MA Program in Creative Writing at EMU emphasizes innovative writing, hybrid and mixed media projects, and interdisciplinary studies. The program is small, ten to twenty students, but it's a diverse group with wide-ranging interests in writing and the arts. The program offers students a rich space for innovation, for crossing boundaries between and among genres and media. We offer our students a welcoming community in which they can experiment and take up an extended examination of language and its various places in culture and the arts.

The MA in Creative Writing is a thirty-credit-hour degree including:

• Three Writing Workshops
• One course of independent work with Creative Writing Faculty Advisor on a final project
• Three Literature courses in Contemporary Studies
• Three Cognate Courses which students take in other departments of their choice for graduate level coursework that explores other disciplines. (Students have completed cognates in Fine Arts, for instance, as well as Women's Studies, Theater and Performance, Computer Science, Anthropology, and History.)

For their Final Writing Project, students submit a chapbook of their writing and also prepare an exhibit, performance, or presentation based on, or drawn from, their interdisciplinary Cognate studies. See Courses for specific program information.

The MA program sponsors BathHouse Magazine, a new online literary journal of hybrid art, and prominent Reading Series. The series brings six to ten writers to campus each semester who read or perform or exhibit their work, as well as host discussions with students on a variety of topics such as publishing, translation, and digital culture. EMU's guests represent both new and established voices from diverse quarters of the literary scene whose work draws on oral performance, as well as print traditions. The aim of the Reading series is to bring writers to campus who are actively (re)considering what writing can do.

At EMU, we offer a range of faculty and visiting writers with whom students can work, a diverse mix of students writing fiction and poetry, or designing mixed media, multimedia, and performance projects.

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For more information contact:

Russ Larson, Director of Graduate Studies
Department of English, Language, and Literature
Eastern Michigan University
Ypsilanti, MI 48197
Phone: (734) 487-2670
e-mail: rlarson@emich.edu