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MFA, Creative Writing & Publishing Arts
Director, Kendra Kopelke

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Making your work public: That's what's important to us in UB's Creative Writing & Publishing Arts program.

And that's what's unique about us. In addition to an array of writing classes and workshops, we offer courses in book arts, small press publishing, and creativity. You'll send your work to established literary journals, and you'll also create your own print and electronic journals and publish broadsides and chapbooks.

Your culminating project will be a print or electronic publication of poetry, fiction, essay, or memoir that you not only write, but also design and produce. Along the way, you'll have many opportunities to develop the range of skills that will help you complete this project.

We're as concerned about what happens to you after you graduate as we are about the time you spend in our program. UB's unique integration of writing and publishing gives you courses and skills that allow you to not only live a writing life, but make you a strong candidate for careers in teaching or publishing.

Visit our FAQ page for more information, and check out some Baltimore Literary Hot Spots.

For more on "plorking," and for some examples by current students, visit the PLORK page.

Course Requirements:

Creative Writing & Publishing Arts [48 credits]
View and print Requirements as a PDF document

Admissions and Application

Students are admitted once a year. The application deadline is February 1 for the following fall.

Admission Requirements

  1. A baccalaureate degree
  2. 3.0 overall GPA

Application Materials

  1. Cover letter explaining why you want to enter the program.
  2. A portfolio of no more than 10 poems or 15-20 pages of prose [fiction or literary nonfiction] sent directly to the program director

Send program application materials directly to:

MFA/Creative Writing and Publishing Arts Admissions
School of Communications Design
University of Baltimore
1420 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21201

Graduate Application

Submit an electronic application for Graduate Admission to the University's Office of Graduate Admissions: go to Apply to UB at www.ubalt.edu/admissions. Also required are a statement of personal interest [which can be the same as the "cover letter," above], TWO letters of recommendation, and official copies of transcripts. Forms for the statement and recommendations, as well as other optional forms, can be downloaded; go to www.ubalt.edu/admissions; click Download Forms. Send the statement of personal interest, two letters of recommendation* and official copies of transcripts to:

Office of Graduate Admissions
University of Baltimore
1420 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21201

* Current students and alumni of the M.A. in Publications Design do not need to submit letters of recommendation.

Students will be admitted once a year.
The application deadline for Fall admission is February 1.

Please note that it is important that all application materials be received by the application deadline.

For more information about the University of Baltimore's MFA in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts:

To speak to a current MFA student about anything related to the program and student life:

Also visit our FAQ page.

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