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Information and updates about the Low Residency Master of Fine Arts-Creative Writing program at the University of Tampa.

The University of Tampa low-residency Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program is designed to help poets, fiction writers and creative nonfiction writers advance their command of craft through exposure to literature from a writerly perspective and with supportive critique and mentoring. The two-year, four-term course of individualized study encourages the rich interplay of participation in

an extended literary community, and it seeks to deepen the understanding of writing as an ongoing engagement with discovery and transformation. Students attend four ten-day working residencies, capped off by a fifth, culminating residency, on UT’s historic campus in downtown Tampa, on the banks of the Hillsborough River. Each residency is followed by a five-month one-on-one tutorial with a faculty mentor focused on the student’s written work and readings as negotiated in an individual plan of study. As part of the requirements for the degree, the student completes many drafts and revisions, resulting in a substantial manuscript of original work in the selected genre. Along the way, the student reads and comments on works that have shaped the genre, completes a 25-page critical essay in the third semester and assembles an annotated bibliography that conveys the importance and influence of great writers on their own work. In the fifth, culminating residency, the student teaches a seminar on a pre-arranged topic of interest and gives a public reading of his/her own work. Each semester grade is pass/fail accompanied by a narrative evaluation composed by the student’s mentor.

01/14/2020

01/13/2020

Usually on the New Books Network we do exactly what our name says: we talk about new books. Today, however, we’re doing something a little different. I’m interviewing Donald Morrill about his very …

01/10/2020

The Lectores Reading Series of the University of Tampa MFA Program continues this evening, Friday, January 10, at 7:30 pm, on the 9th floor of the Vaughn Center, on the UT campus. The featured reader is speculative fiction master Jeff VanderMeer.

01/06/2020

Very excited that the Lectores Reading Series of the University of Tampa MFA Program will commence this Thursday, January 9, at 7:30 pm, on the 9th floor of the Vaughn Center, on the UT campus. Our first featured guest: Valeria Luiselli. https://www.macfound.org/fellows/1043/

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11/13/2019

JANUARY 2020 LECTORES READING SERIES

We're delighted to announce the January 2020 Lectores Reading Series at the UTMFA--beginning, January 9th, with Valeria Luiselli:

A 2019 MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient, Valeria Luiselli is the author of Lost Children Archive, a finalist for the 2019 Kirkus Prize for Fiction and longlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize. The volume was named a best book of 2019 by Entertainment Weekly, Vanity Fair, Vulture and Time. NPR called it “daring, wholly original, brilliant, fascinating.” Lost Children Archive re-imagines the classic road trip novel as an urgent examination of the immigration crisis of the US Southern Border. It is also something of a companion piece to Luiselli’s moving nonfiction volume Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions. Luiselli is also the author of the novels The Story of My Teeth and Faces in the Crowd, and Sidewalks, an essay collection.

06/13/2019

Tonight we’re kicking off our June residency with a reading from Alexander Chee, author of the novels Edinburgh and The Queen of the Night, and the essay collection How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Join us at 7:30 in the Vaughn Center Crescent Club. You don’t want to miss this magic.

05/29/2019

Congrats to UTampa alum Brook Amos on his forthcoming book, Iron Horses & Paintbrushes: My Life as a Railroad Man & Railroad Artist! This autobiographical account of Charles Amos details his thirty years as a railroader and thirty-five years as a railroad artist. Look for it on shelves in late 2020, with Garbely Publishing Company.

05/08/2019

Faculty mentor Don Morill’s novel, BEAUT, receiving a spectacular review in Publishers Weekly! Congrats, Don!

Morill’s spare, haunting debut explores the space between rebirth and mortality, beauty and horror, family support and family obligation. At 66, widow Jill Lundgrove rents a bland apartment in Des Moi

04/30/2019

Check out student Marilyn Duarte’s lyric essay, “An Ocean Away,” out now in The Tishman Review! Congrats, Marilyn!

04/25/2019

Faculty mentor Alan Michael Parker wins the 2019 Randall Jarrell Poetry Prize for his poem “Psalm”! Congratulations, AMP!!

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