Welcome to the spring semester 2008


About the Creative Writing Program

The Graduate Program in Creative Writing at the University of Houston has grown dramatically and attained national prominence since its founding in 1979. Based on its reputation, scholarship, curriculum, and the quality of faculty and students, the Creative Writing Program was rated second in the nation by U.S. News & World Report in its first annual ranking of writing programs in 1997. The Creative Writing Program offers a Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing and an M.F.A. in English: Creative Writing.

Admission to the Creative Writing Program is extremely competitive, with only 10 new poetry and 10 new fiction students selected each year from the hundreds of applications received from around the world. Because the candidates that are accepted by the program are of such high caliber, quite a few win national writing awards and the majority have work accepted for publication while studying at UH. Most of our graduate students are awarded teaching assistantships to teach undergraduate classes here, and many also work with elementary and high school students through the acclaimed Writers in the Schools organization. In addition, program students can gain valuable editorial and publishing experience as staff members of the student-produced Gulf Coast literary journal.The Creative Writing Program has fostered a thriving literary community in Houston and is active in developing a diverse audience for contemporary literature. Its prestigious Margaret Root Brown Houston Reading Series presents seven readings each year featuring some of the most important writers of fiction, poetry, and essays from around the nation and the world. Our faculty and students join the visiting artists in a number of local outreach activities that broaden participation in writing, particularly among youth in traditionally underserved areas. Many of the literary programs and all of the students of the Creative Writing Program are supported by the generosity of Inprint, Inc., a unique nonprofit organization that acts as an independent advocate for the written word in general and the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston in particular.

Our site will be going through a major re-design in the coming weeks. In the interim, if you need to contact the Program feel free to email us at cwp@uh.edu. Our phone number is 713.743.3015 and the fax number is 713.743.3697. We are located in Rm. 229 of the Roy Cullen Bldg.
 


 

CONTACT INFORMATION:

Rm. 229, Roy Cullen Bldg. University of Houston

Tel:  713-743-3015    |  Fax: 713-743-3697     |     Email: cwp@uh.edu
 

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