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.
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