Manuscript Seminar: Creative Writing Specialization

Catalog description

Completion of a single-genre manuscript under the direction of a first reader who is a member of the English graduate faculty, in consultation with a qualified second reader. Six face-to-face meetings with the first reader are required, and at least one meeting with the second reader. The manuscript will consist of at least forty to fifty pages of poetry or prose half of which may be work begun in previous graduate creative writing courses and substantially revised for this course. The manuscript will include a five-page Introduction. Once the manuscript has been judged as satisfactory by both readers, the graduate program will schedule an oral defense to be attended by both readers as well as the graduate program director.