I received the following email, which I pass along to NU students who may be interested:
I would like to invite your students to apply to the University at
Buffalo's new graduate degree in creative writing. We're launching our new MA
in Innovative Writing program this Fall 2014. Our application period opens
February 1.
The curriculum of the new writing program has been designed by UB
poets and fiction writers--Myung Mi Kim, Judith Goldman, Dimitri
Anastasopoulos, and Christina Milletti--who are hoping to round out our
internationally renowned department with a new workshop-based curriculum, and
to make it a launch pad for young writers. In Fall 2014, novelist Nnedi
Okorafor also joins our faculty.
Our MA Certificate in Innovative Writing presents a unique form of
graduate study in creative writing, closely intertwining the practice of
writing with literary and aesthetic inquiries. Our goal is to create a
collaborative environment for our students, in which new forms of writing can
flourish alongside familiar genres. Poetry. Fiction. Hybrid forms. Digital
media. However innovation takes place.
Students in the program can expect to be immersed in a mentorship
community activated by conversations about writing--above all, to be invited to
view their work as an investigative, exploratory process: a mode of inquiry
that, at its best, can articulate diverse experiences of 21st
century culture, and unearth, perhaps even overturn, our most foundational
thoughts, freeing them for profound imaginative work.
UB's English Department is a haven for writing events of all kinds due
to our two distinctive reading series--the Poetics Plus and Exhibit X Fiction
Series--which regularly brings award-winning writers to Buffalo. In Spring
2014, alone, our guests already include (among others) Rodrigo Toscano (Feb
11), Jerome Rothenberg (April 17), Alice Notley (April 24), Amanda
Michalopoulou (April 10) and Victor LaValle (March 6).
Graduate students who enroll in our writing program will earn an MA in
English with a Certificate in Innovative Writing--a unique degree they can then
position in a number of effective ways. It's particularly ideal degree for
students who are interested in enhancing their writing portfolios and their
literary backgrounds before applying to writing-related jobs, or MFA and PhD
programs.
Sincerely,
Christina Milletti
Associate Professor of English
Director: Creative Writing Certificate Programs