Literary Arts
Graduate program handbook.
We have designed this handbook not only to introduce you to our policies and procedures, but also to prepare you for making the decisions that will shape your two years at Brown.
As a student in Literary Arts, you are in a unique position among graduate students. You have the opportunity to choose a number of your eight semester-long courses from any university department or program. Though the Graduate School requires that you take classes appropriate to your graduate status, you have the freedom to design much of your curriculum. When a new class of undergraduates arrives at Brown, each of them, too, must choose courses without the constricting guidelines of distribution requirements. The first-year undergraduates, however, have eight semesters with which to experiment. Since you have just four courses to work with, and nothing like the undergraduate’s safety net of faculty and peer advising, you will want to make good choices the first and every time. As long as you feel your courses will help you in your writing, the department will support your choice.
Our statements parallel and incorporate official statements, when appropriate. Through we have tried not to omit any crucial information, we have undoubtedly missed things that you will want to know. The important thing is to ask questions. Your workshop leader, your professors, the chair, the academic program director, the director of graduate studies, your colleagues, students in other programs, are all invaluable sources of information. Your official advisor each semester is your workshop leader; your secondary advisors are the chair and the director of graduate studies; you should feel free, however, to seek advice from any member of the department faculty.
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Choosing courses, computer services, conference travel, department’s review process, financial emergencies, financial information, graduate reps, graduate school statement on evaluation and warning, grievance procedure, incompletes, job placement, leaves of absence, readmission, returns from leaves of absence.
It is not part of the scope of this Handbook to provide information on housing, meals, recreation, etc. For this kind of information, you should consult the guide provided by the Brown University Graduate Student Council, along with web sites found through Brown’s A to Z guide.
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Over the last two decades, all incoming MFA students received full funding. Packages for Literary Arts students generally take the following form. Stipends are paid monthly, in equal installments. First Year. Summer.
As part of our series How to Fully Fund Your Master’s Degree, here is a list of universities that have fully funded MFA programs in creative writing. A Master’s of Fine Arts in creative writing can lead to a career as a professional writer, in academia, and more.
Brown University, based in Providence, Rhode Island, offers a two-year fully funded MFA in creative writing. In this Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing degree you may choose to focus on one of three tracks – Fiction, Poetry, or Digital/Cross Disciplinary Writing.
Home Graduate Admission is highly selective, and is based primarily on the quality of the applicant’s literary writing. Your writing sample, therefore, is the most important part of your application. In putting your sample together, you should emphasize quality rather than length. Your writing sample should be in a single genre. Writing Sample
Tracks. Admission. Financial Information. Graduate Program Handbook. MFA Students. We have designed this handbook not only to introduce you to our policies and procedures, but also to prepare you for making the decisions that will shape your two years at Brown.