MFA in Creative Writing

The online Creative Writing degree requires 49 total credit hours, a combination of online workshops, online literature seminars, online elective studies, contemplative practice, summer residence at the Summer Writing Program and at-home manuscript.

Students enrolling in the low-residency MFA program will enjoy the benefits of the Naropa experience without having to relinquish other commitments. Courses are taken online during the regular academic year, and summer semesters of the degree period are completed at Naropa. Online students generally enroll for 6 (but no less than 6) credit hours per semester to realize their degree in three years and to qualify for financial aid.

Writing workshops include Practice of Poetry, Practice of Fiction, and Creative Reading and Writing. Literature seminars focus on the works of particular authors, literary history and culture, and contemporary trends in literary theory. The final semester is spent on a final creative manuscript and thesis. Students in the online MFA program take courses in both poetry and prose. Prospective students who wish to devote themselves exclusively to a concentration in one or the other genre are urged to apply to the in-residency MFA in Writing and Poetics program.

not enough night is the online publication of Naropa University's MFA Creative Writing program, the low-residency component of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. It is published online three times a year.

Naropa's MFA Writing & Poetics graduates have entered careers in teaching, publishing, arts administration and screenwriting. Some have gone on to PhD programs, and many have had their original works published by small press and mass-market publishers. Graduates have received NEA awards in poetry, have been artists in residence in the United States and abroad, and have performed their work nationally and internationally.