Creative Writing
The Creative Writing program at WVU offers a Master of Fine Arts graduate degree in creative writing and a creative writing concentration for undergraduate students, and the opportunity to participate in the life of writing both in and out of the classroom setting.
Our widely published creative writing faculty, along with a distinguished visiting writers series, and a wide range of creative writing activities, make for an exciting atmosphere for the study of writing. The creative writing faculty includes Mark Brazaitis, Ben Doyle, James Harms, Ellesa Clay High, Emily Mitchell, Kevin Oderman, Mary Ann Samyn, and Ethel Morgan Smith who collectively have published more than 10 books. Their awards include the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Bakeless Prize, the PEN/Revson Fellowship, the Flannery O’Connor Award, the Appalachian Award, the Iowa Short Fiction Prize, and a West Virginia Commission on the Arts Fellowship.
Our writers and teachers are accessible and dedicated to developing new talent. Within a large, diverse university, it is possible to become an important member of a small, close-knit community of enthusiastic writing faculty and students.
Come live in our blue mountains and answer the call to become a serious writer.