MASTER OF FINE ARTS IN CREATIVE WRITING at REINHARDT UNIVERSITY

MASTER OF FINE ARTS IN CREATIVE WRITING at REINHARDT UNIVERSITY

ETOWAH VALLEY LOW RESIDENCY PROGRAM

2-year/60-hour Program

Study One-on-One with Award-Winning Writers

Online Courses

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3 Writing Residencies

3 Entry Points to Start in the Program

Beautiful Rural Campus Nestled in the Etowah Valley (550+ acres)

Nestled in the shadow of Pine Log Mountain for the perfect writing experience, the Etowah Valley is a bridge between Atlanta and the Appalachian South, where nature meets culture.

At Reinhardt University’s Etowah Valley Master of Fine Arts (MFA) Low-Residency Program writers create a literature that is story-driven and grounded in the places where we live, whether rural or urban.

Each summer, students visit our beautiful campus in North Georgia for a 10-day intensive residency to be immersed in writing daily writing workshops, craft classes, experiential excursions into natural and urban environments, and nightly readings on campus from our visiting writers.

Our students travel from all over the United States to attend the summer residency to learn from some of the finest writers. In doing so, they embody a unique mixture of cultural traditions and lifestyles. Amid the thriving Atlanta film scene and Southern environmentalism, we believe in the art of storytelling that develops voice and meaning to the individual artist.

For more information, visit the MFA website or contact the MFA director, William Walsh, at bjw@reinhardt.edu

Core Faculty:

Anjali Enjeti

(creative non-fiction/fiction)

Southbound: Essays on Identity, Inheritance, and Social Change

The Parted Earth

Jessica Handler

(creative non-fiction/fiction)

The Magnetic Girl

Invisible Sisters

Soniah Kamal

(fiction)

An Isolated Incident

Unmarriageable

Donna Coffey Little

(poetry/fiction)

Fire Street

Wofford’s Blood

Michael Lucker

(screenwriting)

Crash! Boom! Bang! How to Write Action Movies

Rule One

Laura Newbern

(poetry)

Love and the Eye

A Night in the Country

Gray Stewart

(fiction)

Haylow

Megan Volpert

(poetry/creative non-fiction)

Why Alanis Morissette Matters

Boss Broad

William Walsh

(poetry/fiction)

Haircuts for the Dead

Fly Fishing in Times Square

John Williams

(fiction/creative non-fiction)

End Times

Monroeville and the Stage Production of To Kill a Mockingbird

Past Visiting Writers:

Adrian Blevins, Daniel Black, David Bottoms, Richard Blanco, Earl Braggs, Jericho Brown, Annemarie Ni Churreáin, Denise Duhamel, Stephen Dunn, Pam Durban, Alice Friman, Anthony Grooms, Beth Gylys, Ann Hite, Kristie Robin Johnson, Andrea Jurjević, John Lane, Ellen Malphrus, Reginald McKnight, Christopher Noel, Robert Olmstead, Janisse Ray, Megan Sexton, George Singleton, Sharon Strange, Chika Unigwe, Monica Lee Weatherly