Creative Writing MFA

We write novels. We craft stories and essays.  We build community.

Join a program uniquely focused on the novel with specializations in narrative and the lyric essay. We’re a community of writers committed to our craft.

Professional Development

The Roosevelt MFA program provides students with multiple opportunities for collaboration both inside and outside the University to better prepare you for the professional communities you’ll encounter when you finish the degree. Through our Writer-in-Residence and visiting writer series, we bring six writers a year to campus to discuss and read from their works, workshop student manuscripts, and mentor students in the writing life itself. Recent and current visiting writers include: Eula Biss, John Dufresne, Ben Fountain, Albert Goldbarth, Kathleen Rooney, Heather Sellers, Christine Sneed, and Patrick Somerville. We also offer students teaching internships and a credential for the teaching of writing; publishing internships with the Oyez Review; and community writing internships with Chicago nonprofit and arts organizations.

The Roosevelt MFA Blog

Dear Blog,

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 14:44:00 +0000

Please join me at the casual end of the semester MFA reading at the Book Cellar independent book store in quaint Lincoln Square. It is this Saturday at 7pm.

You are a beautiful blog.

Love,
Dove

Roosevelt Reading Series: Kevin Brockmeier

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 15:29:00 +0000

What are you doing Wednesday, 4/10? Going to see Kevin Brockmeier at the Gage Gallery, of course! Stop by the Gage Gallery, 18 S. Michigan Ave., and hear a truly exceptional writer share some of his finest work. Doors open at 4:30 with Kevin taking the podium at 5. Light refreshment's will be served, courtesy of Roosevelt's MFA program. Admission is free and open to the public. Get there early as it's sure to be a packed house.

Kevin Brockmeier is the author of the novels The Illumination, The Brief History of the Dead, and The Truth About Celia; the children’s novels City of Names and Grooves: A Kind of Mystery; and the story collections Things That Fall from the Sky and The View from the Seventh Layer. His work has been translated into seventeen languages, and he has published his stories in such venues as The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, Zoetrope, Tin House, The Oxford American, The Georgia Review, The Best American Short Stories, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, and New Stories from the South. He has received the Borders Original Voices Award, three O. Henry Awards (one, a first prize), the PEN USA Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and an NEA Grant. Recently he was named one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists. He lives in Little Rock, Arkansas, where he was raised.

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