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Creative Writing Program
The Creative Writing Program offers a Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing, an M.F.A. in English: Creative Writing, and offers students the opportunity to study under the tutelage of an award-winning faculty composed of world-renowned poets, novelist, and playwrights. Founded in 1979, the Creative Writing Program has attained national prominence based on its reputation, scholarship, curriculum, and the quality of faculty and students. It has consistently been rated second in the nation by U.S. News & World Report in its annual ranking of writing programs. The Program’s permanent and visiting faculty have published over 200 books and won 4 Pulitzer Prizes, 3 National Book Awards, a Prix de Rome, and many other prestigious awards.
Admission to the Creative Writing Program is extremely competitive, with only 10 new poetry and 10 new fiction students selected each year from the hundreds of applications received from around the world. Because the candidates that are accepted by the program are of such high caliber, quite a few win national writing awards and the majority have work accepted for publication while studying at UH. Most of our graduate students are awarded teaching assistantships to teach undergraduate classes here, and many also work with elementary and high school students through the acclaimed Writers in the Schools organization.
The Creative Writing Program fosters a thriving literary community in Houston and is active in developing a diverse audience for contemporary literature. Its prestigious Margarett Root Brown Houston Reading Series presents seven readings each year featuring some of the most important writers of fiction, poetry, and essays from around the nation and the world. Many of the literary programs, and all of the students of the Creative Writing Program, are supported by the generosity of Inprint, Inc., a unique nonprofit organization that acts as an independent advocate for the written word in general and the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston in particular.
www.uh.edu/cwp
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