The University of Nebraska MFA in Writing is excited to announce the launch of our

NEW TRACK in

Applications are now being accepted in Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Playwriting, or Poetry

for the July 20-29, 2012 Residency and Fall 2012 Semester.

For more information, contact Jenna Lucas Finn.

Program Overview

The UN MFA in Writing Program offers focused instruction for creative writers who are committed to a literary career. The program is composed of four 16-week semesters and five 10-day conference-style residencies. The semesters and residencies are integrated to help those who desire to hone their writing and critical thinking in order to participate competitively in the wider domain of contemporary American letters.

Our Faculty Mentors are chosen not only on the basis of their literary and teaching accomplishments, but also because their approaches to teaching and the craft of writing coincide with our emphasis on Mentorship.

SPOTLIGHT

Recent News & Kudos

 For more News & Kudos, contact Jenna Lucas Finn for access to our UN MFA Organization.

Shanan Ballam (Class of July '07) ~ Poetry ~ Finishing Line Press is now accepting orders for Shanan's chapbook, "The Red Riding Hood Papers." Shanan's work has appeared or is forthcoming in Calyx, Poetry Now, South Dakota Review, Sow's Ear, Indiana Review, Crab Orchard Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Tar River Poetry, Cream City Review, American Poetry Journal, Whistling Shade, and SNReview. Her full-length manuscript, "Pretty Marrow," was a finalist for the 2010 May Swenson Poetry Award, and Indiana Review nominated her poem, "Red Riding Hood to Grandmother," for inclusion in the 2009 Best New Poets Anthology.

Jerry VanIeperen (Class of December ‘08) ~ Poetry ~ Jerry’s work has been recently published in Redactions, Plainsongs, and Northville Review. In addition, Jerry is a founding editor of Sugar House Review, a semiannual poetry journal. SHR’s debut issue published the 2010 Pushcart Prize-winning poem by Paul Muldoon entitled “Capriccio in E Minor for Blowfly and Strings.” 

Alan Tessaro (Class of December '08) ~ Poetry ~ Alan's poem "3:30 A.M." (originally published in Milspeak Memo) was nominated for a 2009 Pushcart Prize.

Timothy Black (Class of July '10) ~ His first novella, Connecticut Shade (Wayne State College Press, 2009), is now also available on Amazon.com. Tim has been accepted into Cave Canem.

Gary Dop (Class of December '07) ~ Poetry ~ Gary’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in New Letters, North American Review, Poetry Northwest, Poet Lore, The New York Quarterly, Sow's Ear Poetry Review, Rattle, Agni, Green Mountains Review, Anti-Poetry, Coachella Review, Hotel Amerika, Cave Wall, Blue Earth Review, Center, the Poetry Foundation's syndicated newspaper column, American Life in Poetry, and in the anthology Filling the Empty Room.

Elizabeth Kay (Class of July ‘09) was awarded the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize for 2008.  Liz’s poetry has also appeared or is forthcoming inWillow Springs, Ouroborus Review,  Redactions: Poetry & Poetics, Iron Horse Literary review, and Summerset Review.

Jeff Lacy (Class of July '07) ~ Short Stories ~ Jeff’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Timber Creek Review, Greensilk Journal, Storyglossia, The Legendary, Mary Magazine, Writer's Bloc, Darkness Before Dawn, Wrong Tree Review, CONTE, Review Americana, Full of Crow, and Fiction Collective.

Keli Stafford (Class of December '09)  ~ Poetry ~ "After Some Consideration," was chosen as an honorable mention in the Thomas Merton Poetry of the Sacred Prize ($100 cash prize), and her poetry manuscript was a semi-finalist in the 2008 Codhill Press Poetry Chapbook Prize. Keli's work has appeared or is forthcoming in Grasslimb; Superstition Review, Mississippi Crow Magazine, Caesura, Whiskey Island Magazine,  Chronogram, Poetry Salzburg Review, Tipton Poetry Journal, Gertrude: A Journal of Voice and Vision, Crucible, Blue Earth Review, and VoiceCatcher 2008, an anthology of Portland area women writers.

Natalia Treviňo (Current Student) Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize for 2008 for Afterlife; Well, God; It was the Chef who finally explained ($5,000 cash prize).

Philip Weitl (Class of July '08) ~Essays~ "Two Rows of Corn" won the Flint Hills Review's annual Creative Nonfiction contest (published 2010), "Archeology" earned runner-up honors in the Georgetown Review's annual writing contest (published 2010), "Change of Seasons" earned runner-up honors in The Briar Cliff Review's annual Creative Nonfiction contest (published 2009), "Restless" will appear in the November 2010 issue of Jelly Bucket.  Phil’s essays also appear in Next Text, a college textbook by Bedford St. Martins, and Nebraska Life magazine, for which he is also a regular columnist.  He was also recently named the 2010 Doane College Teacher of the Year.