The MFA Life | Sounds Like a Personal (Statement) Problem: A Generative Workshop to Help Get You Started
Are you applying to MFA programs? Are you unsure about how to make your personal statement stand out in the stack?
Join University of North Carolina-Wilmington MFA in Creative Writing faculty members Melissa Crowe, Sarah Domet, and Michael Ramos for a generative workshop on putting together a compelling statement of purpose for your application.
If you're working on your MFA application right now, this one's for you!
About the University of North Carolina-Wilmington MFA
The MFA at UNCW is a 48-hour apprenticeship, requiring a total of 21 hours of writing workshops, 21 hours of literature or other elective courses, and 6 thesis hours, leading to completion and defense of a substantial book-length manuscript of literary merit and publishable quality.
While students apply in poetry, fiction, or creative nonfiction and focus primarily on that genre, some cross-genre study is required. Coursework in editing and publishing, as well as a Certificate in Publishing program, is offered through our Publishing Laboratory. Experience in magazine and book production is offered in conjunction with our imprint Lookout Books and with Ecotone and Chautauqua, our department's national literary magazines. A new concentration in environmental writing allows students to explore the role of place in their writing.
Melissa Crowe
Melissa Crowe is the author of Dear Terror, Dear Splendor (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019) and Lo (University of Iowa Press, 2023), winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in 32 Poems, Copper Nickel, New England Review, Poetry Northwest, and Poetry, and she chairs the Department of Creative Writing at UNCW, where she teaches poetry and publishing.
Sarah Domet
Sarah Domet is the author of the novels The Guineveres and Everything Lost Returns, and the craft book 90 Days to Your Novel. She is the coordinator of the MFA program in creative writing at UNCW, where she also teaches fiction.
Michael Ramos
Michael Ramos is the author of The After: A Veterans Notes on Coming Home (UNC Press 2024). His work has appeared in Fourth Genre, Slice, Pank, the Sun, and other places. He is an assistant professor of creative writing at UNC Wilmington, where he also serves as art director for Ecotone magazine.