The Alma College Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing offers the opportunity to enter an artistic community in which students will read deeply, study and hone their writing craft, and participate in energetic discussions that will help them see their poems, stories, essays, and memoirs in the context of current issues and events. Alma’s vigorous literature-based curriculum will serve them well, both as writers and a teachers.

• College transcripts for each college or university attended;
• Curriculum vitae (CV) or resume;
• A creative writing sample;
• Personal essay;
• Literature essay;
• Two letters of recommendation.