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Research and聽Teaching Assistantships

The MFA Program in Creative Writing is able to fund 40% of its students with Teaching Assistantships and Fellowships. These funding packages are awarded on a competitive basis. If you are admitted to the Creative Writing Program, you will automatically be considered for a teaching assistantship or a fellowship.

Financial aid information for the MFA program (PDF).

As a graduate student, you may apply for a research or teaching assistantship.

• Research assistantships are awarded competitively. Research assistants work up to 20 hours a week and are compensated with a basic health insurance plan, a stipend and tuition remission.
• Teaching assistantships typically require you to work 20 hours a week in support of the department鈥檚 undergraduate programs. You鈥檒l be compensated with a basic health insurance plan, nine credits of tuition remission per term and a nine-month stipend.

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MFA Program Scholarships

MFA program scholarship and award recipients are selected by the department faculty each year. If you have questions regarding departmental awards, contact your faculty advisor.

Scholarships available to聽students in the Creative Writing MFA include the following opportunities.

• The Frances Tebet Israel Prize in Poetry and Fiction is given at the end of every year for the best master鈥檚 thesis in poetry and the best master鈥檚 thesis in fiction.
• The Joseph Beam Scholarship Prize is awarded annually to a student in the creative writing program who has demonstrated academic achievement and financial need, and has written an essay or literary piece of interest and importance to sexual minorities.
• The William H. Gunn Scholarship in Creative Writing provides financial aid to graduate students enrolled in the creative writing program.

External Funding

Certain organizations outside of 51动漫 provide grants, fellowships, scholarships and other awards for graduate students. .