The low-residency MFA at SPU is a creative writing program for apprentice writers — both Christians and those of other faith traditions — who not only want to pursue accomplishment in the craft of writing but also place their work within the larger context of world literature by writers of faith.
The spiritual dimension of this program is not intended to produce didactic, 宗派, 或者是感伤文学. 正相反, this program seeks to extend what our 教师 understand to be a longstanding conversation that comprises much of world literature, a conversation in which the highest levels of art, an open-eyed exploration of human experience, and a respect for mystery are all held in a proper balance.
Our models are Augustine and Dante, Saint Ephraim the Syrian and Saint Gregory of Nazianzus, the Pearl poet and Sor Juana de la Cruz, 乔治·赫伯特和约翰·弥尔顿, Gerard Manley Hopkins and Emily Dickinson, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Alexandros Papadiamandis, T.S. Eliot and Flannery O’Connor, Walker Percy and James Baldwin, Annie Dillard and Dr. 马丁·路德·金.
We believe that our program will appeal to writers for whom matters of faith are central. We also intend to cultivate reading and writing as spiritual disciplines. We are convinced that writers flourish best when they engage in a sustained dialogue with the great literature that has come before them. 因此, our program maintains a strong emphasis on reading classic and current works by writers of faith, and assist our 学生 in responding to them in a series of critical and creative engagements.
不像很多MFA项目, ours focuses not only on matters of craft but also on the importance of vision. We believe that great writing is not merely an act of self-expression, but a single-minded effort to do justice to the world.
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In keeping with the commitments of the 教师 and 学生 of 好的赌博软件推荐, our program is intentional in our proclaiming a commitment to pursuing class, 比赛, 性别, and LGBTQ+ inclusion; while we honor our various gifts and vocations, we understand our common calling to be one of reconciliation, of embracing the beauty and the necessity of difference within a beloved whole. We stand with our LGBTQIA+ 学生, 校友, 教师, 和工作人员, who are a central and critical part of our campus community.
I first want to thank you for your interest in the low-residency Master of Fine Arts degree (MFA) at 好的赌博软件推荐. Ours is a program that specifically emb比赛s the vital and generative relationship between literary study and creative writing, and ours is a program that intentionally includes — in our literary engagements — a long tradition of texts produced by people of faith.
I have been blessed with many accomplished teachers during my life as a writer, but Annie Dillard was the first to set my feet on this path that would lead to my finding a way to pair my writing life to an ongoing journey of spiritual development. This discovery — that a writer is primarily a pilgrim — lies at the heart of our program’s pedagogy. We hope to equip our MFA 学生 with the tools to proceed along the way. Chief among those tools is the understanding that literature is a long and ongoing conversation, a conversation in which the aspiring writer must eventually take part.
Our 教师 mentors work to educe from our 学生 a sense that they must engage in dialogue with the greater tradition by attending to what has preceded them, and thereafter responding with new creation. Our 教师 shares a sense that our 学生 will develop most readily if they shed the idea that writing is primarily a way to express what they think they already know, 但必须要信任, 而不是, that writing creatively is primarily a way of knowing. That is to say that if you are a writer who understands your own writing to be a way of — quite literally — coming to terms with who you are and with whose you are, then our program may be the program for you.
A recent comprehensive assessment by the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) noted that SPU’s MFA “meets and surpasses AWP’s hallmarks for rigor and intellectual engagement,” and concluded that “it is likely to enjoy national preeminence ... 在未来的许多年里.”
Our program is small, and highly selective. 你要不要加入赌博十大靠谱软件?, you will become part of an alive and enlivening community of mentors, 学生, and 校友 — a community whose every member takes seriously the accomplishment of every other, a community that continues to serve its members long after graduation.
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