Welcome to the information page for UNO's innovative Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing, the first low residency MFA program to combine distance learning with study-abroad. Since 1973, when our Division of International Education was founded, almost ten thousand students have participated in our study-abroad programs in Europe, Africa, and Asia. And over the past decade more than a thousand writers have participated in our workshops and literature classes abroad.

The low residency MFA in Creative Writing is based on our workshops in Madrid , Spain; Montpellier, France; and the poetry workshop at Ezra Pound's castle in Brunnenburg , Italy. Two or three summer semesters abroad are combined with distance (online) classes taken during the intervening fall and spring semesters to create a curriculum that is engaging, challenging, and fun, with a flexible schedule that can accommodate any aspiring writer, from the traditional student just out of undergraduate school, to the "non-traditional" writer returning to graduate school after some time. Many of our students work full time and appreciate the flexible weekly schedules the online courses afford. Complete requirements and a sample curriculum are listed at the bottom of this page.

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