We are always looking for motivated individuals who share our passion. With humble beginnings extraordinary feats can be achieved. Learn More. Work With Us. View Job Openings. While this funding is renewed annually, we anticipate its continuation.
UT alumnus John Crawley created the grant as his way of giving back to the creative writing program that influenced his student life and future career. In order to remain in the MFA program and to maintain your funding package, students must be making adequate progress toward their degree. This includes maintaining at least a 3. Failure to meet any of these standards may result in non-renewal of funding or termination from the program. Available to all currently enrolled UT students, this annual prize in creative writing accepts submissions in fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction prose.
Established through an estate gift from UT graduate E. Keene, the Keene Prize stands as the most generous student-writing award in the country. The Michael Adams Prize, selected by distinguished external judges, gives yearly awards to one fiction and one poetry thesis. Students in the New Writers Project can gain editing experience with Bat City Review , our literary journal run entirely by graduate students.
The English Department offers a practicum in editing a literary journal, which serves as an introduction to the role of literary journals in the U. Submit the work you most believe in and that you consider finished. We're interested in a diversity of perspectives and approaches. For fiction, we accept up to 9, words of prose point font and double-spaced , which may be a short-story, short-story excerpt s , or a novel excerpt.
Include your first and last name and "NWP" in the header and file name of your writing sample. In this short single-spaced essay pages , discuss your specific areas of interest and professional goals. You may also want to explain your personal history of becoming a writer and why you want to teach. Include your first and last name and "NWP" in the header and file name of your statement of purpose.
The Department of English requires three letters of recommendation. We suggest that at least two of your three letters of recommendation describe your writing ability and potential for teaching. Recommendations from your supervisors or colleagues can help us determine how well you would fit into the program. After you submit your application and it loads on our system, the reference request email is sent to your recommenders.
To allow your recommenders adequate time to submit their recommendation, you can submit your application and then submit your online Statement of Purpose later.
The department will not accept letters from Interfolio. You will need to upload PDF copies of your official transcripts from each senior college that you have attended via your MyStatus profile. Transcripts must have been produced within the last calendar year. Please carefully read and follow the Instructions for Uploading Transcripts.
International Applicants : Transcripts written in a language other than English must be accompanied by an official translation. Each transcript mark sheet should contain a complete record of studies at the institution from which it is issued i.
More information about specific requirements for international applicants can be found here. Due to the high number of applications, the English Office cannot confirm the receipt of individual items. Applicants should check MyStatus to see admissions decisions and to confirm that all application materials are successfully uploaded.
Please note the New Writers Project and the Michener Center for Writers have separate admissions processes and separate applications.
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