2011 MFA Rankings: The Top Ten Low-Residency Programs
The top ten low-residency MFA programs in the United States, plus a ranking of the additional thirty-six low residencies in the United States and beyond.
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2011 Poets & Writers Magazine Ranking of MFA Programs: A Guide to the Methodology
Size, funding, cost of living—there's plenty to consider when choosing a postgraduate creative writing program. In our second annual ranking of the top fifty MFA programs, contributor Seth Abramson measures sixteen distinct program features for the 148 full-residency programs in the United States, Canada, and New Zealand, and eight features for each of the 46 low-residency programs around the world.
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Inside Indie Bookstores: Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver
In the fifth installment of our series Inside Indie Bookstores, contributor Jeremiah Chamberlin travels to Denver to speak with Joyce Meskis, owner of Tattered Cover Book Store.
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2011 MFA Rankings: The Top Fifty
A combination of hard data from programs that release funding and admissions figures to the public and a vital survey of what the individuals comprising the next generation of U.S. poets and writers have to say about their own priorities in choosing a postgraduate program, here is a ranking of the nation's top fifty MFA programs.
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Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin
With so many good books being published every month, some literary titles worth exploring can get lost in the stacks. Page One offers the first lines of a dozen recently released books, including Paul Murray's Skippy Dies and Ai's No Surrender, as the starting point for a closer look at these new and noteworthy titles.
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Literary MagNet
Literary MagNet chronicles the start-ups and closures, successes and failures, anniversaries and accolades, changes of editorship and special issues—in short, the news and trends—of literary magazines in America. This issue's MagNet features Upstreet, the Iowa Review, Fogged Clarity, jubilat, Granta, and Cellpoems.
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Q&A: Legendre Starts New MA in U.K.
American novelist Thomas Legendre, who has worked with British poet Matthew Welton to develop a new creative writing program at the University of Nottingham, speaks about what makes study in England unique and what writers can gain from attending the new graduate program.
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Borders to Sell Build-A-Bear Merchandise, Poetry Rains on Berlin, and More
Borders will start selling Build-A-Bear merchandise; a Chilean art collective bombs Berlin with one hundred thousand poems; the Beijing Book Fair is off to a great start; the blurring line between comedy and poetry; and other news.
Mary Shelley's 213th Birthday, the Gertrude Stein Stein, and More
The Gertrude Stein stein and other "non-book literary oddities"; HarperCollins tests a new model of giving away content; the third edition of the OED may not appear in print, or it may; EcoGeek claims publishing industry raw materials come from the harvesting of 125 million trees per year; and other news.
Penguin Negotiates With Wylie, Six-Year-Old Lands Book Deal, and More
Andrew Wylie is in negotiations with Penguin over digitial rights of books for which the publisher owns print rights; a child in the United Kingdom lands a deal for twenty-three books; the New Yorker Festival announces its all-star lineup; and other news.
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