The New Writers Project at the University of Texas at Austin is a three-year studio MFA program offering students close mentorship, literary community, and teaching and editing experience. We are a small, fully funded program within a large and highly-ranked Department of English. The NWP works in concert with its partner MFA program, the Michener Center for Writers, to provide an artistically adventurous and intellectually rigorous terminal degree. The MFA program requires a total of 48 hours of coursework, typically fulfilled through 16 three-credit courses, which students take across three years (six semesters, three courses per semester). Our students take several different kinds of courses and seminars to fulfill the course requirements. Writing workshops are the most important part of your coursework and are meant to provide a supportive and challenging environment in which you receive and provide constructive criticism. Our students also take Literature for Writers/Studies seminars offered by NWP faculty and visiting writers. Covering a wide range of topics, these seminars involve significant critical reading, writing, and analysis from a practitioner's point of view.