创意写作硕士课程是一个小型，密集的一年制课程（两到三个学期）。该计划的目标是帮助我们的每个学生成为更好的原创散文和诗歌作家，并培养出最高质量的读者，评论家，诗人和作家。该计划使作家准备好成为对其自己的作品和他人的更好的批评家并进行教学。MFA通常是在一年的八个课程之后颁发的，这四个课程是四个创意写作研讨会和四个文学课程，其中一个文学课程可以是BU的著名翻译研讨会。我们的大多数学生在一年零两个学期加一个暑假的时间内完成课程。为了毕业，他们需要写一篇论文，小说要90页，诗歌要35页，这要反映出工作坊的经验。我
Thank you for your interest in the Boston University MFA Program in Creative Writing, one of the oldest and most prestigious programs in this country. Our alumni in poetry include Elizabeth Alexander, Erin Belieu, Rafael Campo, Melissa Green, Glyn Maxwell, Carl Phillips and Don Share, in fiction, our alumni include Peter Ho Davies, Arthur Golden, Ha Jin, Jhumpa Lahiri, Askold Melnyczuk, Melanie Rae-Thon, Weike Wang, and Lisa Taddeo. The Atlantic magazine has ranked our program among the top five percent of all creative writing programs for the distinction of its faculty and alumni, and has ranked ours among the top ten programs overall.<br><br>Most notably, however, our program offers to poets and fiction writers in a single year (usually including summer study) a rigorous combination of literary study and focus on craft equivalent to what other MFA programs accomplish in two years. Our program also offers practical experience in teaching creative writing at the high school or undergraduate level through teaching fellowships. Such an intensive curriculum is only possible because of the dedication, talent and energy of the students who choose to attend the BU MFA Program. The accelerated nature of the program creates close bonds between each year's cohorts of poets and fiction writers, who also benefit from the intellectual and artistic stimulation of being part of a large university in one of the most lively and beautiful cities in the United States. Finally, our students have the opportunity for world language study, including the option of taking BU's renowned Translation Seminar, culminating in a Global Fellowship that affords them the opportunity for travel, writing, and study for a period of up to three months anywhere outside of the United States.