The brief-residency program at Eastern provides students with the opportunity to enter an intensive course of graduate study in creative writing with minimal disruption of their everyday lives. During a series of one to three writing residencies each year (held in Lexington, KY and/or San Miguel de Allende, Mexico), students will spend—depending upon their own schedules outside the program—two to six weeks each year in workshops, craft lectures, and writing seminars taught by a distinguished group of visiting artists and permanent EKU faculty members. The remainder of the program is conducted via online courses, which students may complete entirely from home, regardless of where they live in the world.

Why study creative writing at EKU?

• One of the most affordable low-residency programs in the nation
• Nationally recognized, highly published, and prize-winning permanent faculty members and visiting writers
• Advantageous student to faculty ratio
• Opportunities to study fiction, poetry, or creative non-fiction
• Opportunities to work in more than one creative genre
• Opportunities to study abroad
• Presentations by visiting editors and agents
• Preparation for careers in writing, publishing, and editing

Winter 2010 Residency

Start the new year creatively by attending one or more readings held in conjunction with the MFA program's winter residency in Lexington, January 1 through 10. Our featured writer this year is Joyce Carol Oates who will appear on January 9 at Black Box Theater. Other writers reading include Chris Offutt, Cecelia Woloch, Lee Durkee, Charles Rafferty, Christopher Cokinos, Kathe Lison, Margaret McMullan, and Steve Almond. EKU faculty will also read and a night of student readings is scheduled as well. The full schedule is below with event locations following. The events are free and author's books will be on hand for purchase and signing.

See the complete Reading Schedule under Calendar of Events

Join us for our Summer Residency in Mexico
The Writing Workshops
in San Miguel de Allende
June 20 – July 17, 2009