Creative
Writing
Florida State University
405 Williams Building
Tallahassee, Florida
32306-1580
tdw06c@fsu.edu
Phone: 850 644 4230
Fax: 850 644 0811
In 2006, The Atlantic Monthly ranked the top ten MFA programs and the top five PhD programs in the country. Only one program made both of those lists: Florida State University. The Creative Writing Program is now affiliated with FSU's top-ranked schools of Film and Theatre. Our faculty includes winners of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, as well as professors who are not only dedicated to the craft of writing but who are also widely known as teachers of the craft. We also happen to be located in the heart of Tallahassee: a capital city with Southern charm, where the roads are lined with live oaks and the world's best oysters are shucked fresh from the Gulf.
Writers Harvest
Robert Pinsky
November 10, 2009
Please join Florida State University's English Department as we partner with America;s Second Harvest to host our annual Writers Harvest. America's Second Harvest of the Big Bend is the food bank that distributes over three million pounds of food every year, equaling two million meals, for those in need. This year we are privileged to have former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky read his works alongside a jazz ensemble in the Grand Ballroom at the Alumni Center. Pinsky is the author of several books of poetry, prose, and translations. He has also been a guest on the Colbert Report and, a little known fact, the voice of a Simpsons character. The program starts at 8:00 pm but come early to bid in our silent auction. Entry is a $10 donation at the door.
We are extremely proud of our graduate students, the lifeblood of our program. No creative writing program in the country has been included more often in Harcourt's Best New American Voices. Recent graduates have published books with Hyperion, Norton, Viking, MacAdam/Cage, Penguin, Henry Holt, Simon & Schuster, Copper Canyon, Houghton Mifflin, and several university presses. Our students have published in The Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, The Southern Review, Harper's, Ploughshares, and many other distinguished magazines, as well as read on NPR's Our poets have gone on to capture major national poetry prizes resulting in book publication, including the Prairie Schooner Book Prize, the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry, and The Brittingham Poetry Prize.
Click here to see a small sampling of the recent publications and awards from our dynamic graduate students and alumni.