Northwestern’s two-year MFA cultivates distinctive voices across fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and hybrid forms. Morning craft seminars unpack narrative architecture and lyric impulse; afternoon industry intensives pair students with editors from Graywolf, podcast producers from Gimlet, and literary-scouting teams at Netflix. A teaching fellowship hones pedagogy, while the Chicago lit-scene— from Printer’s Row readings to indie-press residencies—offers abundant stages for debut work. Graduates depart with a polished manuscript, a professional network, and the entrepreneurial savvy to sustain an artistic career.
Draft a linked-story collection exploring Midwestern climate migration
Compose a hybrid memoir weaving archival footnotes and speculative fiction
Create a podcast mini-series featuring sound-designed micro-essays
Design a community writing-workshop curriculum for incarcerated writers
Run a Kickstarter to publish a bilingual chapbook in letter-pressed editions
Use AI text-generation as a constraint in an experimental novella project
Launch a digital literary magazine showcasing disability poetics
Curate a site-specific reading series aboard Chicago’s ‘L’ trains
Map historical redlining through lyric essays and interactive GIS visuals
Translate and annotate forgotten Yiddish women poets for a modern audience
Write a screenplay adaptation of a thesis short story for an indie film grant
Develop an Instagram poetry campaign with AR overlays on city landmarks
Research narrative medicine and craft flash-nonfiction for medical journals
Pilot a revenue-share model between writers and indie bookstores via NFTs
Document oral histories of Great Lakes fishermen and shape them into verse
Hone your craft and launch your literary career with Northwestern’s MFA.
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