From Columbia College Chicago's Website:
Columbia College Chicago's Creative Writing - Nonfiction (MFA) program is designed to provide students unique opportunities to study, read, write, edit, and teach with leading authors and scholars in the field, preparing them to make a living through their passion for writing. Our focused curriculum covers a broad range of nonfiction approaches: the personal essay, lyric essay, memoir, prose poetry, nonfiction film, and hybrid works that combine genres. Students enrolled in this program will explore the theory of nonfiction with our widely published and celebrated faculty, while also working closely with them in thesis seminars to develop their own voice and style. The experience culminates in the thesis project, a book-length manuscript of publishable quality.
Our Graduate Student Instructorship program allows select students the opportunity to gain important teaching experience through the English Department's First Year Writing program. In addition, students participate in Columbia's Creative Nonfiction Week, an annual event sponsored by our English, Journalism and Fiction Writing departments. Nonfiction Week explores the diversity of voices and points of view that make creative nonfiction a rich form of literature, and is an opportunity for the College to welcome distinguished authors to campus for a series of readings, lectures, and panel discussions.
For more information, see the Columbia College Chicago - Nonfiction Program web page.
