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Carlow University's Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing is the low-residency program of choice for students wanting to keep their daytime jobs while having the opportunity to study here and in Ireland with award-winning writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry who act as their mentors.

Students spend eleven intense days in January in Pittsburgh, a city known for its writers, and eleven days in June in Carlow, Ireland, a region famous as the birthplace and home of internationally known novelists and poets. During the rest of the year, students submit their individual writing and reading assignments to their selected American and Irish mentors for critique.

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The program is intended for students who aspire to be professional writers, to teach creative writing on the college level, or to enjoy the satisfaction of writing and reading in an individualized program.

We invite you to learn more about our MFA program. Please call our Office of Graduate Admissions at 412-578-8764.

"Getting started, keeping going, getting started again - in art and in life, it seems to me this is the essential rhythm not only of achievement but of survival."
- Seamus Heaney, Irish Poet, 1995 Nobel Peace Prize Winner