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  • Our MFA, the Rainier Writing Workshop, is the Pacific Northwest’s premier low-residency Master of Fine Arts in creative writing.

    innovative three-year, four-residency program in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Mentorships with our faculty last for a full year, ensuring a high-quality experience at a more leisurely pace – ideal for busy professionals and those who wish to take time to develop their work’s fullest potential. Combining rigor and support, each mentorship year is tailored to the participant’s goals. Our faculty are nationally known writers who are also outstanding teachers.Connect With Us Request More

    Graduate Admission
    Pacific Lutheran University 12180 Park Avenue South Tacoma, WA 98447-0003
  • By Zach Powers ’10 PLU Marketing & Communications TACOMA, WASH. (July 27, 2015)- Known as the Rainier Writing Workshop (RWW), Pacific Lutheran University’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program challenges its students to consider difficult questions relating to artistry, self-awareness and commission. “What are…

    Rick Barot and Ann Pancake Discuss PLU’s MFA in Creative Writing and the Impact of Creative Writing (Podcast) Posted by: Zach Powers / July 27, 2015 Image: MFA Director Rick Barot and MFA mentor & instructor Ann Pancake at KPLU’s recording studio in downtown Seattle. [Photo by Zach Powers/PLU] July 27, 2015 By Zach Powers ’10PLU Marketing & Communications TACOMA, WASH. (July 27, 2015)- Known as the Rainier Writing Workshop (RWW), Pacific Lutheran University’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative

  • 44 semester hours M.F.A. Summer Residency An intensive ten-day residency during which students attend workshops, lectures, mini-courses in writing and design an independent course of study with a

    -one correspondence with a professional mentor in a genre or genres of choice. Each student spends approximately 15 hours per week on creative and critical writing. At the completion of the program, the students will produce a critical paper plus a book-length thesis. First year – 8 mailings. Second year – 5 mailings plus field experience. Third year – 6 mailings, critical paper, plus thesis. (4 to 12 semester hours per year, total of 28 semester hours required for graduation) Field Experience An

  • The Community for Creative Expression (CCE) challenges students to explore the meaning of creativity and innovation in our world and promotes creativity as a mechanism of expression, activism,

    disciplines Love dancing, paint, doodling, music, acting, writing, building, and more Program + Learning OutcomesBy participating in Community for Creative Expression, students will be able to: Articulate what creativity means in their own terms, as it relates to their chosen academic field of study Identify diverse ways to engage in “everyday creativity” in order to cultivate creativity as a lifelong practice or vocation Demonstrate critical reflection on personal identity and social justice through

  • Tuesday, February 25, 2014 “The Writer’s Story,” 3:30PM, Garfield Book Company Reading, 7:00PM, Scandinavian Cultural Center, Anderson University Center

    -reviews of poetry for Water-Stone Review out of Hamline University. Judith Kitchen serves on the faculty of the Rainier Writing Workshop MFA program at PLU. She is the author of a book of poetry, three collections of essays, a novel, and a critical study of William Stafford. In addition, she has edited three collections of short nonfiction pieces (In Short, In Brief, and Short Takes) for W. W. Norton and The Poet’s Guide to the Birds (with Ted Kooser) for Anhinga Press. Her most recent book is Half in

  • Poetry helps explain a complex world Rick Barot wasn’t looking for how to address worldly issues when he began writing poetry. “I think, like a lot of poets, I started in poetry having very self-serving reasons,” the PLU professor said. In college, it was therapeutic…

    November 11, 2009 Poetry helps explain a complex world Rick Barot wasn’t looking for how to address worldly issues when he began writing poetry. “I think, like a lot of poets, I started in poetry having very self-serving reasons,” the PLU professor said. In college, it was therapeutic and very much an emotional release. But as he learned the craft and honed his own skills, the complexity of it and how poetry can be used in addressing ethical, even moral values became clear. “These days, I think

  • Once you have signed up and been assigned to a writing group, the Provost’s Office can help with various aspects of the logistics: Finding and scheduling a common time for your group to meet

    Faculty Writing GroupsPrintable pdfDo you have writing projects on which you need to make progress but are having difficulty finding the time to do so? When your workload piles up, is your scholarly writing one of the first things to get pushed to the back burner or off of the stove completely? If so, you might be interested in joining a Faculty Writing Group!What is it?Faculty writing groups are small groups of faculty (3-6) who commit to meeting regularly in a designated space and spending

  • Marketing & Communications provides writing and editing support for print and online publications such as Resolute Magazine and Web homepage feature stories and a broad range of other

    Writing & EditingMarketing & Communications provides writing and editing support for print and online publications such as Resolute Magazine and Web homepage feature stories and a broad range of other publications. We support the work of many departments and organizations across campus, with major clients including the Office of Admission and the Office of Advancement. We prepare production schedules, plan story development, oversee writing assignments, direct photography and graphic design

  • The PLU Writing Center is a resource for all PLU writers and teachers of writing. Because we believe that all writers, whether novice or professional, benefit from feedback, our mission is to provide

    Welcome to the Writing Center For the 2024-2025 school year, the PLU Writing Center is offering a combination of in-person and virtual writing consultations to students who are on and off campus. Book an appointment and choose an appointment time using the button below. After you’ve selected a 30 or 60-minute appointment, your consultant will get in touch as soon as possible to arrange a format for the meeting. For in-person meetings, we are located on the second floor of the Mortvedt Library

    Writing Center
    Writing Center, Library 220 Tacoma, WA 98447-0003