APPLYING TO THE CREATIVE WRITING PROGRAM:

First-year or transfer students who want to join the Creative Writing Program at UMF should:

1. Submit 10-12 pages of their own written work with their UMF application. This written work should include excerpts or samples of work in fiction, non-fiction, and poetry.

2.  Submit a short statement about why they want to declare Creative Writing as their major.

CHANGING YOUR MAJOR TO CREATIVE WRITING:

Once you are enrolled at UMF, you may apply to change your major to Creative Writing by preparing an application to the BFA Program. The application should include:

1. A cover sheet containing your phone number, address and current major.

2. A current UMF transcript (available from the Registrar).

3. A writing sample from two or more of the following genres: poetry, fiction, nonfiction. No more than 15 pages of prose, or six poems.

4. A one-paragraph assessment of yourself as a creative writer and why you want to declare Creative Writing as a major.

Please leave the application with Shari Witham, Humanities Department Administrative Assistant, in 209 Roberts. You may also send your application to her at Department of Humanities, 209 Roberts, 270 Main Street, Farmington, ME 04938. If you have questions please call her at 207-778-7451.

DEADLINES: October 1 and February 1

NOTIFICATION: The creative writing faculty normally notifies candidates about admission during pre-registration each semester.