University of Arkansas Program in Creative Writing and Translation

University of Arkansas Program in Creative Writing and Translation We offer a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing with an emphasis in Fiction, Poetry, or Translation.

The Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, a 60-hour program begun at the University of Arkansas in 1966, has grown into one of the most productive and highly-ranked programs of its kind in America. Founded by English professors William Harrison and James Whitehead, and later joined by Miller Williams, the program was in the vanguard of a revolution to transform the traditional study of literatu

re into a demanding training ground for young writers. The writer-teachers and writer-students in the program, many of whom have won national fame and honors, have produced hundreds of works of fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction and translation.

BIG congrats to alum Kristin Entler! Their debut poetry collection, "Of Water Never Ceasing" is out now on Loblolly Pres...
06/09/2026

BIG congrats to alum Kristin Entler! Their debut poetry collection, "Of Water Never Ceasing" is out now on Loblolly Press.

05/20/2026

Tremendous news: Alum Jacob Shores-Argüello has been awarded a prestigious Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship!

Lasting an entire academic year, the fellowship awards scholars time and resources to conduct work on "groundbreaking projects."

Shores-Argüello "will write a novel told in pieces that draws on his transnational childhood across North and Central America to explore borders—between cultures, languages, and the natural world."

Congratulations, Jacob!

Rising third-year poet EK Krone has been named the winner of Arkana's Arkansas Writers Award AND the magazine's Editor's...
05/06/2026

Rising third-year poet EK Krone has been named the winner of Arkana's Arkansas Writers Award AND the magazine's Editor's Choice Award for her poems HUNTERS & GATHERERS and GENESIS. Kudos, EK!

Hear her read the poems here:

ARKANSAS WRITERS AWARD WINNER &EDITOR'S CHOICE AWARD BY EK KRONE hunters & gatherers everything i am is reinforced by everything i am not: boy means not girl, girl means not God, God means not real; not real as in the fact that i am a selfish girl: you give & i gather.you hunt & i

Curious about the art of literary translation? Professor Padma Viswanathan discusses the finer points of translating te...
05/04/2026

Curious about the art of literary translation?

Professor Padma Viswanathan discusses the finer points of translating texts into English on the most recent episode of Short Talks from the Hill.

Listen here:

Writer Padma Viswanathan, who teaches graduate-level creative writing and translation, is also a celebrated translator of Portuguese. She explains the practice, art and deeper purpose of translating fiction into English.

Poetry for this (almost!) end of semester Monday morning - "SOUTHERN LOVE SONG FOR Q***R GIRLS" by alum Dylan Hopper is ...
04/27/2026

Poetry for this (almost!) end of semester Monday morning - "SOUTHERN LOVE SONG FOR Q***R GIRLS" by alum Dylan Hopper is up at Scavengers now.

sunlight-dappled dirt rises in plumes thick as flour-caked biscuits or sticky pollen   kissin’ tulips, your Alabama mouth soft- presses into the corner of my Carolina eye,   dilates our jinxed past or what seems set in the stone cracked across the creek, erratic, another nam

Big congratulations to third-year fiction MFA Abuchi Modilim! Abuchi's story, AMERICAN ACTORS is up at Guernica now.
04/17/2026

Big congratulations to third-year fiction MFA Abuchi Modilim! Abuchi's story, AMERICAN ACTORS is up at Guernica now.

"We wanted to act out an American movie and shoot and shoot and shoot and shoot. We wanted to burn down the world like American actors."

Join us at Fayetteville Public Library as we welcome acclaimed author Stephen Graham Jones to Fayetteville next Tuesday,...
04/08/2026

Join us at Fayetteville Public Library as we welcome acclaimed author Stephen Graham Jones to Fayetteville next Tuesday, 4/14!

HEADS UP:
Book sales begin at 5pm, and Stephen Graham Jones is scheduled to do a book signing from 5-5:45pm prior to the event.

The University of Arkansas Program in Creative Writing & Translation is proud to present its 2025-26 Distinguished Reader, acclaimed novelist Stephen Graham Jones, for a reading, Q&A, and signing.. Event starts at April 14, 2026 6:00 PM CDT

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