Are you a writer interested in applying for an MFA or PhD in Creative Writing and English Literature? Then Creative Writing News is proud to present our Application Webinar. 

Creative Writing News is happy to announce not one but two webinars to help aspiring African writers learn about applying to schools for MFA and PhD in Creative Writing and English Literature. The panels feature writers who have passed through the hurdles of the application process in various schools and are ready to give back to others to help them in their own process.

 

Creative Writing News MFA Application Webinar

Thank you to the speakers who made themselves available for the MFA Application Webinar. You can access the video below:

Part One

Part Two

 

Here are some additional articles to help you with your Creative Writing MFA journey.

• Article on MFA Scholarships
• Pros and Cons of an MFA Scholarship
• How to write a Statement of Purpose

 

Speakers

 

 

Ugochukwu Damian Okpara (he/him) is a Nigerian-born writer and poet. He is the author of the poetry collection In Gorgeous Display (Fordham University Press, Sept 2023) and the poetry chapbook I Know the Origin of My Tremor (Sundress Publications, 2021). A 2023 Lambda Literary Fellow and an alumnus of both the Tin House Summer Workshop and Chimamanda Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus Trust Creative Writing Workshop, his work has appeared in POETRY, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Greensboro Review, and other publications. Currently, he is an MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Mississippi. Website: www.ugochukwudamian.com

 

Chibuike Ogbonnaya‘s fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Green Mountains Review, The Forge Literary Magazine, Black Femme Collective, and other publications. They were a 2023 Lambda Fellow for Fiction and a 2024 Anaphora Writing Resident. Their writing has received support from Pen America and the University of Notre Dame. Chibuike was recently awarded the Nicholas Sparks Fellowship from the University of Notre Dame, where they earned their MFA in Creative Writing.