CAMPUS VISITS

While we are happy to answer questions about our graduate programs via email and to meet with anyone who has been admitted to the MFA program, it is difficult for us to meet with potential applicants or applicants who have yet to be accepted. We wish this were not the case, but we are a small group trying to run three significant programs and teach our classes and attend our meetings and then there's that writing thing we try to find time for. We just have no time to meet with all the applicants who would like to come to Madison. We also worry that it's a bit unfair for some people to have what amounts to on-campus interviews and others not to have that face-time.

The bottom line, then, is that we strongly discourage visits from potential applicants or applicants who have not been admitted into the program.

That said, if for some reason you feel it is absolutely critical that you meet with faculty prior to applying or being admitted, please contact the MFA program director and we'll see what we can do.

If you wish to email a former or current MFA student about the program, we can provide you with an email address or two, but given that we have only six students in each genre generously trying to answer questions for our many, many applicants, we trust you will be respectful of their time.

You are always welcome to come to campus and either take one of the University's free guided tours or self-tour yourself around. Feel free to poke your head in the Creative Writing suite at 6195 Helen C. White Hall. Keep in mind that we are housed in a separate suite on the sixth floor of Helen C. White Hall. We are NOT in the English Department's graduate offices on the 7th floor of Helen C. White Hall and while the staff there will try to be helpful, they don't always know how to respond to queries about our program. If you don't see a dartboard and several glass bookcases full of our books and you don't hear laughter, then you are not in the Creative Writing suite.