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Center for Writers

The Center for Writers is the creative writing program at The University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, 90 miles north of New Orleans. There are forty or more students working toward M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in fiction and poetry with Angela Ball, Steven Barthelme, Julia Johnson, and visitors such as Lucie Brock-Broido, Francine Prose, Stephen Dobyns, Tim O'Brien, Percival Everett, Matthew Sharpe, Amy Hempel, Dana Gioia, Padgett Powell, Michael Waters, Mary Gaitskill, Julia Slavin, C. Michael Curtis, Elizabeth Gilbert, and others.

The Program

The Center is part of the Department of English and operates out of shared offices on the Hattiesburg campus. Writing students make up more than half of the graduate students in the English Department, and they come from colleges and universities all over the country, recently from Stanford, Vassar, Michigan, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Hollins, Tulane, Texas, Cornell, Columbia, and others.

The tone of the program is serious but informal. Workshops are offered in fiction, nonfiction prose, and poetry by the Center's distinguished faculty, and there are the usual specialized readings courses and traditional scholarly courses available. There is a student magazine, Product, as well as an ongoing student reading series, and the Center also publishes the Mississippi Review in print and online versions.

History

The Faculty

Notable Alumni