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  HUNTER COLLEGE
  THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
  Dept. of English
  695 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10065
  T: 212 772 5164  F: 212 772 5411
  mfa@hunter.cuny.edu

Open House 2008 for Prospective MFA Students
(MFA faculty and current students talk about the program and answer your questions.)
Date: Tuesday October 28, 2008, at 7:30 pm
Location: Faculty Dining Room, 8th Floor, Hunter College, West Building,
Lexington Ave at 68th Street, New York City. (Take the 6-train to 68th St.)
RSVP to mfa@hunter.cuny.edu, with "Open House 2008 RSVP Fiction/Nonfiction/Poetry" (select the genre you're interested in applying for) and your name, in the subject line of your email. Your place is confirmed unless you hear otherwise. We look forward to seeing you there!

Walt Whitman wrote here.

Herman Melville wrote here.

Mary McCarthy wrote here. Allen Ginsberg, Joseph Brodsky, Edith Wharton, Toni Morrison, Ralph Ellison - the list of writers who have lived and worked in New York City could make a thick bound volume of its own.

New York's attractions are obvious enough. Writers come to be with writers, to deal with great publishers, to meet with the best agents, to be part of that jostling argumentative environment that is the center of the literary universe. Of course, as all the backseat drivers will tell you, New York may be a writer's town like no other, but it isn't cheap. There are tales, for instance, of poets and short story writers emerging from MFA programs $60,000 in debt. Can that be smart? For a writer? Even the truly great writers are meant to end, not to begin, their lives in poverty.

So, perhaps in considering the writing programs available at the center of the universe, you should acquaint yourself with the English Department at Hunter College, where you will find all of the advantages of New York City, as well as distinguished professors with international reputations, talented students, connections, and a continual flow of great writers who will visit your classroom.

Here you will find a two-year Fiction MFA, Poetry MFA or Nonfiction MFA for approximately $5,000 per year ($9,000 out-of-state) - too much for Walt Whitman, almost certainly, but then it seems he did not need our help.