University of Houston Creative Writing Program

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The University of Houston Creative writing program is a graduate fiction and poetry program located in Houston, Texas. It was rated second in the nation by U.S. News & World Report in its first annual ranking of writing programs in 1997. The Creative Writing Program offers a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing and an MFA in English: Creative Writing. The Creative Writing Program at The University of Houston was founded by the writer Donald Barthelme.

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Donald Barthelme and Cythia MacDonald founded The University of Houston Creative Writing Program.

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Student and alumni honors include Guggenheim Fellowships, National Endowment for the Arts Poetry and Fiction Fellowships, Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowships, "Discovery"/The Nation Prizes, a Prix de Rome in Literature, Associated Writing Programs Award Series Prizes for the novel, Henfield Foundation Transatlantic Review Fiction Awards, Wallace Stegner Fellowships, the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America, a National Poetry Series selection, a Whiting Writers' Award, and selections in Best New American Voices.

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