Low Residency Master of Fine Arts in Narrative Media Writing
Low Residency Master of Fine
Arts in Narrative Media Writing
Earn your Master of Fine Arts in Narrative Media Writing and write a publishable nonfiction manuscript or a marketable screenplay in two years. There are two tracks offered in our low-residency MFA program: Narrative Nonfiction and Screenwriting. Please note, at present, this MFA degree program, because of the financial costs involved, is unable to admit students seeking to use either the Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) or the 62+ Program.
Overview
Do you want to write a nonfiction book or a marketable screenplay and earn a Master of Fine Arts in just two years? We offer a low-residency program at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, home of the Peabody Awards and one of the top journalism schools in the country.
Our program is designed to help writers hone their skills and generate work that will be published and produced.
Our program is at once rigorous and supportive. We expose students to a roster of diverse and accomplished authors, screenwriters, literary agents and other industry professionals who work with our students in an inclusive and inspiring learning environment that nurtures each writer’s emerging craft and voice. We offer students an unparalleled opportunity to develop narrative journalism and screenwriting skills that will equip them for long and varied careers.
Students explore long-form storytelling through research-based narratives that rise to the level of literature.
Educates students in new creative opportunities in telling stories that matter for large and small screens.
MFA Narrative Nonfiction
Director Moni Basu
Moni Basu is the director of the low-residency Master in Fine Arts in Narrative Nonfiction program and the Charlayne Hunter-Gault Distinguished Writer in Residence at Grady College. Basu has been a distinguished professor of practice at Grady College since 2015, serving as a visiting writer and mentor in the nonfiction MFA program launched by the late Valerie Boyd, who died in February 2022.
Previously, Basu was the Michael and Linda Connelly Lecturer in Narrative Nonfiction at the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications. She was named UF’s Teacher of the Year in 2020.
Before teaching, Basu was an award-winning senior writer at CNN and a reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She covered the Iraq War and wrote an e-book, “Chaplain Turner’s War.” Basu has also served as an editor-at-large for The Bitter Southerner and The Groundtruth Project.
MFA Narrative Screenwriting
Director Nate Kohn
Kohn directs the low-residency MFA Screenwriting program, in addition to serving as a professor in Entertainment and Media Studies and director of Ebertfest, the Roger Ebert Film Festival. Dr. Kohn teaches advanced screenwriting, producing for film/television, documentary film, and qualitative methods and directs the Cannes Film Festival and Cannes Lions Study Abroad programs.
Dr. Kohn is an award-winning producer of feature films and television programs. He produced “Zulu Dawn” starring Burt Lancaster and Peter O’Toole; the independent feature “Somebodies,” which premiered at Sundance (2006) and the feature length documentary “Bayou Maharajah” that premiered at the SXSW Festival (2013), among others. He also produced the Emmy Award-winning short documentary, “Ebertfest 2012;” and he was executive producer of several Peabody Awards specials for PivotTV/Participant Media (2014, 2015 and 2016). He has served on juries and mentored screenwriters at the Atlanta, Hawaii, Kerala and Bahamas International Film Festivals. He is a board member of the Arkansas Cinema Society, and is the author of of the book “Pursuing Hollywood: Seduction, Obsession, Dread” (AltaMira Press, 2006), and numerous scholarly articles.
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Hear tell Podcast
Listen to the narrative nonfiction podcast Hear-Tell which features writing from current low-residency MFA students, alumni, faculty and visiting lecturers.
