Please print, fill out and return this form (with manuscripts or publications) to: Graduate Program Administrator, University of California, Irvine, MFA Programs in Writing, Department of English, Irvine, CA 92697-2650.

1. NAME

2. ADDRESS 

3. COLLEGES ATTENDED, GPAS, DEGREES, AND DATES:

4. PUBLICATIONS:

5. LETTERS OF RECOMMENDATION:

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6. In addition to your application to the MFA Programs in Writing, you should send a minimum of ten poems for poetry, or two short stories or a short story and a chapter of a novel for fiction (the two fiction submissions combined should not exceed 40 pages). Photocopies are acceptable. These manuscripts will not be returned.

7. As it would be helpful to the Admissions Committee to know something about you, please attach an autobiographical sketch of 2-4 pages, concentrating especially on your background in writing and literature. We ask that this autobiographical sketch be separate from the Statement of Purpose, which is part of the application. The aim of the MFA Programs in Writing is to assist accomplished writers in the final stages of their achievement of professionalism in the field of poetry or fiction-writing. Although many writers and poets who have graduated from the Programs also teach, the concern of the Program is not to prepare students for teaching careers. The Admissions Committee is interested primarily in your writing. In your sketch you may wish to indicate what you regard as special in your background experience, writers or writing teachers you have studied with, reading which has influenced you as a writer, and the current direction of your writing. In short, we would like to find out as much as possible about your background as a writer in a few pages.

8. Please send your application with this form, your autobiographical sketch, and manuscripts to the address listed above.

9. Deadline for applications for admission to the MFA. Program is December 1 (for the following Fall). Admissions decisions will be made during the months of March and April.