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A Master of Professional Writing Program is a type of graduate degree program in
professional writing.
Chatham University in Pennsylvania has an online MPW program.
[1] The
University of Southern California's MPW program ended in May 2016,
[2]
[3]
[4]
[5] at which point it moved to the
Vermont College of Fine Arts under the new name the School of Writing and Publishing.
[6]
Notable alumni of the USC program
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Millicent Borges Accardi, poet and recipient of a
National Endowment for the Arts
fellowship, author of four poetry books
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Mark Andrus, author of
As Good as It Gets and
Life as a House
- Margaret Davis, author of biographies of
William Mulholland and
Edward L. Doheny
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Frederick Johnson,
Emmy- and
WGA Award-winning writer of
daytime television serials
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Charlotte Laws, author and
animal rights advocate
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EM Lewis, playwright
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Sandra Tsing Loh, radio commentator and author
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Gina Nahai, author of Cry of the Peacock
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Greg Rucka, writer of novels and
comic books
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Ann Seaman, author of biographies of
Jimmy Swaggart and
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
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Charles_Harper_Webb, poet, Guggenheim Fellow
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Lee Wochner, playwright
Notable faculty of the USC program
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Shelley Berman, humor writing
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Nan Cohen, poetry
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Syd Field, screenwriting
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Janet Fitch, fiction
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Noel Riley Fitch, non-fiction
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Donald Freed, playwriting
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Amy Gerstler, poetry
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Dana Goodyear, non-fiction
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Janet Irvin, fiction
- Marty Isenberg, animation
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Irvin Kershner, cinema/TV
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Jerome Lawrence, playwriting
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Dinah Lenney, non-fiction
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Gerald Locklin, poetry, fiction
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Larry the Cable Guy, cinema/TV
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MG Lord, non-fiction
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Shelly Lowenkopf, fiction, publishing
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David Scott Milton, playwriting
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Gina Nahai, fiction
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Gabrielle Pina, fiction
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Robert Pirosh, cinema/TV
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Beata Pozniak, drama/film/TV
- Michael Price, animation writing
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James Ragan, poetry and program director for 25 years
[7]
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John Rechy, fiction
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Aram Saroyan, poetry, fiction
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Hubert Selby Jr., fiction
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Melville Shavelson, cinema/TV
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Gay Talese, non-fiction
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Shirley Thomas,
technical writing
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Kenneth Turan, film
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Lee Wochner, playwriting
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Richard Yates, fiction
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