Transcript:
Mail original, official transcript indicating the completion of a bachelor’s degree with a GPA of 3.0 or higher to:
Rutgers University–Camden
Office of Undergraduate and Graduate Admissions
406 Penn Street
Camden, NJ 08102
Personal Statement:
Your personal statement should include information about your writing background and goals. In the personal statement you may also indicate whether you are interested in an interdisciplinary fellowship.
Email your personal statement as a Word or PDF attachment to: mfa@camden.rutgers.edu.
Please put your name and “personal statement” in your email subject line.
Recommendation Letter:
As part of the online application, you will be asked to provide the email addresses for the two people who will write your letters of recommendation. Once you submit your online application, your recommenders will receive an email from Graduate Admissions requesting that they submit their recommendation letter online. Letters of recommendation must be submitted in English or come with an official translation in English.
Writing Sample:
Your writing sample should represent your strongest work, whether published or more recent. You may submit fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, or a combination thereof. Prose should be double-spaced; poetry can be single-spaced. See below for page limits. Please do not send more than the specified number of pages.
Fiction or Creative Nonfiction
Twenty to thirty pages of either completed shorter work or an excerpt from longer work
Poetry
Ten pages
Multi-Genre
Ten to fifteen pages of prose & five pages of poetry
Email your writing sample as a Word or PDF attachment to: mfa@camden.rutgers.edu.
Please put your name and the genre of work in your email subject line.