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.Master of Professional Writing (MPW) The University of Southern California's MPW program ended in May 2016,Students react to untimely closing of MPW ProgramUSC's "Business Decision" to Ax Its Master of Professional Writing Program Leaves Unanswered Questions USC's MPW program to close in 2016 - but students want to save it at which point it moved to the Vermont College of Fine Arts under the new name the School of Writing and Publishing.
Notable alumni of the USC program Millicent Borges Accardi, poet and recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, author of four poetry books 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 Frederick Johnson, Emmy- and WGA Award-winning writer of daytime television serials Charlotte Laws, author and animal rights advocate EM Lewis, playwright Sandra Tsing Loh, radio commentator and author Gina Nahai, author of Cry of the Peacock Greg Rucka, writer of novels and comic books Ann Seaman, author of biographies of Jimmy Swaggart and Madalyn Murray O'Hair Charles Harper Webb, poet, Guggenheim Fellow Lee Wochner, playwright
Notable faculty of the USC program
Shelley Berman, humor writing Nan Cohen, poetry Syd Field, screenwriting Janet Fitch, fiction Noel Riley Fitch, non-fiction Donald Freed, playwriting Amy Gerstler, poetry Dana Goodyear, non-fiction Janet Irvin, fiction Marty Isenberg, animation Irvin Kershner, cinema/TV Jerome Lawrence, playwriting Dinah Lenney, non-fiction Gerald Locklin, poetry, fiction Larry the Cable Guy, cinema/TV MG Lord, non-fiction Shelly Lowenkopf, fiction, publishing David Scott Milton, playwriting Gina Nahai, fiction Gabrielle Pina, fiction Robert Pirosh, cinema/TV Beata Pozniak, drama/film/TV Michael Price, animation writing James Ragan, poetry and program director for 25 years John Rechy, fiction Aram Saroyan, poetry, fiction Sy Gomberg, screenwriter Hubert Selby Jr., fiction Melville Shavelson, cinema/TV Gay Talese, non-fiction Shirley Thomas, technical writing Kenneth Turan, film Lee Wochner, playwriting Richard Yates, fiction
References
External links Chatham University program Vermont College of Fine Arts program