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University of Montana creative writing program at tipping point as budget cuts loom

UM touts its creative writing program as the second oldest in the U.S., and students are drawn to Missoula for its muscular tradition.

The minutes flew by as seven students critiqued personal essays in author and professor Judy Blunt’s creative writing class at the University of Montana.

Blunt led the nonfiction workshop in the Hugo Room of the Liberal Arts Building, named after a poet and towering figure of Western literature, Richard Hugo, former head of the creative writing program at UM.

The students read selected paragraphs aloud, and the professor drew comments out of them and augmented their feedback.

That same week, one of the students’ predecessors, 1996 MFA graduate Andrew Sean Greer, won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his comic novel, "Less."

KEILA SZPALLER [email protected]

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