Katie Peterson

Additional Highlights

Maurice Prize in Fiction: This $5000 prize is awarded annually for a fiction manuscript written by a UCD Creative Writing MA Program Alumni.

Elliot Gilbert Prize: This contest for the best poem and best short story is open to current UCD creative writing graduate students.

Our Alumni

Our graduates have gone on to top MFA programs, PhD programs in Creative Writing and in Literature; to Fulbright scholarships, Stegner and Michener fellowships; to teach at community colleges and secondary schools; to careers in editing, screenwriting, and journalism; and they're certainly publishing their work.

Location: Davis is a small, safe, friendly city with a thriving downtown that borders campus. It's a great place to hole up and write: cute shops, bookstores, coffeehouses, a wide range of restaurants, a restored Deco movie theater. Davis culture is dominated by the twice-weekly farmers' market and omnipresent bicycles, and trails for biking and hiking are abundant in and around the city. You can also take Amtrak (there's an historic station right downtown) to get to Berkeley and San Francisco. In under two hours you can drive to Lake Tahoe, Sonoma and Napa (wine country), the breathtaking California coast. Sacramento and its small, easily accessible airport are only 20 minutes from Davis.