The Center for Writers is the creative writing program at The University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, 90 miles north of New Orleans. There are maybe three dozen students working toward M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in fiction and poetry with Frederick Barthelme, Mary Robison, Angela Ball, Steven Barthelme, David Berry, Kim Herzinger, and visitors such as Rick Moody, Amy Hempel, Lucie Brock-Broido, Dana Gioia, Padgett Powell, Michael Waters, Mary Gaitskill, Julia Slavin, C. Michael Curtis, and others.

Address
University of Southern Mississippi
Box 5144 USM
Hattiesburg, Mississippi 39406
Phone: 601-266-4321