Emerson College Creative Writing MFA

MFA Program

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Program Established: 
1981
Location: 
Boston, MA
Genre: 
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Residency: 
Full
Duration: 
2-3 Years
Incoming Class Size: 
45
Application Deadline: 
February 1, 2026
Application Fee: 
$65
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Graduate Admission
Core Faculty Includes: 

Poetry: Christine Casson, Mary Kovaleski-Byrnes, Porsha Olayiwola, Daniel Tobin
Fiction: Julia Glass, Paul Harding, Steve Himmer, Kim McLarin, Frederick Reiken, Mako Yoshikawa
Nonfiction: Jabari Asim, Alden Jones, Jerald Walker

Funding/Employment Opportunities: 

The program offers partial tuition scholarships. Some student can receive half or full tuition fellowships. All students’ funding is automatically renewed as long as they fulfill requirements for being a student in good standing. Students can apply to the program’s Transformational Leaders Fellowship which includes a stipend, scholarship, leadership training, and a mentorship program.

Affiliated Publications/Publishers: 
Other Features: 

The program hosts a reading series, an alumni and faculty reading series, a publishing series, and a scholar research series. Students also have the opportunity to take publishing courses and work with local high school students through the emersonWRITES program.

The priority deadline is February 1. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis until April 1.

Graduates: 

Laura Van Den Berg, Elisa Gabbert, Matt Rasmussen, Matthew Salesses, Kenan Orhan, Kirstin Chen, Ciera Burch, Jay Baron Nicorvo, Kathleen Rooney, Urban Waite, Matthew Goodman, Asako Serizawa, Tatiana Johnson-Boria, Simon Jimenez

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