MFA Program
MFA Program
Program Established:
1994
Location:
Bennington, VT
Genre:
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-Genre
Residency:
Low
Duration:
2 Years
Incoming Class Size:
20-25 every semester
Application Deadline:
March 1, 2018
Application Fee:
$70
Contact E-mail:
Contact Name:
Dawn Dayton
Core Faculty Includes:
Poetry: April Bernard, Major Jackson, Ed Ochester, Mark Wunderlich
Fiction: David Gates, Amy Hempel, Alice Mattison, Jill McCorkle, Deirdre McNamer, Askold Melnyczuk, Rachel Pastan, Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Nonfiction: Benjamin Anastas, Sven Birkerts, Susan Cheever, Dinah Lenney, Clifford Thompson, Peter Trachtenberg
Funding/Employment Opportunities:
The program offers partial funding through partial scholarships.
Other Features:
Students attend two ten-day residencies each year, in January and June, at the Bennington College campus in Bennington, Vermont. The program hosts a nightly reading series and a visiting writers series, as well as lectures, craft sessions, and publishing courses.
The application deadline is September 1 for the January residency and March 1 for the June residency.