MFA Program
See writers who attended this programPoetry: Jennifer Chang, Michael Dumanis, Carmen Giménez, Dana Levin, Robert Wood Lynn, Randall Mann, Bianca Stone, Craig Morgan Teicher, Devon Walker-Figueroa, Mark WunderlichFiction: 'Pemi Aguda, Peter Cameron, Edward Carey, Jai Chakrabarti, Stacey D’Erasmo, Monica Ferrell, Thomas Grattan, Samantha Hunt, Luis Jaramillo, Rebecca Makkai, Stuart Nadler, Emily Nemens, Moriel Rothman-Zecher, Carter Sickels, Katy Simpson Smith, Taymour Soomro, Claire Vaye Watkins, De'Shawn Charles Winslow
Nonfiction: Eula Biss, Rachel Cohen, Garrard Conley, Paul Lisicky, Sabrina Orah Mark, Lance Richardson, Shawna Kay Rodenberg, Hugh Ryan, Joshua Wheeler
The program offers tuition assistance through partial scholarships. Students may also apply for Federal Student Aid.
The Writing Seminars offers one term of tuition remission thanks to a full-immersion teaching fellowship open to selected MFA students.
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 with faculty and visiting writers, as well as lectures, master classes, craft sessions, and professional development seminars.
The program also offers a dual-genre track; application fee is $100. In the dual-genre track, poetry, fiction, and nonfiction are major and minor options, and literary translation is a minor option.
The application deadline is September 1 for the Winter term starting with the January residency and March 1 for the Summer term beginning with the June residency. View their complete guidelines and prospective student FAQs for more information, and apply here.