Manhattanville College

MFA Program

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Program Established: 
2012
Location: 
Purchase, NY
Genre: 
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-Genre
Residency: 
Full
Duration: 
2 Years
Incoming Class Size: 
8–10
Application Deadline: 
Rolling Admissions
Application Fee: 
$75 (fee waivers are available)
Contact E-mail: 
Contact Name: 
Iain Haley Pollock
Core Faculty Includes: 

Poetry: Mark Nowak, Iain Haley Pollock
Fiction: Jeff Bens
Nonfiction: Lorraine Fontanes
Dramatic Writing: Sharbari Ahmed

Funding/Employment Opportunities: 

The program offers partial funding. The program offers fully-funded teaching fellowships, partial funding through scholarships, Writing Center fellowships, editorial positions, and other positions within the college. Merit scholarships are available.

Affiliated Publications/Publishers: 

Inkwell Journal

Other Features: 

The program also offers degrees in Graphic Narrative and Television/Screenwriting. Cross-genre theses are accepted.

In terms of curriculum and timing, the program has also created flexible pathways through the program. Students in the program do not declare a genre concentration but have the leeway to focus on a single genre or to work across several genres. While many students complete the program in two years, there is flexibility for working adults, especially teachers, who need to balance active careers with their study of the craft of writing and storytelling.

The program offers on-campus graduate housing, and hosts the annual Summer Writers’ Week, Fall Writers’ Weekend, and the “Meet the Writers” reading series, which brings established and emerging writers to campus. Students also have the opportunity to edit the literary journal Inkwell, which receives creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry submissions from writers across the country.

The Master’s in Writing program was established in 1997; the MFA program was established in 2012.

Graduates: 

James King, Barbara Perez Marquez, Janelle M. Williams