MFA Program
See writers who attended this program
Poetry: Nickole Brown, Tiana Clark, Rebecca Gayle Howell, Vievee Francis, Eric Smith
Fiction: Ryan Chapman, Lee Conell, Sidik Fofana, Daniel Hornsby, Adam O’Fallon Price, Jamie Quatro, Justin Taylor
Nonfiction: Emily Adrian, Alice Bolin, Tracy O’Neill, Virginia Craighill, Jessica Goudeau, Meera Subramanian, John Jeremiah Sullivan
The Sewanee MFA is a unique hybrid MFA program that combines the community of in-person learning with the flexibility of low-residential guided study. Students attend a six-week residency in June and July at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, which the Princeton Review recently ranked as the “No. 1 most beautiful campus in the country.” At Sewanee, students take a workshop and a craft seminar, enjoy a robust reading and lecture series, and have full access to all university resources such as the library and gym.
Outside of the summer, students are mentored by faculty using a standard low-residential MFA guided study model, in which syllabi and assignments are developed individually based on student interest and creative work. It is a six-semester program culminating in a capstone thesis project. Residential and remote semesters are worth the same number of credits, which gives students maximum flexibility in designing a degree path that best fits their individual circumstances and creative goals.
The program offers tracks in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Merit scholarships are awarded in each genre, and all high school teachers receive a Blake & Bailey Family Fund Scholarship.
Rolling admissions open December 1, and the priority deadline is January 31.
Maggie Blake Bailey, Clay Byars, Dwight Gray, Kay Exley Gunkel, Lindsey Harding, Mina Manchester, Hannah Palmer, Kate Parrish, Amanda Shires, James Swansbrough, Cheryl Whitehead, Kathryn Williams, Leslie Baird, Robin Leigh Lear