Virginia Tech

MFA Program

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Program Established:

2005

Location:

Blacksburg, VA

Genre:

Poetry, Fiction

Residency:

Full

Duration:

3 Years

Incoming Class Size:

7-9

Application Deadline:

January 8, 2023

Application Fee:

$75

Website:

http://vtcwmfa.com

Contact E-mail:

mfacw@vt.edu

Contact Name:

Matthew Vollmer

Core Faculty Includes:

Poetry: Nikki Giovanni, Janine Joseph, Jeffrey Mann, Khadijah Queen, Carmen Giménez Smith, Soham Patel, Sophia Terazawa
Fiction: Edward Falco, Evan Lavender-Smith, Lucinda Roy, Matthew Vollmer

Funding/Employment Opportunities:

The program offers full funding through three-year teaching and graduate assistantships. All students have the opportunity to teach composition and creative writing. Each assistantship includes a full tuition waiver, health insurance, and annual stipend of more than $20,000.

Affiliated Publications/Publishers:

minnesota review, New River

Other Features:

The program hosts a visiting writers series, an MFA student reading series, and encourages students to engage in cross-genre work with courses in playwriting, creative nonfiction, new media creative writing, and literary editing.

Visiting writers for 2021-22 include Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, Tommye Blount, Leah Hampton, Susan Nguyen, and Jesmyn Ward.

More information can be found on the program’s Tumblr page.

Graduates:

Anuradha Bhowmik, Weston Cutter, Jeremy Griffin, Christopher Linforth, Carrie Meadows, Soraya Palmer, Xandria Phillips, KMA Sullivan, Julia Tillinghast, Robert Walker, Lamar Wilson