MFA Program
See writers who attended this programPoetry: Brian Clements, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Kateri Kosek, Lisa Siedlarz.
Fiction: Jason Mott, Jane Cleland, Oscar De Los Santos, Gwen Jones, Sarah Darer Littman, David Rich, John Roche, Lindy Ryan, Stephanie Gallagher, Karen Romano Young
Nonfiction: Melanie Brooks, Anthony D’Aries, Erik Ofgang, Sonja Mongar
The program offers graduate assistantships and scholarships, as well as graduate teaching assistantships.
Students choose one creative genre and one practical field, such as public relations and marketing, literary journalism, grant writing, or technical writing. Creative genres include playwriting, screenwriting, and writing for children and young adults, in addition to poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction.
Students attend two weeklong residencies each year, in January at the Western Connecticut State University campus in Danbury, Connecticut and August at the Highlights Retreat Center in Honesdale, PA. An optional residency is offered in Dublin, with students taking workshops in Oscar Wilde’s historic childhood home and attending the Bram Stoker Festival.
The funding application deadline is March 1 for the fall semester and October 1 for the spring semester.
Jane Cleland, Beth Turley, John Roche, Lisa Siedlarz, Brian Thiem, Beth Turley