Fresno State
MFA Program
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Fresno, CA
Application Deadline:
Sun, 03/01/2026
Application Fee:
$70
Affiliated Publications/Publishers:
Genre: Creative Nonfiction
California College of the Arts
MFA Program
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
San Francisco, CA
Application Deadline:
Wed, 01/15/2025
Application Fee:
$70
Antioch University
MFA Program
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation, Cross-Genre
Los Angeles, CA
Application Deadline:
Rolling Admissions
Application Fee:
$50 (Fee waivers available for those who attend an information session)
Affiliated Publications/Publishers:
Lunch Ticket, a student-run online literary journal; LitCit: a student-run literary podcast
University of Arizona
MFA Program
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Tucson, AZ
Application Deadline:
Mon, 12/15/2025
Application Fee:
$90
Affiliated Publications/Publishers:
University of Alaska, Fairbanks
MFA Program
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Fairbanks, AK
Application Deadline:
Wed, 01/15/2025
Application Fee:
$75
Affiliated Publications/Publishers:
Permafrost, which administers an annual book prize.
Six-Word Memoir
As the old story goes, Ernest Hemingway was once asked to write a six-word story about himself. This is how he responded: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” Write a six-word memoir about yourself. For inspiration, check out Smith Magazine's Six-Word Memoir Project.
Green-Haired Gumshoes or Hidebound Hacks? Creative Nonfiction vs. Journalism
My confusion came from a curious warning. Awash in a sea of writers and would-be writers in a drab-walled meeting room at the Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference a few years ago in Vancouver, B.C., I was listening to author Dinty W. Moore extol the virtues of creative nonfiction writing when suddenly he straightened his stout body and leaned across the podium. "Look out," he cautioned, his tone dire, "the journalists are coming!"
The Written Image: The Beats
Trying to capitalize on the popularity of graphic novels, Hill and Wang, an imprint of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, has begun publishing graphic nonfiction titles. Their latest release, The Beats: A Graphic History, covers all the major writers of the generation.
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The World Over: A Profile of Rolf Potts
Getting there may be half the fun, but for Rolf Potts, author of Marco Polo Didn’t Go There, the art of traveling—and travel writing—raises more important questions than how to go from point A to point B.
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The New Creative Nonfiction Writers
Citizen journalists, often blogging in real time, have forced an expansion of creative nonfiction by influencing public opinion on important issues such as the presidential campaign.
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