MFA Program
See writers who attended this programPoetry: Elisa Gabbert, Laura Kolbe, Nathan McClain, Alicia Mountain
Fiction: David Gates, Amy Hempel, Lee Clay Johnson, Andrew Martin, Jill McCorkle
Nonfiction: Elisa Gabbert, Lee Clay Johnson
Past master lecturers from the former full residency program have included Kali Fajardo Anstine, Amy Hempel, Major Jackson, Mitchell S. Jackson, Mary Gaitskill, Carmen Maria Machado, Nathan McClain, Francine Prose, Jim Shepard, Ocean Vuong, and many more.
The program offers partial funding. Each applicant is considered for a Writer’s Foundry Tuition Scholarship.
The Master Lecture Series brings visiting writers to the program for evenings of lecture and literary conversation. St. Joseph’s University also hosts the Brooklyn Voices series of lectures, forums, performances, and public discussions.
The priority deadline is March 1. Applications submitted after March 1 will be reviewed on a rolling basis.