MFA Program
See writers who attended this programPoetry: Kathleen Aguero, Jose Angel Araguz, F. Douglas Brown, Nicole Terez Dutton, Ethan Gilsdorf, Jennifer Jean, Iain Haley Pollock
Fiction: Venise Berry, Gina Chung, Steven Huff, Laura Williams McCaffrey, Jennifer Murvin, Sandra Scofield, David Yoo
Creative Nonfiction: Jose Angel Araguz, F. Douglas Brown, Ethan Gilsdorf, Amy Hoffman, Jennifer Murvin, David Yoo
Writing for Young People: Laura Williams McCaffrey, David Yoo
Comics & Graphic Narratives: Jennifer Murvin, Josh Neufeld
The program offers partial funding through fellowships and scholarships.
The Writers-Helping Writings Need-based Scholarships offer a $1,000 tuition discount per semester ($4,000 total). The Kurt Brown Fellowship for Diverse Voices offers $1,500 tuition discount applied to first semester; the Frances L. Toner Fellowship for Veterans offers a $1,500 tuition discount applied to first semester or free room and board on campus for student’s first year; the Monica Hand Fellowship for Nontraditional Students offers a $1,500 tuition discount applied to first semester for applicants forty years of age or older; the Dubus Fellowship for Native & Indigenous Writers offers a $1,500 tuition discount applied to first semester for Native and Indigenous applicants who also demonstrate financial need; the Billy Still Fellowship for Social Action & Writing offers a $1,500 tuition discount applied to first semester for applicants who enter our Social Action & Writing Track during the summer residency/fall semester; and Genre-Based Fellowships ($1,500 each tuition discount applied to first semester) include the Dennis Lehane Fellowship for Fiction, the Michael Steinberg Fellowship for Creative Nonfiction, the Doug and Betsy Sholl Fellowship for Poetry, and the Jacqueline Woodson Fellowship for a Young People’s Writer of African or Caribbean Descent.
The program includes concentrations in Writing for Young People and Comics & Graphic Narratives, as well as optional tracks in Pedagogy and Social Action & Writing.
For the winter residency, the application deadline to be considered for a fellowship is October 28 and the deadline for general applications is November 11. For the summer residency, the application deadline to be considered for a fellowship is April 28 and the deadline for general applications is May 12.
James Anderson, Richard Anderson, Maria Luisa Arroyo Cruzado, Ellen Austin-Li, Kerry Beckford, Sabra (Porter) Benedict, Eric Boermeester, Joanne Carota, Jane Cawthorne, Heather Christie, Eileen Cleary, Donna Coffey, Quintin Collins, Rebecca Connors, Samantha Cooke, Tanya Coovadia, Jenifer DeBellis, Suzanne Deshchidn, Michael Farrell, Angela Foster, Joseph Gannon, Garvan Giltinan, Estela González, Hannah Goodman, Karima Grant, William Hastings III, Christina Irace, Maryann Jacob, Mark Jednaszewski, Kimberly J. Kreines, Cathy Lentes, Melissa Lucken, Annette Marquis, Alison McLennan, Joyce McPherson, Melanie Meehan, Elizabeth Mercurio, Debbie Merion, Mike Miner, Kimberly Mitchell, Jim Naremore, Jina Ortiz, Ellen Parent, Faye Rapoport DesPres, Terese Schlachter, Andy Smart, Martin Smith, Jasen Sousa, Billy Still, Alison Stone, Kim Suhr, Daniel Summerhill, Teresa Sutton, Jessica Swearingen, John Theo, Jonathan Todd, Emily Van Duyne, Cynthia Zelman
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