MFA Program
See writers who attended this programPoetry: Kaveh Akbar, Eloisa Amezcua, Jos Charles, Anthony Cody, Rigoberto González, Ilya Kaminsky, Paige Lewis, Layli Long Soldier, Angel Nafis, Diana Khoi Nguyen, Erika L. Sánchez, Chet'la Sebree, Danez Smith, R. A. Villanueva, Phillip B. Williams
Fiction: Claire Beams, Maurice Carlos Ruffin, Jaquira Diaz, Rigoberto González, Mira Jacob, Aviya Kushner, Sabrina Orah Mark, Julia Phillips, Anjali Sachdeva, Erika L. Sánchez
Nonfiction: Claire Beams, Maurice Carlos Ruffin, Jaquira Diaz, Rigoberto González, Mira Jacob, Aviya Kushner, Sabrina Orah Mark, Julia Phillips, Anjali Sachdeva, Erika L. Sánchez, Chet'la Sebree
The program offers partial funding.
Students attend two ten-day residencies each year in June and December/January. The June residency is held on the Randolph College campus in Lynchburg, Virginia; the December/January residency is held at an off-campus location in central Virginia.
The application deadline is March 1 for the June residency and September 1 for the December/January residency.