MFA Programs Database

Our MFA database includes essential information about low- and full-residency graduate creative writing programs in the United States and other English-speaking countries to help you decide where to apply.

  • Adelphi University

    MFA Program
    Residencies held in New York City, campus in Garden City, NY
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Jan-Henry Gray, Emily Lee Luan
    Prose: Katherine Hill, René Steinke, Igor Webb

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-Genre
    Residency: Low
    Incoming Class Size: 6–12
    Deadline: Rolling Admissions

  • Alaska Pacific University

    MFA Program
    Anchorage, AK
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Andrea Hackbarth
    Fiction: Jamey Bradbury
    Creative Nonfiction: Corinna Cook, John Messick

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
    Residency: Low
    Incoming Class Size: 4-6
    Deadline: 4/1/26

  • Albertus Magnus College

    MFA Program
    New Haven, CT
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Paul Robichaud
    Fiction: Sarah Harris Wallman
    Nonfiction: Eric Schoeck

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
    Residency: Online
    Incoming Class Size: 5-10
    Deadline: Rolling Admissions

  • Alma College

    MFA Program
    Alma, MI
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Leslie Contreras Schwartz, Jim Daniels, Benjamin Garcia
    Fiction: Karen E. Bender, Shonda Buchanan, Dhonielle Clayton, S. Kirk Walsh
    Creative Nonfiction: Anna Clark, Matthew Gavin Frank, Donald Quist, Robert Vivian

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
    Residency: Low
    Incoming Class Size: 8-15
    Deadline: 11/30/25

  • American University

    MFA Program
    Washington, DC
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Kyle Dargan, David Keplinger
    Fiction: Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Patricia Park
    Nonfiction: Andrew Bertaina, Rachel Louise Snyder

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 15
    Deadline: 2/1/26

  • Antioch University

    MFA Program
    Los Angeles, CA
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Cathy Linh Che
    Prose: Lisa Locascio Nighthawk
    Fiction: Alistair McCartney
    Dramatic Writing: Colette Freedman

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation, Cross-Genre
    Residency: Low
    Incoming Class Size: 22
    Deadline: Rolling Admissions

  • Arcadia University

    MFA Program, MA Program
    Glenside, PA
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Genevieve Betts, Michelle Reale
    Fiction: Stephanie Feldman, Joshua Isard, Tracey Levine, Eric Smith
    Literature: Matthew Heitzman, Christopher Varlack, Elizabeth Vogel, Jo Ann Weiner

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 15
    Deadline: 3/1/26

  • Arcadia University

    MFA Program
    Glenside, PA
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Genevieve Betts, Michelle Reale
    Fiction: Stephanie Feldman, Joshua Isard, Tracey Levine, Eric Smith

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction
    Residency: Low
    Incoming Class Size: 15 per genre
    Deadline: 3/1/26

  • Arizona State University

    MFA Program
    Tempe, AZ
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Sally Ball, Natalie Diaz, Alberto Álvaro Ríos, Safiya Sinclair
    Fiction: Matt Bell, Jenny Irish, Tara Ison, Mitchell Jackson
    Creative Nonfiction: Sarah Viren

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 8-10
    Deadline: 1/1/26

  • Ashland University

    MFA Program
    Ashland, OH
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Dexter Booth, Chuck Carlise, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, Cass Donish, Adam Gellings, Glenn Shaheen, Tess Taylor
    Fiction: Edan Lepucki, Kelly Luce, Sarah Monette, Nayomi Munaweera, Vi Khi Nao, Naomi J. Williams, Kyle Winkler
    Nonfiction: Kate Hopper, Terese Mailhot, Lauren Markham, Thomas Mira y Lopez, Lisa Nikolidakis, Ryan Van Meter

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
    Residency: Low
    Incoming Class Size: 4-10
    Deadline: Rolling Admissions

  • Augsburg University

    MFA Program
    Minneapolis, MN
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Michael Kleber-Diggs, Lara Mimosa Montes
    Fiction: Stephan Eirik Clark, Lindsay Starck
    Nonfiction: Anika Fajardo 
    Playwriting: Gethsemane Herron, Carson Kreitzer
    Screenwriting: Stephan Eirik Clark, Andy Froemke

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-Genre
    Residency: Low
    Incoming Class Size: 15
    Deadline: Rolling Admissions

  • Ball State University

    MA Program
    Muncie, IN
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Katy Didden, Mark Neely
    Fiction: Cathy Day, Sean Lovelace
    Nonfiction: Jill Christman, Silas Hansen
    Screenwriting: Rani Deighe Crowe, Matt Mullins

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 5-7
    Deadline: 11/1/25

  • Bard College

    MFA Program
    Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Jess Arndt, Writing Co-Chair; Shiv Kotecha, Writing Co-Chair; Mirene Arsanios, CAConrad, Trisha Low, Christoper Perez, Mónica de la Torre, Simone White

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
    Residency: Low
    Incoming Class Size: 31
    Deadline: 1/7/26

  • Bath Spa University

    PhD Program
    Bath, England
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Lucy English, Tim Liardet, John Strachan, Samantha Walton, Gerard Woodward
    Fiction: Gavin James Bower, Celia Brayfield, Alexia Casale, Anne-Marie Crowhurst, Lucy English, Nathan Filer, Aminatta Forna, Philip Hensher, Steve Hollyman, Emma Hooper, Claire Kendal, Natasha Pulley, Kate Pullinger, Gerard Woodward
    Nonfiction: Celia Brayfield, Lily Dunn, Richard Kerridge
    Scriptwriting: Robin Mukherjee

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: Varies
    Deadline: Rolling Admissions

  • Bath Spa University

    MA Program
    Bath, England
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Lucy English, Tim Liardet, Declan Ryan, Gerard Woodward
    Fiction: Jane Borodale, Gavin James Bower, Celia Brayfield, Anna-Marie Crowhurst, Nathan Filer, Aminatta Forna, Melanie Golding, Samantha Harvey, Philip Hensher, Claire Kendal, Natasha Pulley, Kate Pullinger, Gerard Woodward
    Nonfiction: Lily Dunn, Samantha Harvey, Richard Kerridge

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 40
    Deadline: Rolling Admissions

  • Bay Path University

    MFA Program
    Longmeadow, MA
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Nancy Agabian, Mel Allen, Jennifer Baker, Melanie Brooks, María Luisa Arroyo Cruzado, Shahnaz Habib, Karol Jackowski, Yi Shun Lai, Anna Mantzaris, Meredith O’Brien, Heidi Fettig Parton, Mick Powell, Kate Whouley

    Genre: Creative Nonfiction
    Residency: Online, Other
    Incoming Class Size: 20
    Deadline: Rolling Admissions

  • Bennington Writing Seminars at Bennington College

    MFA Program
    Bennington, VT
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Jennifer Chang, Michael Dumanis, Randall Mann, Craig Morgan Teicher, Mark Wunderlich
    Fiction: Peter Cameron, Jai Chakrabarti, Stacey D’Erasmo, Monica Ferrell, Rebecca Makkai, Stuart Nadler, Téa Obreht, Moriel Rothman-Zecher, Katy Simpson Smith, Taymour Soomro
    Nonfiction: Garrard Conley, Sabrina Orah Mark, Spencer Reece, Lance Richardson, Shawna Kay Rodenberg, Hugh Ryan, Greg Wrenn

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-Genre
    Residency: Low
    Incoming Class Size: 30-35 each term
    Deadline: 9/1/25

  • Binghamton University

    MA Program
    Binghamton, NY
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Tina Chang, Joseph Weil
    Fiction: Amir Ahmdi Arian, Thomas Glave, Claire Luchette, Liz Rosenberg, Jaimee Wriston-Colbert, Alexi Zentner
    Nonfiction: Amir Ahmdi Arian, Leslie L. Heywood

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 7-15
    Deadline: 1/27/26

  • Binghamton University

    PhD Program
    Binghamton, NY
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Tina Chang, Joseph Weil
    Fiction: Amir Ahmdi Arian, Thomas Glave, Claire Luchette, Liz Rosenberg, Jaimee Wriston-Colbert, Alexi Zentner
    Nonfiction: Amir Ahmdi Arian, Leslie L. Heywood

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 2-5
    Deadline: 1/27/26

  • Bluegrass Writers Studio at Eastern Kentucky University

    MFA Program
    Richmond, KY
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Creative Nonfiction: Emma Hudelson
    Fiction: Julie Hensley, R Dean Johnson (director)
    Playwriting: Matthew Johnson
    Poetry: Young Smith
    Popular Fiction: Ashley Blooms, Gwenda Bond, Bill Mullen

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
    Residency: Low
    Incoming Class Size: 8-12
    Deadline: Rolling Admissions

  • Boise State University

    MFA Program
    Boise, ID
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Martin Corless-Smith (Director), Sara Nicholson, Taryn (Schwilling) Birdsall
    Fiction: Mitch Wieland, Anna Caritj
    Creative Nonfiction and Translation: Chris Violet Eaton, Clyde Moneyhun

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 4-8
    Deadline: 1/15/26

  • Boston University

    MFA Program
    Boston, MA
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Andrea Cohen, Karl Kirchwey, Sandra Lim
    Fiction: Leslie Epstein, Allegra Goodman, Ha Jin

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 18
    Deadline: 1/9/26

  • Boston University—MFA in Literary Translation

    MFA Program
    Boston, MA
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Odile Cazenave, Yuri Corrigan, Margaret Litvin, Christopher Maurer, Roberta Micaleff, Stephen Scully, Sassan Tabatabai, J. Keith Vincent, William Waters, Dennis Wuerthner, Catherine Yeh, Anna Zielinska-Elliott

    Genre: Translation
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 6
    Deadline: 6/1/26

  • Bowling Green State University

    MFA Program
    Bowling Green, OH
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Abigail Cloud, Amorak Huey, Sharona Muir, F. Dan Rzicznek, Larissa Szporluk, Jessica Zinz-Cheresnick
    Fiction: Joe Celizic, Lawrence Coates, Michael Schulz

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 10
    Deadline: 1/15/26

  • Brigham Young University

    MFA Program
    Provo, UT
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Kimberly Johnson, Lance Larsen, Michael Lavers, John Talbot
    Fiction: Allyson Condie, Ann Dee Ellis, Spencer Hyde, Stephen Tuttle
    Nonfiction: Joey Franklin, Patrick Madden

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 10
    Deadline: 1/15/26

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