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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

  • 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, Stephanie Grant, Patricia Park
    Nonfiction: Rachel Louise Snyder

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 15
    Deadline: 2/15/25

  • 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: 3/1/25

  • 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: 3/1/25

  • 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, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, Adam Gellings, Tess Taylor, Vanessa Angélica Villareal
    Fiction: Kirstin Chen, Edan Lepucki, Sarah Monette, Nayomi Munaweera, Vi Khi Nao, Naomi J. Williams, Kyle Winkler
    Nonfiction: Cass Donish, Kate Hopper, Lauren Markham, Thomas Mira y Lopez, Lisa Nikolidakis, Terese Mailhot

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
    Residency: Low
    Incoming Class Size: 15
    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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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: 1/9/25

  • 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: 6/1/25

  • 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

  • Brooklyn College

    MFA Program
    Brooklyn, NY
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Ben Lerner, Mónica de la Torre
    Fiction: Joshua Henkin
    Playwriting: Dennis A. Allen II, Elana Greenfield

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 30
    Deadline: 1/15/26

  • Brown University

    MFA Program
    Providence, RI
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Kwame Dawes, Sawako Nakayasu, Matthew Shenoda, Eleni Sikelianos, Jackie Wang
    Fiction: Colin Channer, Laird Hunt, Karan Mahajan, Jacinda Townsend
    Cross Disciplinary & Digital Language Arts: John Cayley, Thalia Field, Sawako Nakayasu

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 10
    Deadline: 12/15/25

  • Butler University

    MFA Program
    Indianapolis, IN
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Chris Forhan, Alessandra Lynch, Bryce Berkowitz
    Fiction: Michael Dahlie, Bryan Furuness
    Nonfiction: Andrew Levy, Natalie Lima

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: Average 12
    Deadline: 5/30/25

  • California College of the Arts

    MFA Program
    San Francisco, CA
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Faith Adiele, Tom Barbash, Dodie Bellamy, Rita Bullwinkel, Jasmin Darznik, Joseph Lease, Trisha Ya-Wen Low, Denise Newman, Aimee Phan, Leslie Carol Roberts

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 12
    Deadline: 1/15/25

  • California Institute of Integral Studies

    MFA Program
    San Francisco, CA
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Cindy Shearer (Dept. Chair), Carolyn Cooke
    Associated Faculty: Alex Burger, George Reyes, Karla Diaz, Jacqueline Allen Trimble, as well as guest artists each year

    Genre: Cross-Genre
    Residency: Online
    Incoming Class Size: 8-10
    Deadline: 2/15/26

  • California Institute of the Arts

    MFA Program
    Santa Clarita, CA
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Gabrielle Civil, Brian Evenson, Carribean Fragoza, Muriel Leung, Anthony McCann, Chris Santiago, Janet Sarbanes, Matias Viegener

    Genre: Not Genre-Specific
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 14–20
    Deadline: 1/5/26

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