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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
    Garden City, NY
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Jan-Henry Gray
    Fiction: Katherine Hill, Igor Webb
    Nonfiction: Katherine Hill, Igor Webb

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 6–12
    Deadline: 1/15/22

  • Albertus Magnus College

    MFA Program
    New Haven, CT
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Charles Rafferty, Paul Robichaud
    Fiction: Sarah Harris Wallman
    Nonfiction: Eric Schoeck

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

  • 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: 2/15/22

  • Antioch University

    MFA Program
    Los Angeles, CA
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Victoria Chang
    Prose: Lisa Locascio

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-Genre
    Residency: Low
    Incoming Class Size: 20 per cohort (2 cohorts per year)
    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: 3/1/22

  • 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: 3/1/22

  • Arizona State University

    MFA Program
    Tempe, AZ
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Sally Ball, Natalie Diaz, Alberto Álvaro Ríos, Solmaz Sharif, Safiya Sinclair
    Fiction: Matt Bell, Jenny Irish, Tara Ison, Mitchell Jackson, T. M. McNally

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 8-10
    Deadline: 1/1/22

  • Ashland University

    MFA Program
    Ashland, OH
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Aria Aber, Dexter Booth, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, Kate Gale, Tess Taylor

    Fiction: Kirstin Chen, Brian Conn, Edan Lepucki, Sarah Monette, Nayomi Munaweera, Naomi J. Williams

    Nonfiction: Christopher Feliciano Arnold, Garrard Conley, Kate Hopper, Lauren Markham, Angela Morales, Katherine Standefer, Kelly Sundberg

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

  • Augsburg University

    MFA Program
    Minneapolis, MN
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Jim Cihlar, Heid E. Erdrich, Cary Waterman
    Fiction: Stephan Eirik Clark, Lindsay Starck
    Nonfiction: Anika Fajardo, Kathryn Savage
    Playwriting: Alice Cohen, Carson Kreitzer, Sarah Myers
    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:

    Poetry: Anselm Berrigan, Anna Moschovakis, Hoa Nguyen, Christopher Rey Pérez, Cedar Sigo, Julian Talamantez Brolaski, Roberto Tejada, Mónica de la Torre, Simone White
    Fiction: Anna Moschovakis, Cedar Sigo
    Criticism: David Levi Strauss, Mónica de la Torre

    Note: Faculty has not yet been confirmed for Summer 2022.

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
    Residency: Low
    Incoming Class Size: 29
    Deadline: 1/10/22

  • Bay Path University

    MFA Program
    Longmeadow, MA
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Mel Allen, Leanna James Blackwell, Sari Botton, Adam Braver, Melanie Brooks, Jennifer DeLeon, Áine Greaney, Shahnaz Habib, Ann Hood, Allan Hunter, Susan Ito, Karol Jackowski, Yi Shun Lai, Julia Lythcott-Haims, Anna Mantzaris, Dinty W. Moore, Meredith O’Brien, Lisa Romeo, Tom Shea, Suzanne Strempek Shea, Kate Whouley

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

  • Bennington College

    MFA Program
    Bennington, VT
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: April Bernard, Brian Blanchfield, Jennifer Chang, Carmen Giménez Smith, Craig Morgan Teicher, Mark Wunderlich
    Fiction: Douglas Bauer, Monica Ferrell, David Gates, Manuel Gonzales, Amy Hempel, Alice Mattison, Jill McCorkle, Deirdre McNamer, Stuart Nadler, Derek Palacio, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Katy Simpson Smith
    Nonfiction: Benjamin Anastas, Jenny Boully, Susan Cheever, Chelsea Hodson, Dinah Lenney, Marie Mutsuki Mockett, Clifford Thompson, Peter Trachtenberg

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-Genre
    Residency: Low
    Incoming Class Size: 20-25 every semester
    Deadline: 9/1/21

  • Bluegrass Writers Studio at Eastern Kentucky University

    MFA Program
    Richmond, KY
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Julie Hensley, Young Smith
    Fiction: Julie Hensley, Nancy Jensen, Robert D. Johnson, Carter Sickels
    Nonfiction: Nancy Jensen, Robert D. Johnson, Carter Sickels

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

  • Boise State University

    MFA Program
    Boise, ID
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Martin Corless-Smith (Director), Emily Pittinos, Taryn Schwilling, Kerri Webster
    Fiction: Nicole Cullen, Mary Pauline Lowry, Ridley Pearson, Brady Udall, Mitch Wieland

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 5
    Deadline: 1/15/22

  • Boston University

    MFA Program
    Boston, MA
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Karl Kirchwey, Gail Mazur, Robert Pinsky, Nicole Sealey
    Fiction: Leslie Epstein, Ha Jin, Sigrid Nunez

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 18
    Deadline: 2/1/22

  • Boston University—MFA in Literary Translation

    MFA Program
    Boston, MA
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Odile Cazenave, Margaret Litvin, Petrus Liu, Christopher Maurer, Roberta Micaleff, Robert Pinsky (advising), Stephen Scully, Sassan Tabatabai, J. Keith Vincent, William Waters, Anna Zielinska-Elliott

    Genre: Translation
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 5
    Deadline: 2/15/22

  • Bowling Green State University

    MFA Program
    Bowling Green, OH
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Abigail Cloud, Sharona Muir, Dan Rzicznek, Larissa Szporluk
    Fiction: Jackson Bliss, Lawrence Coates

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 10
    Deadline: 1/15/22

  • Brigham Young University

    MFA Program
    Provo, UT
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Kimberly Johnson, Lance Larsen, Michael Lavers, John Talbot
    Fiction: John Bennion, Chris Crowe, Spencer Hyde, Stephen Tuttle
    Nonfiction: Joey Franklin, Patrick Madden

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 10
    Deadline: 1/15/22

  • Brooklyn College

    MFA Program
    Brooklyn, NY
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Julie Agoos, Ben Lerner
    Fiction: Joshua Henkin, Madeleine Thien
    Playwriting: Kristina Satter, Anne Washburn

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 30
    Deadline: 1/15/22

  • Brown University

    MFA Program
    Providence, RI
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Sawako Nakayasu, Eleni Sikelianos, Cole Swensen
    Fiction: Colin Channer, Laird Hunt, Karan Mahajan, Carole Maso
    Cross Disciplinary & Digital Language Arts: John Cayley, Thalia Field

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 12–13
    Deadline: 12/15/21

  • Butler University

    MFA Program
    Indianapolis, IN
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Chris Forhan, Alessandra Lynch
    Fiction: Dan Barden, Michael Dahlie
    Nonfiction: Hilene Flanzbaum, Andrew Levy

    2021-2022 Booth Tarkington Writer-in-Residence: Hanif Abdurraqib.

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 15
    Deadline: 3/1/22

  • California College of the Arts

    MFA Program
    San Francisco, CA
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Aimee Phan, Leslie Carol Roberts, Tom Barbash, Joseph Lease, Rita Bullwinkel, Faith Adiele, Jasmin Darznik, Denise Newman, Judith Serin, Noah Stern

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 15
    Deadline: 1/10/22

  • California Institute of Integral Studies

    MFA Program
    San Francisco, CA
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Carolyn Cooke and Cindy Shearer (Dept. Chair)

    Associated Faculty: Kris Brandenburger, Alex Burger, Judy Grahn, Pireeni Sundaralingam, as well as guest artists each year

    Genre: Cross-Genre
    Residency: Low
    Incoming Class Size: 10-12 each semester
    Deadline: Rolling Admissions

  • California Institute of the Arts

    MFA Program
    Santa Clarita, CA
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Tisa Bryant, Gabrielle Civil, Brian Evenson, Michael Leong, Anthony McCann, Janet Sarbanes, Matias Viegener, Jon Wagner

    Genre: Not Genre-Specific
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 15–20
    Deadline: 1/4/22

  • California State University, Long Beach

    MFA Program
    Long Beach, CA
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: David Hernandez, Bill Mohr, Patty Seyburn, Charles Webb
    Fiction: Stephen Cooper, Lisa Glatt, Suzanne Greenberg, Rafael Zepeda

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 12
    Deadline: 2/15/22

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