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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: Judith Baumel, Jan-Henry Gray
    Fiction: Martha Cooley, Katherine Hill, Igor Webb
    Nonfiction: Katherine Hill, Igor Webb

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 6–12
    Deadline: 1/15/21

  • 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: 1/15/21

  • 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: Paul Elwork, Stephanie Feldman, Joshua Isard, Tracey Levine, Eric Smith
    Literature: Jim Casey, Matthew Heitzman, Elizabeth Vogel, Jo Ann Weiner

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 15
    Deadline: 3/1/21

  • Arcadia University

    MFA Program
    Glenside, PA
    Core Faculty Includes:

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

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction
    Residency: Low
    Incoming Class Size: 15 per genre
    Deadline: 3/1/21

  • Arizona State University

    MFA Program
    Tempe, AZ
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Sally Ball, Natalie Diaz, Norman Dubie, Alberto Álvaro Ríos, Solmaz Sharif
    Fiction: Matt Bell, Jenny Irish, Tara Ison, T. M. McNally

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 6-8
    Deadline: 1/1/21

  • Ashland University

    MFA Program
    Ashland, OH
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Dexter Booth, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, Kate Gale

    Fiction: Kirstin Chen, Brian Conn, Christian Kiefer, Sarah Monette, Nayomi Munaweera, Derek Palacio, Matthew Salesses, 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, Robert Fitterman, Carla Harryman, Ann Lauterbach, Anna Moschovakis, Cedar Sigo, Mónica de la Torre, Simone White, Matvei Yankelevich
    Fiction: Anna Moschovakis, Cedar Sigo
    Playwriting: Carla Harryman
    Criticism: Mónica de la Torre

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
    Residency: Low
    Incoming Class Size: 29
    Deadline: 1/7/21

  • Bay Path University

    MFA Program
    Longmeadow, MA
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Mel Allen, Leanna James Blackwell, Sari Botton, Adam Braver, Charles Coe, Jennifer DeLeon, Áine Greaney, Shahnaz Habib, Ann Hood, Allan Hunter, Susan Ito, Karol Jackowski, Yi Shun Lai, Anna Mantzaris, Dinty W. Moore, 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, Jenny Boully, Jennifer Chang, Carmen Giménez Smith, Mark Wunderlich
    Fiction: David Gates, Manuel Gonzales, Amy Hempel, Alice Mattison, Jill McCorkle, Deirdre McNamer, Stuart Nadler, Derek Palacio, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Claire Vaye Watkins
    Nonfiction: Benjamin Anastas, Douglas Bauer, Susan Cheever, Chelsea Hodson, Dinah Lenney, Gregory Pardlo, Clifford Thompson, Peter Trachtenberg

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

  • 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: 17
    Deadline: Rolling Admissions

  • Boise State University

    MFA Program
    Boise, ID
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Martin Corless-Smith (Co-Director), Kerri Webster
    Fiction: Emily Ruskovich, Brady Udall (Co-Director), Mitch Wieland

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 5
    Deadline: 1/15/21

  • 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: 2/1/21

  • Boston University—MFA in Literary Translation

    MFA Program
    Boston, MA
    Core Faculty Includes:

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

    Genre: Translation
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 6
    Deadline: 2/15/21

  • 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, Theresa Williams

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 10
    Deadline: 1/15/21

  • 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: 1/15/21

  • Brooklyn College

    MFA Program
    Brooklyn, NY
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Julie Agoos, Ben Lerner
    Fiction: Joshua Henkin, Madeleine Thien
    Playwriting: Erin Courtney, Mac Wellman

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 30
    Deadline: 1/15/21

  • 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: 12/15/20

  • Butler University

    MFA Program
    Indianapolis, IN
    Core Faculty Includes:

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

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 15
    Deadline: 4/2/21

  • California College of the Arts

    MFA Program
    San Francisco, CA
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Tonya Foster, Joseph Lease
    Fiction: Tom Barbash, Jasmin Darznik, Aimee Phan
    Nonfiction: Faith Adiele, Jasmin Darznik, Leslie Carol Roberts, Judith Serin

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 15
    Deadline: 1/10/21

  • 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: 1/4/21

  • Carlow University

    MFA Program
    Pittsburgh, PA
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Richard Blanco, Gerry LaFemina, Lee Ann Roripaugh, Judith Vollmer (U.S. faculty) Jean O'Brien, Enda Wyley (Ireland faculty)

    Fiction: Joseph Bathanti, Karin Lin-Greenberg, Geeta Kothari (U.S. faculty) Evelyn Conlon, Carlo Gebler (Ireland faculty)

    Nonfiction: Diane Glancy (U.S. faculty); Brian Leyden (Ireland faculty)

    Distinguished Writer in Residence: Jan Beatty

    Visiting Writers: Sandra Cisneros, Toi Derricotte, Anacelis Girmay, James Allen Hall, Sapphire, Kate Wisel; Kevin Barry, Colette Bryce, Sinéad Gleeson, Claire Keegan, Annemarie Ni Churreain, Mark O’Connell

     

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
    Residency: Low
    Incoming Class Size: 30 per year
    Deadline: Rolling Admissions

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