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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.

  • University of Nebraska, Omaha

    MFA Program
    Omaha, NE
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Sandra Beasley, Graham Foust, Art Homer, Jim Peterson, Elizabeth Powell, Lee Ann Roripaugh, William Trowbridge, Miles Waggener, Teri Youmans
    Fiction and Creative Nonfiction: Sandra Beasley, Teresa Carmody, Rachel Carter, Kevin Clouther, John Copenhaver, Charlene Donaghy, Art Homer, Patricia Lear, Kristen-Paige Madonia, Jessica Hendry Nelson, Jim Peterson, Lee Ann Roripaugh, Catherine Texier, Teri Youmans
    Playwriting and Screenwriting: Charlene Donaghy, Michael Kinghorn, Christina Ham, Michael Oatman, Samuel Brett Williams

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
    Residency: Low
    Incoming Class Size: 6-18 per semester
    Deadline: 11/1/25

  • University of Nevada, Las Vegas

    PhD Program
    Las Vegas, NV
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Wendy Chen, Claudia Keelan
    Fiction: Maile Chapman, Douglas Unger
    Literary Nonfiction: Roberto Lovato, David J. Morris

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 2
    Deadline: 1/15/25

  • University of Nevada, Las Vegas

    MFA Program
    Las Vegas, NV
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Wendy Chen, Claudia Keelan
    Fiction: Maile Chapman, Douglas Unger
    Literary Nonfiction: Roberto Lovato, David J. Morris

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 14
    Deadline: 1/15/25

  • University of Nevada, Reno

    MFA Program
    Reno, NV
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Steve Gehrke, Ann Keniston, Jared Stanley
    Fiction: Christopher Coake, Afsheen Farhadi

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 6-10
    Deadline: 12/15/25

  • University of Nevada, Reno at Tahoe

    MFA Program
    Incline Village, NV
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry:  Rick Campbell, Cathy Linh Che, Lee Herrick, Faylita Hicks, Laura McCullough, Gailmarie Pahmeier, Brynn Saito, Brian Turner

    Fiction: Brendan Basham, Alan Heathcock, Patrick Hicks, Peter Mountford, Claire Stanford, Lidia Yuknavitch

    Nonfiction: Gayle Brandeis, Gina Frangello, Suzanne Roberts, Leta McCollough Seletzky, Kristal Sital, Lidia Yuknavitch, Arianne Zwartjes

    WCYA: Traci Chee, Marie Myung-Ok Lee, Joe McGee, Isabel Quintero, Kathryn Reiss, Jess Rinker, Lilliam Rivera

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
    Residency: Low
    Incoming Class Size: 12
    Deadline: 10/1/25

  • University of New Hampshire

    MFA Program
    Durham, NH
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: David Blair
    Fiction: Jaed Coffin, Thomas Payne, Ann Joslin Williams
    Nonfiction: Jaed Coffin, Susan Hertz

    Visiting Writer for poetry is Diannely Antigua.

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 15-18
    Deadline: 1/15/26

  • University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

    MFA Program
    Albuquerque, NM
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Lisa D. Chavez, Diane Thiel
    Fiction: Andrew Bourelle, Daniel Mueller
    Nonfiction: Gregory Martin

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 6-8
    Deadline: 1/15/26

  • University of New Orleans

    MFA Program
    New Orleans, LA
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: John Gery, Carolyn Hembree
    Fiction: Fredrick Barton, Barb Johnson, Joanna Leake, M. O. Walsh
    Nonfiction: Anne Giselson, Juyanne James
    Playwriting: Justin Maxwell

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 20
    Deadline: 2/1/25

  • University of New Orleans

    MFA Program
    New Orleans, LA
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: John Gery, Carolyn Hembree
    Fiction: Frederick Barton, Barb Johnson, M. O. Walsh
    Nonfiction: Anne Giselson, Juyanne James

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
    Residency: Online
    Incoming Class Size: 10
    Deadline: 10/1/24

  • University of North Carolina, Greensboro

    MFA Program
    Greensboro, NC
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Terry Kennedy, Emilia Phillips
    Fiction: Xhenet Aliu, Holly Goddard Jones, Derek Palacio, Jessie Van Rheenan

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

  • University of North Carolina, Wilmington

    MFA Program
    Wilmington, NC
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Mark Cox, Melissa Crowe, Malena Mörling

    Fiction: Sarah Domet, Nina de Gramont, Rebecca Lee, Jason Mott

    Nonfiction: Sayantani Dasgupta, Clyde Edgerton, David Gessner, Rebecca Lee, Michael Ramos

    Editing/Publishing: Anna Lena Phillips Bell, Michelle Donahue, KaToya Ellis Fleming, Emily Louise Smith

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 22
    Deadline: 1/15/25

  • University of North Texas

    PhD Program
    Denton, TX
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Jehanne Dubrow, Tarfia Faizullah, Corey Marks,
    Fiction: Daniel Peña, Miroslav Penkov, John Tait
    Nonfiction: Kimberly Grey

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 7-10
    Deadline: 1/1/26

  • University of North Texas

    MA Program
    Denton, TX
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Jehanne Dubrow, Tarfia Faizullah, Corey Marks
    Fiction: Daniel Peña, Miroslav Penkov, John Tait
    Nonfiction: Kimberly Grey

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 7-10
    Deadline: 1/1/26

  • University of Notre Dame

    MFA Program
    Notre Dame, IN
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Johannes Göransson, Joyelle McSweeney
    Fiction: Dionne Irving Bremyer, Xavier Navarro Aquino, Roy Scranton, Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
    Nonfiction: Roy Scranton

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 8
    Deadline: 1/15/26

  • University of Oregon, Eugene

    MFA Program
    Eugene, OR
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Daniel Anderson, Geri Doran, Garrett Hongo
    Fiction: Jason Brown, Marjorie Celona, Mat Johnson, Karen Thompson Walker

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

  • University of Pittsburgh

    MFA Program
    Pittsburgh, PA
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Diana Khoi Nguyen, Joy Priest, Gary Jackson
    Fiction: Angie Cruz, William Lychack, Irina Reyn
    Nonfiction: Jeanne Marie Laskas, Michael Meyer, Maggie Jones
    Digital Narrative: Erin Anderson
    AY 26-27 writer-in-residence: Clare Beams

    Past visiting writers include poets Toi Derricotte and Rickey Laurentiis, as well as fiction writers Mary Gaitskill and Allison Amend.

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 6
    Deadline: 1/7/26

  • University of San Francisco

    MFA Program
    San Francisco, CA
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: MK Chavez, D. A. Powell, Maw Shein Win
    Fiction: Stephen Beachy, Lewis Buzbee, Kate Folk, Miah Jeffra, Laleh Khadivi, Nancy Jooyoun Kim, Lauren Markham, K. M. Soehnlein, Susan Steinberg
    Nonfiction: Susan Kiyo Ito, Miah Jeffra, Dave Madden, Lauren Markham

    Visiting Writers include Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Cristina García, Aya de Leon, and Monica West.

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 30
    Deadline: 1/31/26

  • University of Saskatchewan

    MFA Program
    Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
    Core Faculty Includes:

    The core faculty includes Jeanette Lynes and Sheri Benning. The contributing faculty includes Sheheryar Sheikh.

    The faculty also includes other professional mentors from the writing community and faculty members from the division of Humanities and Fine Arts.

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

  • University of South Carolina, Columbia

    MFA Program
    Columbia, SC
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Samuel Amadon, Liz Countryman, Fred Dings, Nikky Finney
    Fiction: David Bajo, Elise Blackwell, Claire Jiménez
    Nonfiction: Jim Barilla

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 8
    Deadline: 1/15/25

  • University of South Florida

    MFA Program
    Tampa, FL
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Julie Koets, Natalie Scenters-Zapico, Heather Sellers. Ajibola Tolase
    Fiction: John Henry Fleming, Micah Hicks, Brenda Peynado, Jarod Roselló, Jake Wolff
    Nonfiction: Julie Koets, Heather Sellers, Jake Wolff
    Comics: Jarod Roselló

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 11-12
    Deadline: 1/1/26

  • University of Southern California

    PhD Program
    Los Angeles, CA
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Christian Campbell, Anna Journey, Robin Coste Lewis, Susan McCabe, David St. John
    Fiction: Aimee Bender, Percival Everett, Dana Johnson, Danzy Senna
    Nonfiction: Maggie Nelson, David Treuer

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 8-10
    Deadline: 12/1/25

  • University of Southern Mississippi

    MA Program
    Hattiesburg, MS
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Michael Aderibigbe, Angela Ball

    Fiction: J. A. Bernstein, Olivia Clare Friedman

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-Genre
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 3-4
    Deadline: 2/10/24

  • University of Southern Mississippi

    PhD Program
    Hattiesburg, MS
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Michael Aderibigbe, Angela Ball

    Fiction: J. A. Bernstein, Olivia Clare Friedman

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-Genre
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 3-4
    Deadline: 2/10/24

  • University of Tennessee, Knoxville

    MFA Program
    Knoxville, TN
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Cornelius Eady, Iliana Rocha
    Fiction: Margaret Lazarus Dean, Christopher Hebert, Michael Knight
    Nonfiction: Margaret Lazarus Dean

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 5
    Deadline: 12/1/25

  • University of Tennessee, Knoxville

    PhD Program
    Knoxville, TN
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Cornelius Eady, Iliana Rocha
    Fiction: Margaret Lazarus Dean, Christopher Hebert, Michael Knight
    Nonfiction: Margaret Lazarus Dean

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 2
    Deadline: 12/1/25

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