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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 Houston

    PhD Program
    Houston, TX
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Erin Belieu, Nick Flynn, francine j. harris, Kevin Prufer, Martha Serpas, Roberto Tejada, Hayan Charara (visiting)
    Fiction: Robert Boswell, Chitra Divakaruni, Antonya Nelson, Alexander Parsons, Peter Turchi, Hayan Charara (visiting)
    Nonfiction: Nick Flynn, Peter Turchi

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

  • University of Houston

    MFA Program
    Houston, TX
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Erin Belieu, Nick Flynn, francine j. harris, Kevin Prufer, Martha Serpas, Roberto Tejada, Hayan Charara (visiting)
    Fiction: Robert Boswell, Chitra Divakaruni, Antonya Nelson, Alexander Parsons, Peter Turchi, Hayan Charara (visiting)
    Nonfiction: Nick Flynn, Peter Turchi

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

  • University of Idaho

    MFA Program
    Moscow, ID
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Michael McGriff, Alexandra Teague
    Fiction: Chris Drangle, Leah Hampton
    Nonfiction: Thomas Dai

    Recent visiting faculty includes Brian Evenson, Dorianne Laux, Maggie Nelson, Roger Reeves, Luis Alberto Urrea, Aisha Sabatini Sloan, Mary Szybist, and Kate Zambreno.

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 9
    Deadline: 1/15/26

  • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    MFA Program
    Urbana, IL
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Ángel García, Christopher Kempf, Corey Van Landingham
    Fiction: Gabriela Garcia, Amy Hassinger, Ted Sanders, Alex Shakar, David Wright Fal

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 6
    Deadline: 12/1/25

  • University of Illinois, Chicago

    MA Program
    Chicago, IL
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Daniel Borzutzky, Christina Pugh, Luis Urrea
    Fiction: Christopher Grimes, Mary Anne Mohanraj, Luis Urrea
    Nonfiction: Mary Anne Mohanraj, Luis Urrea

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 10-20
    Deadline: 2/15/26

  • University of Illinois, Chicago

    PhD Program
    Chicago, IL
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Daniel Borzutzky, Christina Pugh, Luis Urrea
    Fiction: Christopher Grimes, Mary Anne Mohanraj, Luis Urrea
    Nonfiction: Mary Anne Mohanraj, Luis Urrea

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

  • University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program

    MFA Program
    Iowa City, IA
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Tisa Bryant, John D’Agata, Melissa Febos, Sarah Minor, Bonnie Sunstein, Inara Verzemnieks

    Visiting Faculty includes: Hanif Abdurraqib, Dodie Bellamy, Jenny Boully, Bernard Cooper, Meghan Daum, Geoff Dyer, Vivian Gornick, Steve Kuusisto, Kiese Laymon, Honor Moore, Richard Preston, Lia Purpura, Paisely Rekdal, Mary Ruefle, Susan Steinberg, Terry Tempest Williams, Xu Xi

    Genre: Creative Nonfiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 10
    Deadline: 12/14/25

  • University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop

    MFA Program
    Iowa City, IA
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Mark Levine, Tracie Morris, Elizabeth Willis
    Fiction: Jamel Brinkley, Ethan Canin, Samantha Chang

    The Fall 2024 visiting faculty includes poets Anthony Cody and Margaret Ross, and fiction writers Abby Geni and Ada Zhang.

    The Spring 2024 visiting faculty includes poet Ari Banias, and fiction writers Tom Drury, Carmen Maria Machado, and Ada Zhang.

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 50
    Deadline: 12/15/24

  • University of Kansas

    PhD Program
    Lawrence, KS
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Fiction: Laura Moriarty, Silvia Park
    Playwriting: Darren Canady

    Genre: Fiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 0-3
    Deadline: 1/5/26

  • University of Kansas

    MFA Program
    Lawrence, KS
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Fiction: Laura Moriarty, Silvia Park
    Playwriting: Darren Canady

    Genre: Fiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 2-6
    Deadline: 1/5/26

  • University of Kentucky

    MFA Program
    Lexington, KY
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: DaMaris Hill, Julia Johnson, Shauna Morgan, Frank X Walker
    Fiction: DaMaris Hill, Andrew Milward, Hannah Pittard, Crystal Wilkinson, Melissa Scholes Young
    Creative Nonfiction: Janet Eldred, Andrew Milward, Hannah Pittard, Erik Reece, Crystal Wilkinson

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 12
    Deadline: 1/15/26

  • University of Maryland

    MFA Program
    College Park, MD
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, Joshua Weiner
    Fiction: Maud Casey, Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes, Emily Mitchell, Rion Amilcar Scott

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 6
    Deadline: 12/9/25

  • University of Massachusetts, Amherst

    MFA Program
    Amherst, MA
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Desiree C. Bailey, Abigail Chabitnoy, Peter Gizzi
    Prose: Gabriel Bump, Edie Meidav, Sabina Murray, Jeff Parker

    Visiting faculty is Okey Ndibe.

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 20
    Deadline: 12/15/25

  • University of Massachusetts, Boston

    MFA Program
    Boston, MA
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Shangyang Fang, Jill McDonough
    Fiction: John Fulton, Askold Melnyczuk

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

  • University of Memphis

    MFA Program
    Memphis, TN
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Emily Skaja, Marcus Wicker
    Prose: Mark Mayer, Courtney Miller Santo, Eric Schlich

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 8
    Deadline: 3/1/26

  • University of Miami

    MFA Program
    Coral Gables, FL
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Jaswinder Bolina, Kei Miller, Kimberly Reyes
    Fiction: Chantel Acevedo, Patricia Engel, M. Evelina Galang, Amina Gautier

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 5-6
    Deadline: 1/15/26

  • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

    MFA Program
    Ann Arbor, MI
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Aaron Coleman, Kelly Hoffer, Tung-hui Hu, Khaled Mattawa
    Fiction: Julie Buntin, Gabe Habash, Peter Ho Davies
    Creative Nonfiction: Aisha Sabatini Sloan

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 18
    Deadline: 12/15/25

  • University of Minnesota

    MFA Program
    Minneapolis, MN
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Aamina Ahmad, Peter Campion, V. V. Ganeshananthan, Megan Giddings, Douglas Kearney, Kathryn Nuernberger, Julie Schumacher, Kim Todd

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 9
    Deadline: 12/1/25

  • University of Mississippi, Oxford

    MFA Program
    Oxford, MS
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Beth Ann Fennelly, Melissa Ginsburg, Aimee Nezhukumatathil
    Fiction: Matthew Bondurant, Tom Franklin, Melissa Ginsburg, Sheila Sundar, Michael Wang

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 8
    Deadline: 12/15/25

  • University of Missouri

    PhD Program
    Columbia, MO
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Aliki Barnstone, Gabriel Fried
    Fiction: Trudy Lewis, Speer Morgan, Phong Nguyen
    Nonfiction: Donald Quist

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-Genre
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 5-7
    Deadline: 1/1/26

  • University of Missouri, Kansas City

    MFA Program
    Kansas City, MO
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Hadara Bar-Nadav, Jennifer Maritza McCauley
    Fiction: Christie Hodgen, Jennifer Maritza McCauley, Michael Pritchett, Whitney Terrell
    Nonfiction: Christie Hodgen, Whitney Terrell
    Playwriting: Collin Vorbeck
    Screenwriting: Lyn Elliot

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 17-20
    Deadline: 1/15/26

  • University of Missouri, St. Louis

    MFA Program
    St. Louis, MO
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Shane Seely
    Fiction: John Dalton

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 8-10
    Deadline: 3/1/26

  • University of Montana, Missoula

    MFA Program
    Missoula, MT
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: Brian Blanchfield, Sean Hill
    Fiction: Emily Ruskovich
    Nonfiction: Chris Dombrowski

    2024–2025 Visiting Faculty: Heid Erdrich (Poetry), Max Loskutoff (Fiction), Amy Leach (Nonfiction)

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 20
    Deadline: 1/6/25

  • University of Nebraska, Lincoln

    PhD Program
    Lincoln, NE
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: James Brunton, Saddiq Dzukogi, Hope Wabuke, Stacey Waite
    Prose: Joy Castro, Timothy Schaffert, Pascha Sotolongo Stevenson

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 6-8
    Deadline: 12/1/25

  • University of Nebraska, Lincoln

    MA Program
    Lincoln, NE
    Core Faculty Includes:

    Poetry: James Brunton, Saddiq Dzukogi, Hope Wabuke, Stacey Waite
    Prose: Joy Castro, Timothy Schaffert, Pascha Sotolongo Stevenson

    Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
    Residency: Full
    Incoming Class Size: 6
    Deadline: 12/1/25

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