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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.
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Core Faculty Includes:
Poetry: Tara Betts, Martín Espada, Amanda Johnston, Katherine Larson, Debra Marquart, Cate Marvin, Lauren Marie Schmidt, Diane Seuss
Fiction: JJ Amaworo Wilson, Rick Bass, Breena Clarke, David Anthony Durham, Aaron Hamburger, Elizabeth Hand, Cara Hoffman, Porochista Khakpour, Elizabeth Searle, Suzanne Strempek Shea
Genre Fiction: Tobias Bucknell, Tom Coash, David Anthony Durham, Theodora Goss, Elizabeth Hand, Nancy Holder, James Patrick Kelly, Robert Levy, Robert V.S. Redick, Elizabeth Searle
Creative Nonfiction: Faith Adiele, Rick Bass, Susan Conley, T. Clutch Fleischmann, Aaron Hamburger, Richard Hoffman, Katherine Larson, Debra Marquart, Suzanne Strempek Shea
Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionResidency: LowIncoming Class Size: 18 per residencyDeadline: 9/1/20 -
Core Faculty Includes:
Poetry: Star Black, Billy Collins, Cornelius Eady, Julie Sheehan
Fiction: Melissa Bank, Molly Gaudry, Paul Harding, Ursula Hegi, Amy Hempel, Kaylie Jones, Matthew Klam, Susan Scarf Merrell, Susan Minot, Robert Reeves, Frederic Tuten, Emma Walton Hamilton, Meg Wolitzer
Nonfiction: Neal Gabler, Robert Lopez, Patricia McCormick, Patricia Marx, Roger Rosenblatt, Lou Ann Walker
Screenwriting: Annette Handley ChandlerGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionResidency: FullIncoming Class Size: 15-25Deadline: 1/1/21 -
Core Faculty Includes:
Poetry: Brooks Haxton, Mary Karr, Christopher Kennedy, Bruce Smith
Fiction: Mona Awad, Jonathan Dee, George Saunders, Dana Spiotta
Teaching Faculty: Matthew Grzecki, Sarah Harwell
Genre: Poetry, FictionResidency: FullIncoming Class Size: 12Deadline: 12/15/20 -
Core Faculty Includes:
Poetry: Jena Osman, Yolanda Wisher
Fiction: Don Lee, Liz Moore, Alan SingerGenre: Poetry, FictionResidency: FullIncoming Class Size: 12Deadline: 2/15/21 -
Core Faculty Includes:
Poetry: Cyrus Cassells, Roger Jones, Naomi Shihab Nye, Cecily Parks, Kathleen Peirce, Steve Wilson
Fiction: Doug Dorst, Jennifer duBois, Tom Grimes, Debra Monroe, Tim O’Brien, and Téa ObrehtGenre: Poetry, FictionResidency: FullIncoming Class Size: 20Deadline: 1/22/21 -
Core Faculty Includes:
Poetry: Mark Bibbins, Elaine Equi, Robert Polito, Camille Rankine, Laurie Sheck
Fiction: Ann-Marie Hood, Shelley Jackson, Mira Jacob, Luis Jaramillo, Alexandra Kleeman, James Lasdun, Patrick McGrath, Sigrid Nunez, Dale Peck, John Reed, Helen Schulman, Darcey Steinke, Stephen Wright
Nonfiction: Susan Cheever, Zia Jaffrey, Suzannah Lessard, Honor Moore, Benjamin Taylor, Brenda Wineapple
Writing for Children and Young Adults: Coe Booth, Caron Levis, Andrea Pinkney, Tor SeidlerGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionResidency: FullIncoming Class Size: 95Deadline: 1/15/21 -
Core Faculty Includes:
Poetry: Betsy Bonner, Anaïs Duplan, Randall Horton, Catherine Meehan, Carly Joy Miller
Prose: David Gates, Steven Hobbs, Lee Clay Johnson, Wayétu MoorePast thesis advisors: Paul LaFarge, Lee Clay Johnson, Nathan McClain, Randall Horton, Safiya Sinclair, Joel Whitney, Leah Nanako Winkler
Past master lecturers have included Amy Hempel, Major Jackson, Mary Gaitskill, Nathan McClain, Francine Prose, and Ocean Vuong.
Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionResidency: FullIncoming Class Size: 10Deadline: 3/1/21 -
Core Faculty Includes:
Fiction: Aashish Kaul, Edward Schwarzschild, Lynne Tillman
Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Cross-GenreResidency: FullIncoming Class Size: 10-20Deadline: 11/1/20 -
Core Faculty Includes:
Fiction: Aashish Kaul, Edward Schwarzschild, Lynne Tillman
Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Cross-GenreResidency: FullIncoming Class Size: 6-8Deadline: 1/15/21 -
Core Faculty Includes:
Poetry: Judith Goldman, Myung Mi Kim, Steve McCaffery
Fiction: Dimitri Anastasopoulos, Christina MillettiGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Cross-GenreResidency: FullIncoming Class Size: 10Deadline: Rolling Admissions -
Core Faculty Includes:
Poetry: Robin Behn, John Estes, Kwoya Fagin Maples, Heidi Lynn Staples
Fiction: Nana Nkweti, Wendy Rawlings, Kellie Wells
Nonfiction: Wendy RawlingsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-GenreResidency: FullIncoming Class Size: 16-20Deadline: 12/1/20 -
Core Faculty Includes:
Poetry: Sara Eliza Johnson
Fiction: Gerri Brightwell, Joseph Holt
Nonfiction: Daryl Farmer
Dramatic Writing: Leonard KamerlingGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionResidency: FullIncoming Class Size: 5-8Deadline: 1/15/21 -
Core Faculty Includes:
Poetry: Susan Briante, Bojan Louis, Farid Matuk
Fiction: Kate Bernheimer, Manuel Muñoz, Aurelie Sheehan, Johanna Skibsrud
Nonfiction: Christopher Cokinos, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Ander MonsonGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionResidency: FullIncoming Class Size: 12Deadline: 12/15/20 -
Core Faculty Includes:
Poetry: Sarah Bloom, Jessica Hylton
Fiction: Kelsey Englert, Mark Spencer
Nonfiction: Amy Knox Brown, Sheyenne HellerGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionResidency: OnlineIncoming Class Size: 7Deadline: 12/1/20 -
Core Faculty Includes:
Poetry: Steven Leyva
Fiction: Betsy Boyd, Jane Delury
Nonfiction: Marion Winik, D. WatkinsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionResidency: FullIncoming Class Size: 25Deadline: 2/15/21 -
Core Faculty Includes:
Poetry: Keith Maillard, Sheryda Warrener, Bronwen Tate
Fiction: Nancy Lee, Annabel Lyon, Keith Maillard, Maureen Medved, Alix Ohlin, Emily Pohl-Weary, Linda Svendsen, Timothy Taylor, John Vigna
Nonfiction: Timothy Taylor
Writing for Children/YA: Alison Acheson
Screenwriting: Sharon McGowan
Playwriting: Bryan Wade
Indigenous Writing: Billy-Ray Belcourt
Graphic Novel: Sarah Leavitt
Lyric & Libretto: Tariq HussainGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionResidency: FullIncoming Class Size: 18–20Deadline: 1/8/21 -
Core Faculty Includes:
Poetry: Susan Musgrave, Bronwen Tate
Fiction: Nancy Lee, Annabel Lyon, Maureen Medved, Alix Ohlin, Linda Svendsen, Timothy Taylor
Children/YA: Emily Pohl-Weary, Maggie De Vries
Nonfiction: Bronwen Tate
Graphic Novel: Sarah Leavitt
Screenwriting: Sara GraefeGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionResidency: OnlineIncoming Class Size: 25Deadline: 1/8/21 -
Core Faculty Includes:
Poetry: Katie Peterson, Margaret Ronda, Joe Wenderoth
Fiction: Lucy Corin, Pam Houston
Nonfiction: Pam Houston
Hybrid: Lucy Corin, Katie PetersonGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-GenreResidency: FullIncoming Class Size: 10-12Deadline: 1/5/21 -
Core Faculty Includes:
Poetry: Amy Gerstler, F. Douglas Brown
Fiction: Dana Johnson, Michelle Latiolais
Genre: Poetry, FictionResidency: FullIncoming Class Size: 6 (for Poetry course), 6 (for Fiction course)Deadline: 12/11/20 -
Core Faculty Includes:
Poetry: Allison Hedge Coke, Katie Ford, Allison Benis White
Fiction: Charmaine Craig, Josh Emmons, Steve Erickson, Alex Espinoza, Nalo Hopkinson, Michael Jayme, John Jennings, Laila Lalami, Goldberry Long, Jane Smiley, Susan Straight, Andrew Winer
Nonfiction: Reza Aslan, Emily Rapp Black, Tom Lutz
Playwriting/Screenwriting: Erith Jaffe-Berg, Charles Evered, Rickerby Hinds, Stu Krieger, Robin RussinGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionResidency: FullIncoming Class Size: 18Deadline: 1/5/21 -
Core Faculty Includes:
Poetry: Jill Alexander Essbaum, Anthony McCann
Fiction: Elizabeth Crane, Gina Frangello, Tod Goldberg, Stephen Graham Jones, Mary Otis, Rob Roberge, Mark Haskell Smith, Mary Yukari Waters
Nonfiction: Emily Rapp, Deanne Stillman, David L. Ulin
Screenwriting: Joshua Malkin, William Rabkin, John Schimmel
Playwriting: Mickey BirnbaumCritic-in-Residence: Heather Scott Partington
Screenwriter-in-Residence: Jackie McKinley
Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionResidency: LowIncoming Class Size: 35 per yearDeadline: 2/1/21 -
Core Faculty Includes:
Kazim Ali, Amy Sara Carroll, Ben Doller, Camille Forbes, Lily Hoang, Jac Jemc, Brandon Som, Anna Joy Springer
Genre: Cross-GenreResidency: FullIncoming Class Size: 4-8Deadline: 12/11/20 -
Core Faculty Includes:
Poetry: Sandy Longhorn, Mark Spitzer
Fiction: M. Shelly Conner, Mark Spitzer, John Vanderslice, Stephanie Vanderslice
Nonfiction: Jennie Case, Mark Spitzer, Stephanie VandersliceGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionResidency: FullIncoming Class Size: 5-8Deadline: 2/1/21 -
Core Faculty Includes:
Poetry: Rochelle Hurt, Obi Nwakanma, Terry Ann Thaxton
Fiction: Micah Dean Hicks, Chrissy Kolaya, Brenda Peynado, David James Poissant, Darlin' Neal, Jacob Wolff
Nonfiction: Jocelyn Bartkevicius, Lisa Roney, Laurie Rachkus UttichGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionResidency: FullIncoming Class Size: 12-14Deadline: 1/1/21 -
Core Faculty Includes:
Poetry: Matt Hollrah
Fiction: Constance Squires
Screenwriting: James DaroAlicia Mountain is the Artist-in-Residence.
Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionResidency: FullIncoming Class Size: 10-15Deadline: Rolling Admissions