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California College of the Arts [1]

MFA
San Francisco
CA
United States
Genre: 
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Application Fee: 
70
Residency: 
Full
Duration: 
2 Years
Incoming Class Size: 
12
Application Deadline: 
January 15, 2025
Core Faculty Includes: 

Faith Adiele, Tom Barbash, Dodie Bellamy, Rita Bullwinkel, Jasmin Darznik, Joseph Lease, Trisha Ya-Wen Low, Denise Newman, Aimee Phan, Leslie Carol Roberts

Website: 
https://www.cca.edu/academics/graduate/writing [2]
Funding/Employment Opportunities: 

The program offers merit scholarships, diversity scholarships, and chair's scholarships. Teaching assistantships are also widely available.

Other Features: 

Situated within an arts college with over a hundred years of history, CCA’s MFA program offers four semesters of one-on-one mentorship and allows ample opportunity to take courses across an array of disciplines, including film and visual art. Internships are available with Bay Area literary centers such as City Lights Publishers and 826 Valencia. The program is a long-standing sponsor of the Litquake Festival and the Bay Area Book Festival and hosts Tuesday Talks, a visiting writers series.

The priority application deadline is January 15. The application will open in August; applications received after February 1 will be reviewed individually on a rolling basis.

Regular Deadlines
Contact E-mail: 
jdarznik@cca.edu [3]
Contact Name: 
Jasmin Darznik

Source URL:https://www.pw.org/content/california_college_arts

Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/content/california_college_arts [2] https://www.cca.edu/academics/graduate/writing [3] mailto:jdarznik@cca.edu