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Fresno State [1]

MFA
Fresno
CA
United States
Genre: 
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Application Fee: 
70
Affiliated Publications/Publishers: 

The Normal School [2], San Joaquin Review [3]

Residency: 
Full
Duration: 
3 Years
Incoming Class Size: 
12-15
Application Deadline: 
March 1, 2026
Core Faculty Includes: 

Poetry: Brynn Saito, Mai Der Vang
Fiction: Venita Blackburn, Randa Jarrar
Nonfiction: Steven Church, Brenna Womer

Website: 
https://www.fresnostate.edu/creativewriting [4]
Funding/Employment Opportunities: 

The program offers partial funding. The program offers scholarships; one-year nonresident fee waivers; teaching assistantships; graduate assistantships; and conference and travel funding.

Other Features: 

Philip Levine Prize for Poetry [5] book contest; Fresno Poets’ Association [6] reading series; annual Young Writers’ Conference [7] for area high school students; San Joaquin Literary Association; Chicanx Writers and Artists Association; Hmong American Ink & Stories club; Fresno State MFA blog [8]; and many student opportunities in professional publishing and editing, literary events programming, and teaching.

Regular Deadlines
Contact E-mail: 
jbeavers@mail.fresnostate.edu [9]
Contact Name: 
Jefferson Beavers
Source URL:https://www.pw.org/content/fresno_state

Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/content/fresno_state [2] https://www.pw.org/literary_magazines/the_normal_school [3] https://www.sanjoaquinreview.com [4] https://www.fresnostate.edu/creativewriting [5] http://www.fresnostate.edu/levineprize [6] http://fresnostate.edu/fresnopoets [7] http://www.fresnostate.edu/youngwriters [8] http://fresnostatemfa.wordpress.com/ [9] mailto:jbeavers@mail.fresnostate.edu