Stonecoast MFA, University of Southern Maine [1]
Poetry: Chen Chen, Martín Espada, Amanda Johnston, Katherine Larson, Debra Marquart, Cate Marvin, Lauren Marie Schmidt
Fiction: JJ Amaworo Wilson, Rick Bass, Breena Clarke, Susan Conley, Ron Currie Jr., David Anthony Durham, Aaron Hamburger, Elizabeth Hand, Cara Hoffman, Elizabeth Searle, Suzanne Strempek Shea
Genre Fiction: JJ Amaworo Wilson, Tobias Bucknell, Tom Coash, David Anthony Durham, John Florio, Theodora Goss, Elizabeth Hand, Cara Hoffman, Robert Levy, Elizabeth Searle
Creative Nonfiction: Faith Adiele, Rick Bass, Susan Conley, John Florio, Aaron Hamburger, Katherine Larson, Debra Marquart, Suzanne Strempek Shea
The program offers partial funding through scholarships and graduate assistantships.
The program also offers a track in genre fiction, in addition to tracks in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. The program offers concentrations in literary craft, critical theory, creative collaboration, pedagogy, and publishing, with possibilities for elective work in other areas including scriptwriting, translation, and cross-genre. Students are free to work in multiple and hybrid genres. Stonecoast students receive one-on-one mentoring from writing faculty.
Students attend two ten-day residencies each year, in January and late June, in Freeport, Maine. Stonecoast also holds an annual residency in Dingle, Ireland.
The application deadline is September 1 for the January residency and March 1 for the June residency. The program recommends submitting the online portion of the application form no later than August 15 for the January residency and and no later than February 15 for the June residency.