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Stonecoast MFA, University of Southern Maine [1]

MFA
Portland
ME
United States
Genre: 
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Application Fee: 
0
Affiliated Publications/Publishers: 

Stonecoast Review [2]

Residency: 
Low
Duration: 
2 Years
Incoming Class Size: 
12-18 per residency
Application Deadline: 
September 1, 2024
Core Faculty Includes: 

Poetry: Chen Chen, Raina León, Debra Marquart, Cate Marvin

Fiction: Rick Bass, Susan Conley, Ron Currie Jr., Aaron Hamburger, Elizabeth Searle, Morgan Talty

Popular Fiction: JJ Amaworo Wilson, Tobias Bucknell, Tom Coash, John Florio, Alex Jennings, Elizabeth Hand, Robert Levy, Elizabeth Searle

Creative Nonfiction: Faith Adiele, Rick Bass, Susan Conley, John Florio, Aaron Hamburger, Raina León, Debra Marquart, Morgan Talty

Scriptwriting: Tom Coash, Ron Currie Jr., David Anthony Durham, Jeni Mahoney, Elizabeth Searle

Website: 
https://www.usm.maine.edu/stonecoastmfa [3]
Funding/Employment Opportunities: 

The program offers partial funding through scholarships and graduate assistantships.

Other Features: 

In addition to genre tracks in poetry, fiction, popular fiction, and creative nonfiction, Stonecoast’s students are encouraged to work in multiple and hybrid genres.

Stonecoast’s Writing for Inclusivity and Social Equity (WISE) Initiative addresses a range of issues, including the effects of systemic racism, the responsibility of literary citizenship, and the effects of climate change.

Students attend two ten-day residencies each year, in January and late June, on the coast of Maine. The deadlines are September 1 and March 1.

Regular Deadlines
Contact E-mail: 
stonecoastmfa@maine.edu [4]

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

Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/content/stonecoast_university_southern_maine [2] https://www.pw.org/literary_magazines/stonecoast_review [3] https://www.usm.maine.edu/stonecoastmfa [4] mailto:stonecoastmfa@maine.edu