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University of Montana, Missoula [1]

MFA
Missoula
MT
United States
Genre: 
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Application Fee: 
60
Affiliated Publications/Publishers: 

CutBank [2]

Residency: 
Full
Duration: 
2-3 Years
Incoming Class Size: 
20
Application Deadline: 
January 6, 2025
Core Faculty Includes: 

Poetry: Brian Blanchfield, Sean Hill
Fiction: Emily Ruskovich
Nonfiction: Chris Dombrowski

2024–2025 Visiting Faculty: Heid Erdrich (Poetry), Max Loskutoff (Fiction), Amy Leach (Nonfiction)

Website: 
https://www.umt.edu/creative-writing [3]
Funding/Employment Opportunities: 

The program offers fully-funded opportunities through teaching assistantships, and partial funding through scholarships, fellowships (including the Truman Capote Fellowship) and other awards.

Other Features: 

The program offers the student-run reading series Second Wind; an annual “Life after MFA” publishing conference; semester-long visiting writers in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction; and a superb visiting writers series.

GRE scores are no longer an application requirement.

Regular Deadlines
Contact E-mail: 
christopher.dombrowski@mso.umt.edu [4]
Contact Name: 
Chris Dombrowski

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

Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/content/university_montana_missoula [2] https://www.pw.org/literary_magazines/cutbank [3] https://www.umt.edu/creative-writing [4] mailto:christopher.dombrowski@mso.umt.edu