Bennington College [1]
MFA
Bennington
VT
United States
Genre:
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-Genre
Application Fee:
70
Residency:
Low
Incoming Class Size:
20-25 every semester
Duration:
2 Years
Application Deadline:
September 1, 2018
Website:
Core Faculty Includes:
Poetry: April Bernard, Jenny Boully, Major Jackson, Mark Wunderlich
Fiction: David Gates, Manuel Gonzales, Amy Hempel, Alice Mattison, Jill McCorkle, Deirdre McNamer, Stuart Nadler, Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Nonfiction: Benjamin Anastas, Douglas Bauer, Susan Cheever, Dinah Lenney, Clifford Thompson, Peter Trachtenberg
Funding/Employment Opportunities:
The program offers partial funding through partial scholarships.
Other Features:
Students attend two ten-day residencies each year, in January and June, at the Bennington College campus in Bennington, Vermont. The program hosts a nightly reading series and a visiting writers series, as well as lectures, craft sessions, and publishing courses.
The application deadline is September 1 for the January residency and March 1 for the June residency.
Regular Deadlines
Contact E-mail:
Contact Name:
Dawn Dayton