University of Virginia [1]
Meridian [2]
Poetry: Sumita Chakraborty, Rita Dove, Kiki Petrosino, Lisa Russ Spaar, Brian Teare
Fiction: Jane Alison, Jessie Ball, Anna Beecher, Jeb Livingood, Micheline Marcom, Kevin Moffett
The program offers full funding. All admitted students receive up to $36,000 in fellowships or wages each academic year in the standard three-year program. There is an option to graduate after two years. First-year students have no teaching obligations in their fall term but teach one creative writing course in the spring. Second-year students teach one section of intro poetry or fiction writing each term. Third-year students teach two courses per term, primarily composition.
The program hosts the Kapnick Distinguished Writer-in-Residence Program and the Rea Writer Series, which includes visits and one-on-one conferences with notable writers. The program also awards the $15,000 Henfield Prize, given for the best work of fiction written by a student in the program.
Students are not required to take the GREs for admission.