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Cedar Crest College [1]

MFA
Dublin, Barcelona, and Vienna
United States
Genre: 
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-Genre
Application Fee: 
50
Residency: 
Low
Duration: 
2-3 Years
Incoming Class Size: 
10-12 per year
Application Deadline: 
August 1, 2025
Core Faculty Includes: 

Poetry: Heather Green, Gwyneth Lewis, Alice Miller, Ruben Quesada, Peter Streckfus
Fiction: Robert Antoni, Aleksandar Hemon, Alison Espach, Diana Spechler, David Heska Wambli Weiden
Nonfiction: Anna Ciezadlo, Aleksandar Hemon, Gwyneth Lewis, Diana Spechler

Website: 
https://cedarcrest.edu/program/creative-writing/master [2]
Other Features: 

Students attend a 15-day residency each year in July, which rotates between Dublin, Barcelona, and Vienna.

The program offers a track in travel writing, in addition to tracks in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and screenwriting. Students also have the option to pursue a dual-genre degree.

The program offers scholarships, graduate assistantships, teaching opportunities, monthly craft and publishing webinars, and optional fall and spring meetups at national writing conferences such as AWP’s annual convention.

The application deadline is April 1 for the summer residency, August 1 for the fall term, and December 1 for the spring term.

Regular Deadlines
Contact E-mail: 
acwellfo@cedarcrest.edu [3]
Contact Name: 
Alison Wellford

Source URL:https://www.pw.org/mfa/cedar_crest_college

Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/mfa/cedar_crest_college [2] https://cedarcrest.edu/program/creative-writing/master [3] mailto:acwellfo@cedarcrest.edu