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West Virginia Wesleyan College [1]

MFA
Buckhannon
WV
United States
Genre: 
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Application Fee: 
0
Residency: 
Low
Duration: 
2 Years
Incoming Class Size: 
5
Application Deadline: 
October 1, 2024
Core Faculty Includes: 

Poetry: Sara Henning, Devon McNamara, Doug Van Gundy
Fiction: Jonathan Corcoran, Jacinda Townsend, Robert Yune
Nonfiction: Jessica Handler, Randon Billings Noble, Meredith McCarroll

Website: 
https://www.wvwc.edu/master-of-fine-arts-program/ [2]
Funding/Employment Opportunities: 

The program offers partial funding through scholarships, loans, and an annual postgraduate teaching fellowship.

Other Features: 

Students attend two nine- or ten-day residencies each year and one final residency at the end of the program. Students can complete a secondary-genre concentration with an additional semester of study.

The program, which offers a focus on place-based writing, hosts a reading series during each residency.

The application deadline is October 1 for the January residency and April 1 for the July residency. Applications are accepted year-round.

Regular Deadlines
Contact E-mail: 
mfa@wvwc.edu [3]
Contact Name: 
Doug Van Gundy

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

Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/mfa/west_virginia_wesleyan_college [2] https://www.wvwc.edu/master-of-fine-arts-program/ [3] mailto:mfa@wvwc.edu