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  • Creative Writing Program

    Creative Writing Hero

  • Â鶹´«Ã½É«ÇéƬ invites you to join a community of diverse writers, become part of New York City’s publishing world, and build a network of support on campus and beyond. Our prestigious MFA Creative Writing program is designed to help you develop your writing in supportive workshops and literature seminars led by an internationally recognized faculty and renowned authors.

  • 40+

    books published annually by alumni and faculty

    60+

    annual writing events, including the National Book Awards Finalist Reading

    93%

    of admitted MFA students awarded merit-based university scholarships (2020–2021)

  • As an MFA student at Â鶹´«Ã½É«ÇéƬ, you can choose your concentration—in Arts Writing, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, or Writing for Children and Young Adults—and receive personalized faculty mentorship and faculty and peer critiques. Innovative courses in publishing and multimedia storytelling engage you in the development of literature. Popular graduate minors include Impact Entrepreneurship and Transmedia and Digital Storytelling. Or you can apply to WriteOn NYC!, a Â鶹´«Ã½É«ÇéƬ–funded fellowship program providing MFA students with high-quality teaching experience in area middle schools and high schools. All students benefit from evening classes and events, which enable them to work or attend responsibilities during the day while enrolled in a  full-time program.

  • Â鶹´«Ã½É«ÇéƬ's faculty for writing and literature is a veritable who's who of American writers. Core faculty serve as coordinators and advisors for each genre of study offered by the program. The MFA program's extensive roster of full-time, part-time, and visiting faculty members include award-winning poets, novelists, essayists, and visual artists who also work across and between genres.  

  • Creative Writing students can choose one of five concentrations: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Arts Writing, and Writing for Children and Young Adults. They can also choose or add a dual concentration, a three-year program.

  • Creative Writing students come to Â鶹´«Ã½É«ÇéƬ from across the United States and around the world to live the writer's life in New York City. Evenings with agents and editors, offered exclusively for MFA students, provide informal opportunities to meet publishing professionals.

  • Â鶹´«Ã½É«ÇéƬ Bookshelf

    We are proud to feature books recently published by Â鶹´«Ã½É«ÇéƬ's Creative Writing community.

    • Â鶹´«Ã½É«ÇéƬ Bookshelf - The Friend

      The Friend

      Sigrid Nunez, Faculty
      National Book Award for Fiction
    • Â鶹´«Ã½É«ÇéƬ Bookshelf - Hurricane Child

      Hurricane Child

      Kacen Callender, MFA '14
      Stonewall Book Award
    • Â鶹´«Ã½É«ÇéƬ Bookshelf - The Impeachers

      The Impeachers

      Brenda Wineapple, Faculty
      "Vivid and perceptive" The New York Times
    • Â鶹´«Ã½É«ÇéƬ Bookshelf - The January Children

      The January Children

      Safia Elhillo, MFA '15
      Arab American Book Award
    • Â鶹´«Ã½É«ÇéƬ Bookshelf - Good Talk

      Good Talk

      Mira Jacob, Faculty and MFA '01
      "[A] showstopping memoir about race in America" Kirkus Reviews

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