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Located on the coast of Boca Ciega Bay in St. Petersburg, Florida, the Fourteenth Annual Eckerd College Writers’ Conference: Writers in Paradise offers workshops, craft talks, panels, Q&As, readings, book signings and receptions with our award-winning faculty and guests. Our 2018 lineup includes: Russell Banks, Lan Samantha Chang, Tim Dorsey, Andre Dubus III, Ann Hood, Major Jackson, Laura Lippman, Laura McCaffrey, Peter Meinke, Ana Menendez, Stewart O’Nan, Cathie Pelletier, Michael Ruhlman, Les Standiford, Helen Wallace, Sterling Watson, agent Alexis Hurley, editor Colleen Lawrie and more. Over 20 fellowships and scholarships available. Learn more and apply at writersinparadise.com.

In our fifth year! Seven-day intensive for writers at all levels in our Pueblo Magico by the Pacific. Faculty: Christopher Merrill (poetry); Jeanne McCulloch (memoir); Gordon Chaplin (fiction); Rex Weiner (journalism); Merrill Feitell (short story/essay); Guest writers: Jonathan Penner, Ellen Waterston, Robert Houston. “What better place to read, write, and talk about the art and craft of writing than Todos Santos, where all the saints of the sea and sky watch over you?” Christopher Merrill, Director, International Writing Program, University of Iowa. www.todossantoswritersworkshop.com

It starts in Cambridge, Massachusetts—a world literary capital—during 9-day residencies designed to move your writing forward. Through Lesley University’s low-residency MFA in Creative Writing, ranked #4 by Poets & Writers, you’ll work one-on-one with groundbreaking authors, developing your own writing, studying craft technique, and reading widely in your genre. You’ll pursue interdisciplinary study in the form of internships, study abroad, or independent study, as a spur for new ideas. And you’ll put your WORK before prominent publishers, agencies, and literary figures who, as masters of their craft and passionate mentors, will give you the tough love you need to bring your writing to the world. lesley.edu/mfa-writing-program

Application Deadline: March 1, 2018
The MFA program at the University of Missouri-St. Louis provides an intimate and supportive community for writers to hone their craft. Work with award-winning faculty in a city with a rich and varied literary history, and emerge prepared to write that history's next chapters. www.umsl.edu/~mfa/

Application Deadline: January 15, 2018
Our 2 1/2-year program offers students a personalized learning experience with access to San Francisco’s vital literary community. Students focus on fiction (including the novel), poetry, or nonfiction and may cross genres. In small workshops and seminars, students work closely with award-winning writers. Thesis instruction provides one-on-one mentoring with faculty for two semesters. The Reading Series brings acclaimed writers to campus. Students have the opportunity to gain professional development and to work on our journal Switchback. Merit fellowships, including a fully-funded biannual poetry fellowship, teaching assistantships, and post-graduate teaching fellowships are offered. www.usfca.edu/mfaw

Write yourself the adventure of a lifetime! Our workshops are designed to help you evolve as a writer with individual attention from a faculty of prize-winning authors. UNO's innovative Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing combines distance learning with study abroad. During the fall and spring semesters, you will take part in online workshops, literature, and craft classes. Every summer, you will attend a month-long summer residency in Ireland or Italy where you interact face-to-face with classmates and a diverse group of renowned writers. Applications for the summer residencies accepted October through May, and the MFA application deadlines are October 1 for spring, and March 15 for the fall/summer. inst.uno.edu/writing. Your adventure awaits! www.inst.uno.edu/writing/

Hofstra University offers an MFA in Creative Writing program with concentrations in fiction, poetry, playwriting, and creative nonfiction. Located just 25 miles east of New York City, Hofstra allows students to pursue a curriculum that is guided by a diverse and distinguished faculty, and mixes workshop with literature and craft courses. Hofstra also offers two literary journals for your work: AMP (co-sponsored by the MFA program and the Department of English) and Windmill: The Hofstra Journal of Literature & Art (a joint project of Hofstra University’s MFA in Creative Writing and BA in English/Publishing Studies). www.hofstra.edu/mfa

Application Deadline: February 1st, 2018
Our new three-year program offers specializations in fiction and poetry, and is especially tailored to students who are interested in exploring a variety of career paths. At the center of our unique curriculum is a one-year service-learning component, Writer in the World, that will prepare students for meaningful employment in or outside of academia, and help them sustain a rewarding artistic life beyond graduation. Students will also have the opportunity to study literary editing and work with Sou’wester. Edwardsville, Illinois is just twenty minutes from a thriving literary and arts scene in St. Louis. siue.edu/grad/creative-writing.

Application Deadline: January 15, 2018
Florida Atlantic University at Boca Raton, a diverse community with all of the cultural advantages of a major metropolitan setting, is located three miles from the Atlantic Ocean, halfway between Palm Beach and Fort Lauderdale. Students in the MFA program specialize in fiction, poetry, or creative nonfiction, pursuing half of their coursework in creative writing workshops and half in literature and theory seminars. The program requires completion of a creative thesis and features small, rigorous workshops and seminars. Thesis hours are conducted one-on-one with individual faculty. Students also curate our national literary magazine, Swamp Ape Review. www.fau.edu/english/mfa/

Application Deadline: February 1, 2018
Designed for people who need to stay close to home for most of the year, the low-residency MFA program at Augsburg revolves around an annual ten day summer residency. Designed like a literary festival, it includes workshops, panel discussions, craft talks, and readings from morning to night. During the fall and spring semesters, our students work remotely with a mentor in their chosen field: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, screenwriting or playwriting. In addition to offering courses of study in these genres, we offer career-enhancing concentrations in teaching and translation, and operate a student-run publishing house that publishes one book per year. augsburg.edu/mfa

Applications accepted year-round.
The Creative Writing MFA at Florida International University’s Biscayne Bay Campus—whose alums include Dennis Lehane, Patricia Engel, and Richard Blanco, and many others—offers small seminars, intense mentoring, and a dedicated faculty who are highly successful working writers. Students gain hands-on experience with publishing and editing via our literary journal, Gulf Stream Magazine, and The Florida Book Review; they meet and hear visiting authors at our Lawrence Sanders Award Lecture and the Writers on the Bay Reading Series. It is a tightly-knit community of writers working amidst the tropical beauty, social diversity, and cultural dynamism of Miami. Les Standiford (Director), Lynne Barrett, Denise Duhamel, John Dufrense, Debra Dean, Campbell McGrath, Julie Marie Wade. english.fiu.edu/creative-writing/mfa

Applications accepted year-round.
Join us on a creative journey and work toward the completion of your master’s degree and a publishable work of literature. Study fiction, poetry, nonfiction, or travel writing with award-winning faculty-authors in inspiring locations across Europe. The program unites gifted student-authors from around the world for three 15-day intensive workshops, held during the first two weeks of July in locations that are rich in culture and literary significance: Dublin, Ireland; Barcelona, Spain; and Vienna, Austria. The remainder of your studies take place on your time and in your home. Visit mfa.cedarcrest.edu to learn more and apply.

Start your writing career at the Arkansas Writer's MFA Workshop. Join an active literary community that includes the Oxford American and Arkana online literary journal. Enjoy a high faculty-student ratio in this small program where faculty are dedicated to student success. In our first five years, five alumni have published books and published work in national outlets such as The Rumpus, The Washington Post and the Denver Quarterly. Will you be the next one? See our web page for application information and check out our blog. uca.edu/ftcw/mfa-in-creative-writing/

Vermont's Arts-Educator of the Year, Peter Gould wrote the fantasy fiction Burnt Toast in 1972: the first published novel about the "back-to-the-land" movement. His political play "A Peasant of El Salvador" received two national Human Rights Awards. Peter's Young Adult novel, Write Naked, won the 2009 National Green Earth Book Award for its eco-content. Horse-Drawn Yogurt is his new long-awaited memoir of ten years on a Vermont farm commune. His live book events, with history, writing prompts, and audience participation, are guaranteed to engage, instruct, and inspire in classrooms and lecture halls around the U.S.A. More info: petergouldvermont.com.

Creativity Workshops in New York, Florence, Lisbon, Crete, Barcelona, Verona, and Prague. "I wrote my first published memoir because of this class. The instructors are magicians! They gently pushed us into discovering our unique creativity."—Carroll Blue, author of the memoir The Dawn at my Back. We use many different techniques to help you find your way through the novel, memoir, or script you are writing or hope to write. You will do free writing, guided visualizations, collaborative writing, journaling, memoir, and even some rudimentary drawing, collage, and photography. Learn how to stay inspired and overcome writers block. www.creativityworkshop.com.