Program description: Located five miles from downtown Boston, the Solstice MFA Program helps its diverse student body reach their full potential as writers in a learning environment that fosters community and celebrates the individual. We offer concentrations in fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, comics & graphic narratives, and writing for children & young adults. We encourage cross-genre study and offer an applied track in pedagogy for those who hope to teach at the college level. Working with some of the best writers in the country, our students emerge with a strategy for continuing the development of their creative vision and a supportive circle of peers and mentors. Our graduates have published award-winning books, been featured in important literary journals, and are being hired for successful writing-related careers.
Pine Manor College
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- Subtitle: Solstice MFA in Creative Writing (low-res)
Contact Information:
Mailing Address:
- Mailing Address 1: 400 Heath Street
- Mailing City: Chestnut Hill
- Mailing State: MA
- Mailing Postal Code: 02467
- Program Director: Meg Kearney
- Program Contact: Beth Grosart Little
- Phone Number: (617) 731-7697
- Website: www.pmc.edu/mfa
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Program Information:
- Degree: MFA
- Type: low-residency
- Length of Program: 2 years
- Genre: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Children's, Young Adult
- Enrollment: 35
- Total Credits Required: 60
- Application Deadlines: Rolling
- Scholarships: yes (see website)
- Assistantships: yes (see website)
- Core Faculty: Kathleen Aguero, Venise Berry, Jedediah Berry, Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Nicole Terez Dutton, Amy Hoffman, Randall Horton, Steven Huff, Robert Lopez, Laura Williams McCaffrey, Josh Neufeld, Anne-Marie Oomen, Dzvinia Orlowsky, Iain Haley Pollock, Sandra Scofield, Renee Watson, Sterling Watson, Dave Yoo
- Visiting Faculty: Terrance Hayes, Helen Elaine Lee, Dennis Lehane, M.L. Liebler, Grace Lin, Michael Steinberg, Jacqueline Woodson, Randall Kenan
- Publishing/Editing Courses: yes (see website)
- Literary Magazine: Solstice
- Recent Visiting Writers: Richard Blanco, Joseph Bruchac, Amy Bloom, Rigoberto Gonzalez, Susan Orlean
- Short Program Description: Located five miles from downtown Boston, the Solstice MFA Program helps our diverse student body reach their full potential as writers in a learning environment that fosters community and celebrates the individual. We offer concentrations in fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, comics & graphic narratives, and writing for children & young adults. We encourage cross-genre study and offer an applied track in pedagogy for those who hope to teach at the college level.
- Contact Person: Tanya Whiton
- Contact Email:
- Contact Phone: (617) 731-7634
- State: Massachusetts
