MFA in Creative Writing Program
poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction
Bard College
Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts
MFA in Creative Writing (low-res)
fiction, poetry
Binghamton University – SUNY
Creative Writing Program :: MA, PhD
poetry, fiction, nonfiction, writing for children
Brooklyn College – CUNY
MFA in Creative Writing
fiction, poetry, playwriting
City College of New York – CUNY
MFA in Creative Writing
fiction, nonfiction, poetry, playwriting, screenwriting
Columbia University School of the Arts
Program description: The Columbia University School of the Arts MFA Writing Program, offering concentrations in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry, and a joint course of study in Literary Translation, is highly regarded for artistic diversity and for its outstanding faculty of acclaimed writers and editors. The rigorous approach to literary instruction requires 60 credits over 2-3 years of study.
At the core of the curriculum is the writing workshop. All workshops are small, ensuring that all students present work at least three times per semester. Students receive substantial written responses to their work from their professors and classmates and have regularly scheduled one-on-one conferences with faculty. Thesis workshops are dedicated to shaping each student’s work into book form.
The School of the Arts Writing Program considers the study of literature from the practitioner’s point of view—reading as a writer—essential to a writer’s education. In addition to workshops, students take craft-oriented seminars and/or lectures designed to illuminate, inform, augment, and inspire each student’s experience and practice as a writer. New seminars, lectures, and master classes are created every year.
Extracurricular programming includes Life After the MFA professional panels and the annual Agents Mixer, Columbia Journal, Columbia Artists/Teachers, Incarcerated Writers Initiative, Veterans Writers Workshop, and Our Word (students advocating diversity).
Scholarships, teaching fellowships, and internships are available.
Cornell University
MFA in Creative Writing (low-res)
fiction, nonfiction, poetry
Hunter College – CUNY
MFA Creative Writing
fiction, nonfiction, poetry
Lehman College – CUNY
MA in English
fiction, poetry, professional writing
Long Island University – Brooklyn
MFA in Creative Writing
fiction, nonfiction, poetry, screenwriting, playwriting, graphic literature/comics, cross-genre, translation, dual genre
Manhattanville College
MFA in Creative Writing
fiction, nonfiction, poetry, screenwriting, cross-genre, graphic literature and comics
New York University
Creative Writing Program
Low-Residency MFA Writers Workshop in Paris
fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction
Pratt Institute
MFA in Writing
fiction, poetry, journalism, translation, image/text
Queens College – CUNY
MFA Creative Writing and Literary Translation
poetry, fiction, nonfiction, literary translation
Sarah Lawrence College
MFA in Writing
fiction, speculative fiction, poetry, nonfiction
St. Francis College
MFA in Creative Writing (low-res)
fiction, poetry, playwriting, screenwriting, writing for children, writing for young adults
St. Joseph’s College Brooklyn
The Writer’s Foundry MFA
fiction, nonfiction
Stony Brook Southampton
MFA in Creative Writing & Literature
fiction, nonfiction, poetry, playwriting, screenwriting, writing for children
Syracuse University
MFA in Creative Writing
fiction, poetry
The College at Brockport – SUNY
MA in English, Creative Writing Concentration
fiction, nonfiction, poetry
The New School
MFA in Creative Writing
fiction, nonfiction, poetry, writing for children, writing for young adults
University at Albany – SUNY
Writing Practices: Poetics, Rhetorics, Technologies :: PhD
poetry, fiction, nonfiction