A Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in creative writing is an often selective, often two-year degree program that gives writers time to hone their craft under the mentorship of established writers. The ...

USC's School of Dramatic Arts announced Wednesday that its three-year master’s in fine arts programs will now be tuition-free. Starting with the 2024-25 academic year, incoming graduate students, as ...

At 5 p.m. on Nov. 15, 2024 at Buffalo Street Books in downtown Ithaca, Miklos Mattyasovszky and Sam Samakande of the Cornell MFA in Creative Writing program could be seen reciting their fiction and ...

Budding writers often turn to graduate workshops for lessons on the craft and as a gateway to publishers. But in classes filled with middle-class... In Elite MFA Programs, The Challenge Of Writing ...

Recently, in the New Yorker, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Diaz described his experience in his Master of Fine Arts in creative writing program: His first year, he almost dropped out because it ...

For many writers, a contract with one of the major publishing houses is the Holy Grail — and getting accepted to a prestigious Master of Fine Arts program may bring aspiring writers one step closer.

A new group of talented writers has entered the literary world. Earlier this month, the College of Arts and Sciences graduated its first class of Creative Writing MFA students. The low-residency ...

Thanks to a recent gift from Robert “Rob” Silverman, BS ’69, Drexel’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program will be more accessible to the next generation of writers. The MFA program’s work ...

Students graduating with a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Creative Writing earn a minimum of 36 credit hours. The MFA degree requires a minimum of 32 hours of coursework, 4 hours of thesis research ...