Founded in 1947, the Writing Seminars is the second-oldest creative writing program in the United States and has always been ranked highly in the field. The department is celebrated for the quality of its faculty and its small classes. No course is lecture-sized; all are seminars.
Study at one of the first major academic institutions to offer a degree for writers.
Four poets and four fiction writers are admitted annually to this selective two-year program.
The department is celebrated for the quality of its faculty and its small classes. No course is lecture-sized; all are seminars.
The poems of six graduates of the Writing Seminars’ MFA program have been included in this year’s volume of The Best American Poetry. Poems by Christopher Childers, Armen Davoudian, Gabriella […]
Recent Writing Seminars graduates Gabriella Fee (MFA ’22) and Sophia Berkey (BA ’24) have been awarded 2024 Fulbright grants. Fee has won a Study/Research Award to Italy, where she’ll spend […]
Writing Seminars graduate Taylor Koekkoek (MFA ’15) has been awarded the 2024 Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, for his debut story […]