MFA
Fiction, Poetry, CNF, Drama, Screenwriting
Full
44 semester hours
Yes
Applicants will be considered for a graduate Steinbeck Fellowship was provides full in-state tuition support for the first year. All applicants will be considered on the basis of their application materials. Six fellowships are available.
MFA students have the opportunity to apply for teaching associate positions in the English Department in their second year. Teaching associates are limited to taking two courses (6 semester-units) while teaching one or two sections of lower-division General Education courses, usually Freshman Composition. Teaching associates receive, in addition to a modest salary, a 6-unit fee waiver.
Students may work on Reed, one of the oldest literary jourals west of the Mississippi.
The MFA program at SJSU is a dual-genre program that provides concentrations in fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and playwriting/screenwriting. Students must declare a primary and a secondary genre to apply for admission.
Send questions, comments and corrections to info@creativewritingmfa.info.
Disclaimer: No endorsement of these ratings should be implied by the writers and writing programs listed on this site, or by the editors and publishers of Best American Short Stories, Best American Essays, Best American Poetry, The O. Henry Prize Stories and The Pushcart Prize Anthology.