Virginia Tech

Blacksburg, VA

https://liberalarts.vt.edu/departments-and-schools/department-of-english/academic-programs/master-of-fine-arts-in-creative-writing.html

School notes

Degrees Offered

MFA

Genres

Fiction, Poetry

Residency type

Full

Financial Aid

All students fully funded through Graduate Teaching Assistantships with annual stipends of $21,000

Teaching opportunities

TAships are available

Editorial opportunities

Students are given the opportunity to help edit two literary journals–The Minnesota Review and The New River: A Journal of Digital Writing and Art.

Cross-genre study

Workshops available in playwriting, creative nonfiction and new media.

Graduates

Anuradha Bhowmik MFA (Poetry) 2018
Weston Cutter MFA (Poetry) 2009
Mirri Glasson-Darling MFA (Fiction) 2019
Alison Hazle MFA (Poetry) 2024
Lauren Jensen-Deegan MFA (Poetry) 2010
Kate Kimball MFA 2010
Amy Long MFA (CNF) 2016

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