2023 Education Guide
NEW ENGLAND
Bay Path University
Degree type: Online MFA in creative nonfiction.
Concentrations: Publishing track, narrative medicine track, and teaching track.
Contact: Bay Path University, 588 Longmeadow St., Longmeadow, MA 01106.
413-788-1233.
Shawn Bernier, assistant director of graduate admissions, sbernier@baypath.edu
Bennington College
Degree type: Low-residency MFA in writing. Concentrations: Fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Contact: Bennington College, One College Dr., Bennington, VT 05201.
802-440-4452.
Boston University
Degree type: MFA in creative writing. MFA in playwriting also available. Concentrations: Fiction and poetry. Contact: Creative Writing Program, 236 Bay State Rd., Boston, MA 02215.
617-353-2510.
Brown University
Degree type: MFA in literary arts. Concentrations: Fiction, poetry, playwriting, screenwriting and nonfiction, or digital/cross-disciplinary writing. Contact: Literary Arts, Box 1923, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912.
401-863-3260.
brown.edu/academics/literary-arts
Emerson College
Degree type: MFA in creative writing; MA in publishing and writing. Concentrations: Literary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Contact: Department of Writing, Literature & Publishing, 120 Boylston St., Boston, MA 02116.
617-824-8610.
emerson.edu/academics/creative-writing-mfa
Fairfield University
Degree type: Low-residency MFA in creative writing.
Concentrations: Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and screenwriting.
Contact: 1073 North Benson Road, Fairfield, CT 06824.
Dr. Carol Ann Davis,
843-814-7159
Goddard College
Degree type: Low-residency MFA in creative writing. Concentrations: Fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction/memoir, dramatic writing (plays, TV, or screenplays), cross-genre/hybrid, or graphic novel. Contact: MFA in Creative Writing Program, 123 Pitkin Rd., Plainfield, VT 05667. David De Lucca, senior admissions counselor,
goddard.edu/academics/master-fine-arts-creative-writing
Lesley University
Degree type: Low-residency MFA in creative writing. Concentrations: Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, writing for young people, writing for graphic novels and comics, and writing for stage and screen. Contact: MFA in Creative Writing, Lesley University, 29 Everett St., Cambridge, MA 02138. Janet Pocorobba, director, 617-349-8332.
lesley.edu/academics/graduate/creative-writing
Simmons College
Degree type: MA in writing for children. Concentrations: Writing for children. Contact: Simmons College, School of Library and Information Science, 300 The Fenway, Boston, MA 02115.
617-521-2000.
Solstice Low-Residency MFA at Lasell University
Degree type: Low-residency MFA in creative writing. Concentrations: Fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, comics and graphic novels, and writing for children and young adults. Contact: Solstice MFA Program, Lasell University, 1844 Commonwealth Ave., Newton, MA 02466. Email from website.
lasell.edu/graduate-studies/academics/mfa-in-creative-writing.html
Southern New Hampshire University
Degree type: Mountainview low-residency MFA in fiction or nonfiction. Concentrations: Fiction and nonfiction. Contact: Southern New Hampshire University, 2500 North River Rd., Manchester, NH 03106.
snhu.edu/campus-majors/graduate/mfa-creative-writing-fiction-nonfiction
Stonecoast
Degree type: Low-residency MFA in creative writing. Concentrations: Fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, scriptwriting, and popular fiction. Contact: University of Southern Maine, Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing, P.O. Box 9300, Portland, ME 04104.
207-780-4423.
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Degree type: MFA in creative writing. Concentrations: Fiction and poetry. Contact: MFA Program for Poets and Writers, Department of English, South College, University of Massachusetts, 150 Hicks Way, Amherst, MA 01003.
