MFA Program
See writers who attended this program
Poetry: Carol Ann Davis, Celeste Doaks, Ellen Dore Watson, Bill Patrick,
Fiction: Rachel Basch, Susan Muaddi Darraj, Eugenia Kim, Phil Klay, Karen Osborn, Matt Gallagher
Nonfiction: Sonya Huber, Phil Klay, Adriana Páramo, Bill Patrick
Screenwriting: Sharbari Ahmed, Kate Clark, Jennifer Vanderbes
The program offers graduate assistantships, grants, scholarships, work-study opportunities, and internships.
The program also offers degrees in playwriting and screenwriting, as well as a cross-genre class in story mapping. Concentrations are offered in publishing and editing, spiritual writing, and literary health and healing.
Students attend two nine-day residencies each year, in July and December, on Enders Island, off the coast of Mystic, Connecticut.
Prior Learning Credit toward the degree is offered for applicants with significant publications.
The program offers pedagogy development and teaching assistantship positions at the Fairfield University Writing Center; internships at the literary magazines Brevity, Causeway Lit, and Dogwood; and internships with faculty members who run small presses.
The program awards the biennial Alumni Book Prize, open only to current students and alumni; the winner receives $1,000 and a publishing contract with New Rivers Press.
The priority application deadline is October 15 for the December residency and April 15 for the July residency.
Chris Belden, David Fitzpatrick, Colin Halloran, Deb Henry, Elizabeth Hilts, Annabelle Moseley, Sally Nacker, A. J. O’Connell