MFA Program
See writers who attended this program
Poetry: Nickole Brown, Tiana Clark, Vievee Francis, Eric Smith
Fiction: Chris Bachelder, Ryan Chapman, Lee Conell, Sidik Fofana, Adrianne Harun, Adam O'Fallon Price, Jamie Quatro
Nonfiction: Emily Adrian, Kelly Grey Carlisle, Virginia Craighill, Jessica Goudeau, Neil Shea, Meera Subramanian, John Jeremiah Sullivan
The Sewanee MFA is primarily a summer-only residency with optional fall and spring online courses.
Students attend a six-week residency each June to July at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. Students are expected to complete the program in three to five summers, after completing a thesis project.
The faculty changes each summer. The program offers tracks in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Merit scholarships are awarded in each genre, and all high school teachers receive a Blake & Bailey Family Fund Scholarships. The School of Letters hosts a lecture and reading series each summer.
Rolling admissions open December 1 and the priority deadline is January 31.
Maggie Blake Bailey, Clay Byars, Dwight Gray, Kay Exley Gunkel, Lindsey Harding, Mina Manchester, Hannah Palmer, Kate Parrish, Amanda Shires, James Swansbrough, Cheryl Whitehead, Kathryn Williams