MFA · Southampton and New York, NY, USA
Stony Brook University MFA in Creative Writing
The MFA in Creative Writing at Stony Brook University holds classes in Southampton and Manhattan, with a summer Southampton Writers Conference and weekend intensives. Students are not tracked by genre and work across fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction, with television and film writing in Manhattan. Practica in publishing, teaching, and arts administration, plus the magazine TSR: The Southampton Review, serve writers with full-time jobs and lives.
- Deadline: Dec 15, 2026
- Funding: Partial / need-based
- 2.5 years
Tuition totals about $28,000 for New York residents and $56,000 for non-residents. Competitive full lines carry a $30,000 stipend and full tuition waiver, and half lines a $15,000 stipend and 50% tuition scholarship. Incoming class: 15-25.
Program site: stonybrook.edu/creative-writing-film-television-new/graduate/mfa-cwl. Please confirm the details there before you apply.
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