MFA · Davis, CA, USA
University of California, Davis MFA in Creative Writing
The MFA in Creative Writing at the University of California, Davis is a two-year program in fiction, nonfiction, poetry or hybrid forms. Writers take at least four graduate workshops, including one outside their main genre, and are encouraged to take courses across the university. In the second year they teach Introduction to Creative Writing under faculty supervision and complete a book-length creative work.
- Deadline: Jan 5, 2027
- Funding: Partial / need-based
- 2 years
All admitted students are guaranteed funding in their second year through teaching, including tuition and health-insurance remission and a monthly stipend. First-year funding is more limited and competitive, although the department reports that nearly every incoming student has historically secured at least partial support.
Program site: english.ucdavis.edu/mfa-creative-writing. Please confirm the details there before you apply.
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