MFA · College Park, MD, USA
University of Maryland MFA in Creative Writing
The MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Maryland is an in-person, studio-based program in fiction or poetry that runs two to three years and ends in a book-length thesis. Students pair workshops with literature courses and gain teaching experience starting in their first spring, help edit the student-run magazine Brack Water, and attend the Writers Here and Now and Stanley Plumly reading series, in a program that names antiracism and social justice as values.
- Deadline: Dec 9, 2026
- Application fee: $75
Teaching assistants receive a stipend of about $28,000 per academic year plus up to 60 credit hours of tuition remission over three years; no separate assistantship application is needed. Incoming class: 6-8.
Program site: english.umd.edu/academic-programs/graduate/creative-writing. Please confirm the details there before you apply.
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