Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA
Hybrid work encouraged, students work in multiple genres
Degrees Offered
MFA
Genres
Fiction, Poetry
Residency type
Full
Financial Aid
All students fully funded through Graduate Teaching Assistantships with annual stipends of $21,000
Teaching opportunities
TAships are available
Editorial opportunities
Students are given the opportunity to help edit two literary journals–The Minnesota Review and The New River: A Journal of Digital Writing and Art.
Cross-genre study
Workshops available in playwriting, creative nonfiction and new media.
Graduates
- Anuradha Bhowmik MFA (Poetry) 2018
- Weston Cutter MFA (Poetry) 2009
- Mirri Glasson-Darling MFA (Fiction) 2019
- Alison Hazle MFA (Poetry) 2024
- Lauren Jensen-Deegan MFA (Poetry) 2010
- Kate Kimball MFA 2010
- Amy Long MFA (CNF) 2016
Send questions, comments and corrections to info@creativewritingmfa.info.
Disclaimer: No endorsement of these ratings should be implied by the writers and writing programs listed on this site, or by the editors and publishers of Best American Short Stories, Best American Essays, Best American Poetry, The O. Henry Prize Stories and The Pushcart Prize Anthology.