Poetry Programs: Creative Writing Degrees

Creative writing degrees whose official pages name poetry as a genre or track. Verse, prose poetry and poetic sequences. We never assign a genre a program does not name.

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Washington University in St Louis

MFA Program in Creative Writing (The Writing Program)

MFAMaster of Fine Arts in Writing

St. Louis, MO

Campus-based

Fiction · Poetry · Creative Nonfiction

Two years

Fully funded (all admitted)$34,510 stipend (12 months)

$66,850 per academic year · All students — Value of full tuition remission (covered by the A&S Fellowship) · 2025-2026

December 1, 2026 · Fall 2027

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