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Creative Writing (MFA)

MFAMaster of Fine Arts in Creative WritingPartial funding

Overview

A 36-credit MFA in five concentrations: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, arts writing, and writing for children and young adults. Students take writing workshops, reading and practice seminars, the Writer's Life Colloquium, and complete creative and critical theses.

Official program name
Creative Writing (MFA)
Awarded degree
Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing
Source: ww3.newschool.edu · verified October 9, 2026
School
Source: ww3.newschool.edu · verified October 9, 2026
Location
New York, NY
Delivery / residency
Campus-basedClasses and workshops meet in person on campus throughout the program.
Source: ww3.newschool.edu · verified October 9, 2026
Study intensity
Not verified
Duration
Not verified
Required credits
36 credits
Source: ww3.newschool.edu · verified October 9, 2026
Teaching language
English (not separately stated)
Why this degree is listed

The awarded degree is the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing.

Source: ww3.newschool.edu · verified October 9, 2026

We list dedicated creative writing degrees only. Eligibility rules

Curriculum, genres and faculty

Genres

FictionCreative NonfictionPoetry

Source: ww3.newschool.edu · verified October 9, 2026

Concentrations and tracks

Workshops

  • Writing workshops (12 credits), taken within the chosen concentration; one workshop per semester in the first three semesters.
    Source: ww3.newschool.edu · verified October 9, 2026

Craft courses

  • Reading and Practice seminars (12 credits) studying literature from the perspective of the active writer.
    Source: ww3.newschool.edu · verified October 9, 2026

Readings and visiting writers

  • Writer's Life Colloquium (4 credits) of visiting writers, critics, editors, publishers and agents.
    Source: ww3.newschool.edu · verified October 9, 2026

Thesis / dissertation

  • Creative and Critical Thesis (4 credits) and Critical Writing Thesis (4 credits).
    Source: ww3.newschool.edu · verified October 9, 2026

Teaching opportunities

  • WriteOn NYC!, a New School-funded fellowship program, gives MFA students teaching experience in area middle and high schools.
    Source: ww3.newschool.edu · verified October 9, 2026

Faculty listed by the program

  • John Reed — Chair, MFA Creative Writing Program; Associate Professor, Writing Across Media
  • Laura Cronk — Chair of Poetry and Assistant Professor of Writing, poetry
  • Helen Schulman — Chair of Fiction; Professor of Writing, fiction
  • Margaret Rhee — Chair of Arts Writing and Assistant Professor of Writing Across Media
  • Mira Jacob — Director of Nonfiction; Assistant Professor of Writing, creative_nonfiction
  • Caron Levis — Writing for Children and Young Adults Coordinator
  • J. Mae Barizo — Chair of the Undergraduate Creative Writing Program
  • Luis Jaramillo — Associate Professor of Writing
  • Robert Polito — Professor of Writing
  • Larissa Pham — Assistant Professor of Writing Nonfiction, creative_nonfiction
  • Joseph Salvatore — Associate Professor of Writing

As listed on the program's official page on October 9, 2026. Listing does not mean a faculty member is teaching or supervising new students in a given year.

Source: ww3.newschool.edu · verified October 9, 2026

Admissions

Required, optional, waived and not-required items are shown exactly as the school states them. Anything not listed is not verified — not “not required”.

Admission requirements: not verified. We publish this only when the school states it on an official page.

Writing portfolio

Portfolio requirements: not verified. We publish this only when the school states it on an official page.

Tests

GRE and English-language test policy: not verified. We publish this only when the school states it on an official page.

We do not publish acceptance rates or estimate competitiveness: programs rarely publish comparable figures.

Deadlines

Dates are shown with the admissions cycle the school printed. A past date is marked passed and is never carried into a new cycle.

Application deadlines: not verified. We publish this only when the school states it on an official page.

Tuition and fees

Each amount keeps its applicant category, academic year and basis. Per-credit, per-year and whole-program figures are not comparable with each other.
CategoryAmountBasis and year
Continuing students who enrolled before fall 2025, full-time (9-15 credits)From the school's rate table for this level$20,362per semester · 2026-2027Source: catalog.newschool.edu · verified October 9, 2026
Continuing students who enrolled before fall 2025, per creditFrom the school's rate table for this level$2,062per credit · 2026-2027Calculated$74,232 total = 36 credits × $2,062 per credit. Excludes mandatory fees, residency or travel costs, and any rate change during the program.Source: catalog.newschool.edu · verified October 9, 2026

Funding

Some scholarships, assistantships or awards exist for some students; full funding is not stated. “Fully funded” never means every personal expense is covered. How we classify funding

Partial funding

Tuition coverage
More than 90% of new full-time master's students at NSSR receive merit scholarships averaging 49% of tuition.
Source: ww3.newschool.edu · verified October 9, 2026
Other
NSSR lists scholarships, fellowships, assistantships, stipends, federal loans and work-study among available aid.
Source: ww3.newschool.edu · verified October 9, 2026

Sources and verification

Every fact on this page comes from the official pages below. Last verified October 9, 2026.
  1. catalog.newschool.edu/admission-and-financial-aid/tuition-and-fees — Official catalog / bulletin, verified October 9, 2026
  2. ww3.newschool.edu/nssr/admission/ — Official program page, verified October 9, 2026
  3. ww3.newschool.edu/nssr/creative-writing-faculty/ — Official program page, verified October 9, 2026
  4. ww3.newschool.edu/nssr/mfa-creative-writing/ — Official program page, verified October 9, 2026

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