An independent directory of dedicated creative writing degrees in the United States
Dedicated creative writing degrees (BFA, BA, MFA and PhD) offered by schools in undefined. English degrees with a creative writing concentration are not listed.
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Listed alphabetically by school. This directory is not a ranking — editorial selections are published separately under Rankings. What we list
Salt Lake City, UTPublic
The University of Utah Department of English runs a Creative Writing Program that offers an English MFA in creative writing, including a modular track with emphases in Environmental Humanities, the American West, or Book Arts. Graduate students staff the journals Quarterly West and Western Humanities Review. The department's creative writing PhD is an English PhD with a creative writing specialization.
Charlottesville, VAPublic
The Creative Writing Program at the University of Virginia offers a three-year MFA in Creative Writing in poetry and fiction, admitting four poets and four fiction writers each year, with an option to graduate in two years. All students receive the same fellowship and teaching support along with tuition, fees and health insurance coverage. Undergraduate creative writing is offered as concentrations within the English major and as a minor.
Seattle, WAPublic
The University of Washington's Creative Writing Program in the Department of English offers a two-year MFA in Creative Writing in poetry or prose on the Seattle campus; undergraduates study creative writing as a concentration within the BA in English. The program states that all admitted MFA students receive a funding package.
Madison, WIPublic
The Program in Creative Writing in UW-Madison's Department of English offers a two-year MFA in fiction and poetry that admits about six students a year, alternating genres by year, and runs the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing post-graduate fellowships. Undergraduates can take an English major with an emphasis in creative writing.
Nashville, TNPrivate nonprofit
Vanderbilt's Department of English offers a three-year MFA in Creative Writing in fiction or poetry, enrolling six students a year. Undergraduates study creative writing as a concentration within the English major or as a minor.
Montpelier, VTPrivate nonprofit
Vermont College of Fine Arts offers two low-residency writing MFAs, the MFA in Writing and the MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults. Residencies now take place on the CalArts campus in Valencia, California, while the administrative office remains in Vermont; students may attend residencies in person or remotely.
Richmond, VAPublic
Virginia Commonwealth University's Department of English offers a 48-credit, three-year MFA in Creative Writing with concentrations in fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. The program publishes the online journal Blackbird and coordinates national literary awards such as the Cabell First Novelist Award and the Levis Reading Prize.
Swannanoa, NCPrivate nonprofit
Warren Wilson College runs the MFA Program for Writers, a low-residency Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing established in 1976 with study tracks in poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction. The college also offers an undergraduate Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing.
St. Louis, MOPrivate nonprofit
Washington University in St. Louis's Department of English runs a two-year MFA in Writing in fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction. All students are funded through an Arts & Sciences Fellowship with full tuition remission and a 12-month stipend, and teach introductory creative writing in their second year. Undergraduates can pursue a creative writing specialization within the English major.