Our three-year MFA degree offers tracks in Poetry and Fiction, and all students are fully and equally funded via GTA-ships of more than $25,000 per year. We encourage cross-genre experimentation, offer additional courses in creative nonfiction, playwriting, new media creative writing, and literary editing, and all students have the opportunity to teach creative writing and composition, as well as serve as editors of The New River: A Journal of Digital Art and Literature.
Virginia Tech’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program began in the fall of 2005, and graduated our first full class of students in the spring of 2008. In the years since the program started, we’ve been consistently ranked among the top 30 programs in the country by Poets & Writers in their MFA rankings.
The faculty members in our creative writing program at Virginia Tech are accomplished, prize-winning, innovative, and diverse: Janine Joseph, Matt Salesses, Khadijah Queen, Evan Lavender-Smith, Lucinda Roy, Soham Patel, Sophia Terazawa, and program director Matthew Vollmer.
Our program is small—we admit 4–5 students a year in each genre—and we pride ourselves on the diversity and rigor of our program, our respect for our students’ voices, our financial support for our students, the individual attention students receive from faculty, and our robust Visiting Writers Series.
Our students and alumni are exceptional; they have published books, received prestigious awards and fellowships for their writing, and gone on to further success as writers, teachers, and professionals.
Emily Morrison Prizes in Fiction and Poetry, and other MFA writing awards offered each year.
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