MFA in Creative Writing

The low residency Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program is a 48 credit, rigorous, student-centered program for writers who chose to live their lives and hone their writing skills at the same time. The four-semester program combines a low-residency model in which students can immerse themselves in craft, literature, critique and practicalities, experiment with different genres and commune with prominent visiting writers, professionals, and faculty for eight days at the start of each residency, with one-on-one mentoring during the rest of the semester. The low residency MFA in Creative Writing Program is ideal for people with commitments to family, work or other personal obligations, or for people who simply want to improve their writing in the way that most writers end up working: on their own.

The low residency MFA in Creative Writing Program offers diversity on many levels. Diversity through a distinguished, award-winning faculty that offers a wide range of specialties and life experiences. Diversity in genre and style, allowing students to study poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, memoir, playwriting, screenwriting and cross-genre. Goddard developed the original model for low-residency Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing programs, and continues this tradition by fine-tuning an academically rigorous and student-centered program in which writers can pursue their interests in an environment that offers “safe harbor” and “intellectual freedom”.  Goddard College was established in 1938 as a progressive, experimental institution and it still strives to push the boundaries of education through its low residency MFA in Creative Writing Program.