The Nation’s Premier Low-Residency MFA Program

Now in its fifth decade, theMFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, established in 1976 by master poet and teacher Ellen Bryant Voigt, continues to set the standard for the innovative model it pioneered. This rigorous and highly-selective four – semester graduate program, with study tracks in fiction and poetry, combines ten-day residencies on campus each January and July with five-month nonresident semesters in which students work individually with the country’s finest fiction writers and poets.

The nationally-recognizedMFA facultyencompass a range of aesthetics, and include Pulitzer and National Book Award winners, national and state poets laureate, and NEA, Guggenheim, Fulbright, and MacArthur fellows. Residency lectures and readings are free and open to the public.

我们多元化和紧密联系的学生来自世界各地，来自不同的学科和职业。艺术硕士项目的校友获得了无数的主要奖项，出版了一千多本书。Application deadlines are March 1 and September 1via Submittable on the MFA program website.

I am grateful for what the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson offers all its students: the knowledge that allows us to become better and more ambitious readers and writers, and the connection to a community of other writers who will help us continue pursuing our interests throughout our lives.

罗斯•麦克拉尼(沃伦•威尔逊文学士，2003;MFA 2010;Beebe Fellow 2010-11)

An Advantage for Undergraduates

Creative Writing majors at the undergraduate level benefit from the opportunity to attend January residency lectures and readings and to work with graduate-student mentors.

每学年，一名艺术硕士教师都会在沃伦·威尔逊校园驻留一周，教授本科生课程，举办研讨会和阅读活动，并与高级创意专业的学生一对一会面。

Also, since 1997, an MFA alumnus has returned for a year’s teaching in the undergraduate creative writing program as the Joan Beebe Teaching Fellow. The Beebe Fellow also leads the “residency class” of undergraduates in January and supervises the literary journal.