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Write Your Path. Write Where You Are.

Choose from four concentrations—Fiction (including Young Adult), Creative Nonfiction; Poetry, and Writing for Stage & Screen—and complete your graduate degree in two years. The Queens MFA in Creative Writing has the flexibility that makes our program possible without interrupting your life.

Build your community of writers in a workshop format, or dig deep to break through blocks in a 1:1 tutorial setting. Queens University of Charlotte’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing allows you to customize your program with your program administrator.

You’ll be under the guidance of acclaimed writers such as:

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MFA in Creative Writing—Hone Your Craft

Stretch the creative boundaries of your mind–and your work–in a way you’ve never imagined with Queens University of Charlotte’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. Here, you can write wherever you find inspiration. Our low-residency program offers two week-long residencies in Charlotte each year (or one two-week residency in Latin America). In between those residencies, you’ll complete your coursework remotely in both synchronous and asynchronous arrangements, depending on the course. You’ll build your skills in real-time under the guidance of our award-winning instructors like Ada Limón, the current Poet Laureate of the United States.

  • Intensive residencies with award-winning instructors and fellow writers for two weeks a year
  • A studio arts degree that focuses on practice and craft
  • Immerse yourself in a lifelong community of supportive and inspiring writers
  • Strengthen your network, reignite your creativity, and meet with agents and editors from NY and LA at the Annual Professional Development Weekend For Writers
  • Gain editorial experience working on our literary magazine, Qu, or the Southern Review of Books
  • Take advantage of our Book Development Program and work one-on-one on your book with a top New York editor
  • Immerse yourself in the Latin American writing and culture through our international residencies
  • Post-master's certificate also available
  • Strengthen your critical skills in a workshop format
  • Individualized attention with our 4:1 student-to-faculty ratio
  • Discuss career aspirations and challenges in 1:1 tutorials
  • Benefit from fresh eyes: work with a new instructor each term
  • Choose your residency: Charlotte or Latin America
  • Ada Limon
    • Author of six books of poetry, including “The Carrying,” which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry.
    • Her book “Bright Dead Things” was named a finalist for the National Book Award, a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
    • Currently the Poet Laureate of the United States and a MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Fellow.
  • Jenny Offill
    • Author of three novels, including “The Department of Speculation,” named one of the 10 Best Books of 2014 by the New York Times, and shortlisted for the Pen/Faulkner Award and the L.A. Times Fiction Award.
    • Co-editor of two anthologies: “The Friend Who Got Away” and “Money Changes Everything.”

It’s time to elevate your career and creativity. Fill out the form to learn more about Queens University of Charlotte’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing.

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Our alumni have published 125 books in the last 5 years

70% of alumni have been published in magazines or journals

  • Trish Harnetiaux
    • Her play “Tin Cat Shoes” premiered in 2018 kicking off Clubbed Thumb’s Summerworks (Playwrights Horizons Superlab).
    • Executive producer on the off-beat comedy series “Driver Ed” which premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival.
    • She has been a resident at MacDowell, Yaddo, The Millay Colony, and SPACE at Ryder Farm.
    • Her short film, “You Wouldn’t Understand,” (director/co-writer/producer) was an Official Selection at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, and her recent short, “A Significant Problem,” (director/EP) was part of Dances With Films 2022 and the Florida Film Festival.
  • Hector Tobar
    • Winner of a Pulitzer Prize
    • Author of five books of fiction and nonfiction, published in ten languages, including the New York Times bestseller “Deep Down Dark,” which was adapted into a feature film.
    • Work appears in Best American Short Stories, L.A. Noir, The New Yorker, and The Los Angeles Times, and he is currently a contributing writer for the New York Times opinion pages.
    • He is an associate professor at the University of California, Irvine.