MFA in Creative Writing
Residency
Residency Overview
As part of the MFA in Creative Writing, students attend five, 10-day, hybrid residencies, online or at Antioch University’s Los Angeles campus in Culver City, California, where they form a collective of working writers. The residency builds a strong literary community around engagement with language, literature, and social and aesthetic issues that working writers confront.
During each residency, students in the MFA in Creative Writing program participate in an assigned creative writing workshop and attend at least seven additional learning activities, such as faculty/guest seminars and graduating student presentations.
Seminars
Some of these learning activities are listed below; required seminars are denoted by an asterisk (*).
- Arts, Culture, and Society I & II*
- Art of Translation Seminar*
- Critical Paper Seminar*
- Faculty and Guest Seminars on Craft, Aesthetics, Dramatic Writing, and Critical Reading
- Genre Studies
- Graduating Student Presentation *
- Graduating Student Reading *
- Orientations*
- Orientation to the Field Study *
- Reading Like a Writer*
- Teaching of Creative Writing
- Writers at Work Sessions
- Writing Workshops*
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The deadline to apply and participate in this life-changing residency is approaching quickly. Apply now to join our program and learn with this amazing group!
December 2025 Residency
Faculty

Lisa Locascio Nighthawk
Program Chair

Cathy Linh Che
Poetry Core Faculty

Alistair McCartney
Teaching Faculty

Colette Freedman
Teaching Faculty

Francesca Lia Block
Fiction/Young People

Alexandra Chang
Fiction

Jack Cheng
Young People/Fiction

Natashia Deón
Fiction

Reyna Grande
Fiction/CNF

Tomas Moniz
Fiction

Victoria Patterson
Fiction

Nikki Darling
CNF

Edgar Gomez
CNF

Christine Hyung-Oak Lee
CNF

Brad Kessler
CNF

Khadijah Queen
CNF/Poetry

Terry Wolverton
CNF/Fiction

Piotr Florczyk
Poetry

Michelle Peñaloza
Poetry

Stacey Waite
Poetry/CNF

Safia Elhillo
Poetry

Joy Kecken
Screenwriting/Playwriting

Ross Brown
Screenwriting/Playwriting

John Cariani
Playwriting

Jesús I. Valles
Playwriting

Mike Fu
Translation

Josh Roark
Post-MFA Teaching Certificate
Guests

Rita Bullwinkel
Fiction

Bhavani Rao
Screenwriting

Benjamin Benne
Playwriting

David Bowles
Speculative

Jose Hernandez Diaz
Alum at Work

Kirby Kim
Agent

Diana Arterian
Translation

Hedi El Kholti
Editor

Tananarive Due
Screenwriting

Max Delsohn
Debut Fiction

Sarah Schulman
Arts, Culture & Society

Marion Dane Bauer
Young People

Rachelle Cruz
Pedagogy/Values, Community & Creativity

Manjula Martin
CNF

Ellie Eberlee
Criticism

Rae Dubow
Speaking Coach

Lorinda Toledo
Critical Writing

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