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*

Start this Summer

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!