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 2024 Residency
Faculty
Lisa Locascio Nighthawk
Program Chair
Cathy Linh Che
Poetry Core Faculty
Alistair McCartney
Teaching Faculty
Colette Freedman
Dramatic Writing Program Officer
Genevieve Hudson
Fiction
Tomas Moniz
Fiction
Megan Kamalei Kakimoto
Fiction
Reyna Grande
Fiction
Sarah Van Arsdale
Fiction
Victoria Patterson
Fiction
Terry Wolverton
Fiction
Francesca Lia Block
Fiction
Natashia Deón
Fiction
Chris Belcher
CNF
Anjali Enjeti
CNF
Brad Kessler
CNF
Sharman Apt Russell
CNF
Sarah Manguso
CNF
Nikki Darling
CNF
Jaswinder Bolina
Poetry
Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo
Poetry
Carol Potter
Poetry
Morgan Parker
Poetry and CNF
Rachelle Cruz
Young People
Mike Fu
Translation
Ross Brown
Screenwriting & Playwriting
Joy Kecken
Screenwriting & Playwriting
John Cariani
Playwriting
Josh Roark
Translation
Guests
Maggie Nelson
CNF
Venita Blackburn
Fiction
Claire Dederer
Critic
Gregory Pardlo
Poetry
Eli Horowitz
Screenwriting
Jesús I. Valles
Screenwriting
Kukuwa Ashun
Editor
Niki Herd
Alumni at Work
Jenny Factor
Poetry
Sarah Bowlin
Agent
Henry Lien
Young People
Yuki Tejima
Translation
Ligiah Villalobos
Screenwriting
Rae Dubow
Speaking Coach
Lorinda Toledo
Critical Writing
Danielle Lazarin
Pedagogy
Jennifer Givhan
Speculative Guest
Jessica Elisheva Emerson
Alumni at Work
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