MFA in Writing Archive

VCFA will hold its annual Writing Programs online auction May 13-26, and we are now soliciting donations.

MFA in Writing alum Alexandra Chasin (’02) will hold a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation in 2020, in support of the research and...

Join us for various events and sessions throughout the conference!

Hasanthika Sirisena’s work has been anthologized in This is the Place (Seal Press, 2017), in Every Day People: The Color of Life (Atria...

Adam McOmber is the author of three novels, The White Forest (Touchstone), Jesus and John (Lethe), and The Ghost Finders ...

Harrison Candelaria Fletcher is the author of Finding Querencia: Essays from In-Between, as well as Presentimiento: A Life in Dreams ...

Miciah Bay Gault is the author of the novel Goodnight Stranger (Park Row Books, 2019), which was a finalist for the Shirley Jackson...

Barbara Hurd is the author of The Epilogues (Standing Stone Books, 2021); Listening to the Savage / River Notes and Half-Heard Melodies...

Bret Lott is the bestselling author of fourteen books, most recently the nonfiction collection Letters and Life: On Being a Writer, ...

Patricia Smith, winner of the 2021 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, is the author of eight books of poetry, including Incendiary Art (Northwestern University...