LOW-RESIDENCY MFA IN CREATIVE WRITING
LOWRESIDENCY MFA IN CREATIVE WRITING
Stetson University’s MFA in Creative Writing is a two-year, low-residency program that specializes in prose, including novels, memoir and the short story, alongside poetry “in the expanded field,” for students interested in cross-genre experimentation in image, sound, installation, video, performance and site-specific making as well as text. The program is anchored at Florida’s beautiful Atlantic Center for the Arts, a prize-winning ecological preserve. Faculty have included text/image collaborators Terri Witek + Cyriaco Lopes, Amaranth Borsuk, translator/poet Urayoán Noel, award-winning fiction/non-fiction author Steven Dunn and Sarah LaBrie, screenwriter and producer for HBO. Graduates go on to live and work as artists and writers, achieving national and international recognition.
[Cyriaco Lopes & Terri Witek, Los Severos, 2023, photographs, ink-jet prints, pencil on paper]
[Cyriaco Lopes & Terri Witek, 2023, ribbons, performance]
[Michelle Pavone, Words Knit in Wire, 2018, needles, wire]
[Savannah Kater, The I Before You, 2019, mixed media]
[Pablo Vindel, grad talk performance, 2019]
WHEREVER YOU ARE. WHATEVER YOU WRITE.
FLORIDA’S ONLY LOW-RES
MFA IN CREATIVE WRITING.
BECOME AN ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE AT THE ATLANTIC CENTER FOR THE ARTS, WITH FACILITIES FOR PAINTING, SCULPTURE, DANCE, MUSIC, AND MORE.
Books
by
Steven Dunn – author, professor, and graduate of Stetson’s MFA program.
From Class of ‘21 to MFA professor:
“This program will honor who you are as a person and an intellectual. It will help you make the things you want to make, and encourage you to make the things you didn’t know you wanted to make or could make.”
- Steven Dunn ‘21, Whiting Award winner
“I’ve been exposed to so many ways of creating I’ve never seen before. From Prose to Poetry to Expanded Field to Visual Arts... I love how exploratory in nature the program is and how the low-residency aspect of the program allows me to continue to make a living for myself, play sports, continue my hobbies, keep up with my creative endeavors, all while getting my Master’s at the same time.”
- Blaze Carter ‘25
“To be able to come here and have professors encourage me to be my most authentic self... rather than push me towards expected literary constraints and notions of what writing is supposed to look like has allowed me to flourish.”
- Bre’Anna Bivens ‘24
