MFA Program
See writers who attended this programPoetry: David Groff, Rosanna Young Oh, Michelle Yasmine Valladares
Fiction: Salar Abdoh, Lyn Di Iorio, Keith Gandal, Mark Mirsky, Soraya Palmer, Dalia Sofer, Emily Raboteau, Rahna Reiko Rizzuto
Nonfiction: Mikhal Dekel, David Groff, Emily Raboteau, Irvin Weathersby Jr., Yahdon Israel
YA Fiction: Mayra Cuevas
Screenwriting / Drama: Robert Barron, Marc Palmieri
Second-year students may apply to the Teaching Composition Program to teach undergraduates as an adjunct instructor. The English Department offers fellowships and prizes at the annual English Awards Ceremony held in the spring.
The program also offers a track in drama, and coursework in translation, screenwriting, and YA fiction.
This program features a professional series with publishers, editors, and agents. The program hosts the Spotlight on Writers Series; a monthly student-organized reading series, The MFA Reading Series; and the Langston Hughes Festival, in collaboration with the college’s Black Studies Program. The program also offers a weekend Harlem in the Woods: A Nature/Writing Residency at Harriman State Park, sponsored by the Appalachian Mountain Club and the CCNY Outdoor Club. There is also an opportunity to contribute and to take storytelling/archives classes in the Archives as Muse: A Harlem Storytelling Project sponsored by the LUCE Foundation.
The application deadline is February 15 for fall semester start.
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