Welcome to the University of Mississippi MFA in Creative Writing.

The Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing offers advanced poets and fiction writers three years of fully-funded support and community in Oxford, Mississippi, the South’s greatest literary town. We accept four poets and four fiction writers each year, boasting a 3:1 professor-student ratio. Admitted students work closely with our distinguished faculty in intimate and intensive workshops, literature, form, and craft courses, and a thesis year that culminates with a finished, polished manuscript.

Every student that is accepted into our program is fully-funded, with tuition remission, a stipend, and health insurance for all three years, and there are a variety of extra funding and scholarship opportunities available.  Our MFA program has been ranked one of The Atlantic Monthly‘s “Top Five Up and Coming Programs,” and was ranked number 6 in “Top 10 Universities for Aspiring Writers” by College Magazine.

Graduates from our program have been published widely in journals and magazines, and their books have garnered critical acclaim, and been optioned for television. To see recent alumni publications, click here.

Our application deadline is December 15th. Click here for more info.