Georgia College & State University

MFA Program

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Program Established: 
2002
Location: 
Milledgeville, GA
Genre: 
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Residency: 
Full
Duration: 
3 Years
Incoming Class Size: 
7
Application Deadline: 
February 1, 2024
Application Fee: 
$35
Contact E-mail: 
Contact Name: 
Kerry Neville
Core Faculty Includes: 

Poetry: Kerry James Evans, Laura Newbern
Fiction and Nonfiction: Kerry Neville, Peter Selgin, Chika Unigwe

Funding/Employment Opportunities: 

The program offers full funding (tuition waiver and teaching assistantship with stipend) for at least seven students each year. Self-funded students are accepted under special circumstances. Additional scholarships are given to these students during their second and third years in the program. The program also offers teaching fellowships, graduate assistantships, summer assistantships, Writing Center assistantships, and creative writing assistantships for Peace Corps Fellows.

Affiliated Publications/Publishers: 
Other Features: 

The program hosts a visiting writers series, which brings in six writers to give readings and meet with students each year. Other features include a student reading series and the Writers in the Schools program with Georgia College Early College.

The application deadline to be considered for an MFA assistantship is February 1.

Graduates: 

Danny Bauer, Ashlee Crews, Janet Dale, Emily Lake Hansen, Kristie Johnson, Steve Lavender, Michael McClelland, Miller Oberman, Shawn Parkinson, Daniel Plunkett, Monica Prince, TJ Sandella, Wayne Thomas, Seth Tomko, William Torgerson, Gwendolyn Turnbull, Christopher Varn