Boise State University

MFA Program

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Program Established: 
1999
Location: 
Boise, ID
Genre: 
Poetry, Fiction
Residency: 
Full
Duration: 
3 Years
Incoming Class Size: 
8
Application Deadline: 
January 15, 2025
Application Fee: 
$65
Website: 
https://www.boisestate.edu/tfcw-cwmfa
Contact E-mail: 
mcsmith@boisestate.edu
Contact Name: 
Martin Corless-Smith
Core Faculty Includes: 

Poetry: Martin Corless-Smith, Sara Nicholson, Taryn Schwilling
Fiction: Mitch Wieland (Director), Anna Caritj
Creative Nonfiction: Chris Violet Eaton, Clyde Moneyhun

Funding/Employment Opportunities: 

The program offers full funding. All students receive a teaching or graduate assistantship position with full tuition waiver, health benefits, and a stipend of $11,450 for each of the three years. All teaching assistantships are in creative writing. Graduate assistantships include opportunities to work with the program’s affiliated small presses.

Affiliated Publications/Publishers: 

Free Poetry, Idaho Review

Other Features: 

BSU has an extraordinary Visiting Writers/Reading series. Semester-long visitors have included: Bhanu Kapil, Joy Williams, Pierre Joris, Denis Johnson, Anthony Doerr, Rick Bass and Forrest Gander. Recent visiting readers have included Alice Notley, Srikanth Reddy, Peter Gizzi, Jennifer Moxley, Cody-Rose Clevidence, Aditi Machado, Dan Beachy-Quick, and Clyde Moneyhun.

Graduates: 

Scot Abels, Erin Belair, Ariel Delgado Dixon, Katie Fuller, Tim Griffith, Cynthia Hand, Al Heathcock, Meghan Kenny, Adrian Kien, Mary Pauline Lowry, Tyler McMahon, Jackie Polzin, JR Walsh, Karena Youtz

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