The 2022 Writers Festival—featuring Geoff Dyer, Dana Spiotta, Ishion Hutchinson, Jennifer Moxley, and Andrew Holleran—took place between November 3rd and 5th at Ustler Hall on the UF campus. “Until It Doesn’t,” a story by Roy Udeh-Ubaka (Fiction ’24), was named the winner of the 2022 Gerald Kraak Award for writing and photography of ...

You must apply to the University online through the UF Online Application Portal. The portal will guide you through the process and provide information on the application fee. All applicants should choose Fall as their application term. We do not admit for spring or summer. The application fee is non-refundable.

Although based in the United States, MFA@FLA regards its mission as the promotion of world literature in English. That of our seven faculty four were born outside the United States and are …

MFA@FLA Requirements (2022) The MFA takes three years to complete, and requires 54 credit hours of the following: 4 workshops in genre (fiction or poetry) 3 seminars; 1 forms course; 1 reading tutorial; 3 electives; 12 research/thesis hours; 6 flexible hours (research/ thesis or electives) The thesis; Each of the courses above carries 3 credit ...

MFA students are guaranteed one section of creative writing in both the second and third years. What resources are there, within the department or at UF, for job placement upon completion? The program runs a two-hour job workshop each fall and provides full information about the first jobs of past MFAs.

At UF he co-directs MFA@FLA, the English department’s program in Creative Writing, and is the editor of the literary journal Subtropics. His teaching comprises graduate and upper-level undergraduate fiction workshops and forms courses on such topics as “The Writer as Critic,” “Research and Imaginative Writing,” and “Fiction in Drag ...

Today Gainesville is best known as the hometown of the University of Florida, named in 2018 by US News and World Report as one of the top ten public universities in the United States. With its three hospitals, the city is renowned as a center for medical research and state-of …

For the first year, the appointment for incoming students will consist of mentored teaching (courses team-taught by two incoming graduate students and a senior graduate student) in the University Writing Program.

Prizes include Richard Eberhart Poetry Prize from Florida State University and Graybeal-Gowen Award from Washington and Lee University; Tennessee Williams Scholar at Sewanee Writers’ Conference; Residency at Vermont Studio Center

All MFA@FLA students receive a full tuition waiver and a fellowship and teaching-assistantship package that in 2020 will pay $24,000 per year for each of the three years of the program. Students pay fees of about $750 per semester.