The Rutgers-Newark Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing will begin accepting applications for our Fall 2010 class in Fiction and Poetry on November 15, 2009 (please see How To Apply). We will notify applicants of acceptance by April 20, 2010.

Our MFA Program, located on the most richly diverse undergraduate campus in the nation, a mere PATH train ride from Manhattan, is both cutting edge and deeply important. Literature comprises the consciousness and conscience of a culture, and our MFA for the 21st Century is designed to nurture many voices. Read published examples of faculty and student work at our new link: Many Voices: RN MFA

Our Writing Faculty in Fiction includes novelist, short story writer and MFA Director Jayne Anne Phillips, novelist Tayari Jones, and short story writer and Rutgers-Newark Writer in Residence Alice Elliott Dark (In The Gloaming). Our Poetry faculty are distinguished poet and translator Rachel Hadas and Rigoberto González. M.F. Steinhardt Visiting Writers for 2009-2010 are Jaime Manrique and Paul Lisicky. Our accomplished Nonfiction faculty are Pulitzer Prize finalist James Goodman, Vietnam and science fiction specialist H. Bruce Franklin, and jazz pianist and author Lewis Porter, offer courses or workshops to our Fiction and Poetry students.  The visiting authors who comprise our Writers at Newark Reading Series do MFA-only Q&A's; the Series is reflected in our MFA only Writers at Newark: Contemporary American Lit courses and in our community outreach to Newark high school writers.

We congratulate our May '09 graduating class, which includes a Stegner Fellow in Fiction and talented students whose work has already appeared in prominent publications, including Granta Young Voices, The Paris Review, Narrative, and McSweeney's.  We offer a variety of financial aid, including Teaching Assistantships, Part Time Lectureships, and Half-Tuition Scholarships.

We invite you, writers from diverse backgrounds and cultures, students whose
excellence as writers will enrich Rutgers-Newark and the Newark community,
to join us in this unique program. Please peruse our ideas, and apply by January 5, 2010, in order to be considered for financial aid. We encourage you to apply with a strong, competitive manuscript and the dedication required by your craft and your calling.