Creative Writing MFA

Hone your craft as a fiction writer or poet with the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing in the College of Liberal Arts at Temple University. Develop your individual voice, define your aesthetics, and gain the skills needed to realize your creative vision.

Students in the MFA Program in Creative Writing graduate with a master’s project of publishable quality, written under the guidance of the department’s accomplished faculty members. Through this master's degree program, you’ll also learn how to prepare your work for submission to literary journals, publishers and agents. Graduates have been published by numerous trade and small presses, and their works have earned prestigious grants, prizes and residencies.