Antioch MFA Program
@antiochmfa
Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing with a social justice mission. We offer degrees in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Writing for Young People, Screenwriting, Playwriting, and Translation. Community, Not Competition!
✨ Our Faculty Friday Spotlight is Benjamin Benne, visiting Playwriting faculty for our December Residency! 🎭 His plays include Alma, In His Hands, and Manning. ✍️ Apply to Antioch’s MFA in Creative Writing at the link in bio. #FacultyFriday #AntiochMFA
✨Join our virtual Antioch MFA Info Session Saturday, August 8th, at 10am PT/1pm ET, with Alistair McCartney. Learn about our residencies, genres, scholarships, and social justice mission! 🔗Register at link in bio. #AntiochMFA #CreativeWriting #MFAProgram
🎙️ On LitCit: Host Gabriela Revilla Lugo chats with award-winning author Reyna Grande about writing across genres, her creative process, and the experiences that shaped her voice. 🎧 Listen at the link in our bio. #ReynaGrande #LitCit #LitCitPodcast #AntiochMFA #LatinxAuthors
📚 Pedagogy + Community = Joy. ✨ 🗓️ Priority app deadline for our @AntiochMFA December 2026 residency is 9/1. After that apps are accepted on a rolling basis. Learn more and apply: buff.ly/B18lipv #MFAProgram #CreativeWritingCommunity
📚 Get a taste of Antioch's MFA Program! ✨ Join Natashia Deón for Creating Romantic Tension on Saturday, August 1. 📝 Explore the craft of writing attraction, chemistry, and emotional tension that feels grounded and believable. 🔗 Register: tr.ee/eKV2MMO9qg
🌊 July Shoutouts from the Antioch MFA Community! ✨ 🎉 Congratulations to our wonderful students, alums, and faculty on their latest accomplishments! 📚 We’re accepting applications for December. Learn more at the link in bio. #AntiochMFA #WritingCommunity
✨ Join us on July 22 at 5pm PT/8pm ET for a virtual MFA Info Session with Alistair McCartney. 📚 Learn about Antioch's low-residency MFA, genres, scholarships, and more. 🔗 Register at link in bio. #AntiochMFA #CreativeWriting #MFA
✨ Here is a look back at just some moments from our June 2026 Antioch MFA Residency. 📚 Moments of creativity and community, pedagogy and joy. 🎓 We are accepting applications for our December Residency. 🔗 Go to the link in our bio to learn how to apply. #AntiochMFA #CreativeWriting #MFA
This week, our Writer Wednesday Spotlight goes to one of our special guest editors for the upcoming December Residency, Hedi El Kholti! Born in Rabat, Morocco, in 1967, Hedi El Kholti moved to Los Angeles in 1992, working in the film industry for five years before earning a BFA degree at Art Center
This week, our Writer Wednesday Spotlight goes to one of our upcoming December Residency guests: Harryette Mullen, Special Guest in Poetry! Harryette Mullen’s latest books are Regaining Unconsciousness (Graywolf, 2025), Open Leaves/poems from earth (Black Sunflowers Poetry Press, 2023), and a
This week, our Mentor Monday Spotlight goes to one of our visiting faculty members in Creative Non-Fiction for the upcoming December Residency, Christine Hyung-Oak Lee! Christine Hyung-Oak Lee is the author of a memoir (TELL ME EVERYTHING YOU DON’T REMEMBER), which was featured in Self magazine,
This week, our Mentor Monday Spotlight goes to one of our visiting faculty members in Dramatic Writing for the upcoming December Residency, Alexandra Chang, Visiting Faculty in Fiction! Alexandra Chang is the author of Days of Distraction and Tomb Sweeping. She is a National Book Foundation 5 under
This week, our Writer Wednesday Spotlight goes to one of our guests for the upcoming December Residency: Bhavani Rao, Special Guest in Screenwriting (Playwriting)! An accomplished entertainment industry expert, Bhavani Rao is a producer, writer, generator, leader, founder, mentor, & storyteller who
This week, our Faculty Friday Spotlight goes to one of our visiting faculty members in Playwriting for the upcoming December Residency, Jesús I. Valles! Jesús I. Valles (they/them) is a queer Mexican immigrant, writer-performer from Cd. Juarez/El Paso. Valles is the winner of the 2023 Yale Drama
We’re so excited to announce the lineup for our December 2025 Antioch MFA residency! We are accepting applications until November 15. Some faculty and guests include Francesca Lia Block (Fiction/Young people), Jack Chang (Young People/Fiction), Jose Hernandez (Alum at Work), and David Bowles
Here is the lineup for our December 2025 Antioch MFA residency! We're accepting applications until December 1. Study Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, YA, Playwriting, Screenwriting, or Translation. Attend the residency in-person at our Culver City campus, or online. Learn more @ link in bio
This week, our Faculty Friday Spotlight goes to one of our faculty members in Poetry for the upcoming December Residency, Safia Elhillo, Visiting Faculty in Poetry. Sudanese by way of Washington D.C., Safia Elhillo is the author of Girls That Never Die, The January Children, Home Is Not a Country,
On Saturday, October 25 at 10 AM PDT, Antioch MFA Program in Los Angeles will be hosting “Inside The MFA”, an online panel of current students discussing their experiences. Register at buff.ly/1VfPK4L. We are accepting applications for December! Scholarships available!
This week, our Mentor Monday Spotlight goes to one of our Faculty members in Dramatic Writing for the upcoming December Residency, Colette Freedman Colette Freedman (dramatic writing teaching faculty) is an internationally produced playwright with over 50 produced plays and musicals.
Core Poetry Faculty Cathy Linh Che's second book of poems, Becoming Ghost (Washington Square Press), has been long-listed for the National Book Award. As Diana Khoi Nguyen writes, "Cathy Linh Che’s poetry vibrates with the rage and ache that accompany revisionist history work.
On this episode of Antioch MFA's LitCit, host Mansi Aneja chats with writer and Antioch nonfiction faculty member Edgar Gomez. Gomez is a queer NicaRican writer born and raised in Florida. He is the author of the memoir High-Risk Homosexual, which was released in 2022 and won the American Book Award
This week, our Mentor Monday Spotlight goes to one of our Faculty members in Creative Non-Fiction & Poetry for the upcoming December Residency, Khadijah Queen. Khadijah Queen is the author of eight books of innovative poetry, hybrid prose, and creative nonfiction. Her memoir, Between the Devil &
This week, our Faculty Friday Spotlight goes to one of our faculty members in Fiction for the upcoming December Residency, Lisa Locascio Nighthawk, program chair in Fiction. Her debut novel, Open Me, was published by Grove Atlantic in 2018. A New York Times Editor’s Choice, Open Me was a
This week, our Faculty Friday Spotlight goes to one of our faculty members in Poetry for the upcoming December Residency, Cathy Linh Che, Core Poetry Faculty! Cathy Linh Che is a writer and multidisciplinary artist. She is the author of Becoming Ghost (Washington Square Press, 2025),
One-on-one attention from faculty mentors. Warm and inclusive creative atmosphere. Community, not competition @antiochmfa. A lifelong community. What are you waiting for? Priority app deadline for our December 2025 residency is 9/1. After that, apps are accepted on a rolling basis.
Commit to your writing practice. Refine your process. Become the writer you already are. Become the writer you want to be. Priority app deadline for our December 2025 residency is 9/1. After that apps are accepted on a rolling basis. Scholarships available. Learn more at link in bio.
Interested in creative writing? Join us this Saturday to get a taste of our MFA Program! We're accepting applications for December! Attend our Post-MFA in the Teaching of Creative Writing Info Session Saturday, August 16th @ 10am PT/1pm ET with Josh Roark, and
August Shoutouts from the Antioch MFA Community. Congratulations! We are accepting applications for December. Learn how to apply to our program at the link in bio.