UMASS-Boston Creative Writing MFA

UMB MFA Alumni Spotlight: Bob Sykora, class of 2017!

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Website: https://bobsykora.com/

Please join us on Tuesday, April 7 for our first round of Spring 2026 MFA thesis defenses! The event will be held in Wheatley hall, floor 6, room 47 from 10:00am - 12:00 pm. Come and celebrate the work of these talented writers! Refreshments will be served!

For anyone requiring disability-related accommodations, please contact [email protected].

ANNOUNCING: Our second Global Voices event will be held on Tuesday, March 24 and will feature novelist, short story writer, poet, and translator Mary O’Donoghue! Please come by and listen to Mary read from her work!

RESCHEDULED! Our first Spring 2026 Global Voices event will now be held on Tuesday, March 10. Same time and location as before! Please come by and listen to the poetry of Amanda Gunn from the poet herself!

UPCOMING EVENT: The UMass Boston English MFA program will have poet and doctoral candidate Amanda Gunn visiting us on Tuesday, February 24 from 2:30 to 3:30 pm. Please come by and hear the work of an amazing poet!

We are excited to announce our Global Voices events for Spring 2026! In February, we will have poet and doctoral candidate Amanda Gunn visiting us and reading from her work! Then, in March, we will have fiction writer, poet, and translator Mary O’Donoghue visiting us to read from her work! All are welcome!

Amanda Gunn: https://www.amandagunn.com/
Mary O’Donoghue: https://agnionline.bu.edu/about/our-people/authors/mary-odonoghue/

Upcoming: Priority deadline for Fall 2026 MFA applications is February 1! For more information on the program and what to put in your application, check out our most recent Info Session (link in bio).

The priority deadline for MFA applications is coming up soon!Join our lovely writing community!

Interested in pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at UMass Boston next year? Make sure to submit your application before our priority deadline on February 2! We are excited to read your submissions!

For more information on our program, check out our most recent infosession (link in bio).

Interested in pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at UMass Boston next year? Make sure to apply before our priority deadline on February 2, 2026! We are so excited to read your submission!

For more information on our program, please check out our most recent infosession (link in bio).