CCNY MFA in Creative Writing

Prof. Salar Abdoh’s latest:

The War Within • EQUATOR The Islamic Republic, fearing for its own survival, presides over a bloodbath

The Irish novelist discovered the Hungarian writer two decades ago, and was excited by the verbal pyrotechnics of a rule-breaking storyteller

Artists Plan Nationwide Protests Against ‘Authoritarian Forces’ The visual artist Dread Scott, the playwright Lynn Nottage and others have organized a series of actions to unite the arts community against the Trump administration.

Essay contest for CCNY students! Take note.

2025 Dr. K. York & M. Noelle Chynn CUNY Ethics and Morality Essay Contest – Asian American / Asian Research Institute 2025 Dr. K. York & M. Noelle Chynn CUNY Ethics and Morality Essay Contest November 7, 2025 By AAARI Funded by the Chynn Family Foundation Submission Deadline Friday, November 7, 2025 The CUNY Ethics and Morality Essay Contest is funded by an endowment gift of $100,000 to the City University of New Y...

The MFA program is delighted to host our our next Chai and Chat reading. Professor Salar Abdoh will be in conversation with Mendik Guest Professor Irvin Weathersby, Jr. on his new book, In Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space.

This will also be a prospective student event and those who are interested in attending our program can meet with the MFA director following the reading.

A new environmental essay by MFA faculty, Prof. Emily Raboteau for Climate Week NYC:

Among The Ruins | Broadcast Heat won't show up in family photos, but its quiet violence is felt beyond the frame.

James Patterson to Award $500,000 in Grants to Emerging Writers The author has awarded grants of up to $50,000 to 12 writers with the aim of allowing them to dedicate the time and resources needed to complete their manuscripts, in partnership with a number of literary organizations.

An essay on living with long Covid by alum Jessie Chaffee.

A Single Ray of Light: On Ray Bradbury’s “All Summer in a Day” and Living in the Shadow of Long COVID “My first well Day—since many ill— I asked to go abroad, And take the Sunshine in my hands, And see the things in Pod—” —Emily Dickinson, 574 * When I was a child, I spent many long afternoons at J…

Fellowships available.

Under The Volcano A Guided Writing Residency