Since 1976, when Goddard College launched the nation’s first low-residency Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program, we have provided an enduring creative home for writers like you. Our goal is to help you find, refine, and share your words with the world.

The Master of Fine Arts (MFA) delivers a rigorous, individualized program, with four dynamic degree tracks: Dual-genre, Fiction, Non-fiction, and Poetry. Writing for Stage and Screen coming soon. Check website for updates.

Our two-year MFA in Writing program features intensive 10-day residencies every January and June during which you will participate in workshops focused on examining your personal relationship to language and storytelling and to discovering your original voice as a writer. You will also join our Photography and Visual Arts students to engage in interdisciplinary work across programs.

Steeped in the College's prestigious literary tradition, Bennington's Master of Fine Arts in Writing is consistently named one of the top low-residency programs. Founded in 1994, Bennington's Writing Seminars was one of the first low-residency graduate writing programs in the country. During this two-year, low-residency program, you commit as much to reading as to writing and conceive reading lists that strengthen and broaden your knowledge. You perform critical literary analysis. You craft bold new works of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry inspired by your discoveries. You finish with a...

Special projects in the performing arts through our Metropolitan location include Winter Summer Institute in Applied Theatre and Playwriting Lab publication. Students who study playwriting have the opportunity to have their work showcased by Indie Theatre Now in the SUNY/Empire State College Play Collections.

The Forge Theater Lab is seeking short plays to add to its script library before completing the lineup for its Season 3 event Past Tense, a night of plays connected to the theme of “confronting your past self.” We are interested in reading more 10-30 minute pieces about characters who come face-to-face with their past identities or attitudes, or who struggle to leave the past behind. The Forge Theater Lab is committed to building a diverse, welcoming community of artists. Playwrights of all races, ethnicities, nationalities, religions, genders, sexual orientations, ages, and types of ability...

The Forge Theater Lab, in residence at Fitchburg State University, develops new plays that ignite passionate conversations.

Whether you are looking for one-on-one mentorship to prepare for a career in professional theatre, or looking to integrate your passion for the performing arts with another discipline, the Theatre program at Union College will give you the skills and experience you are looking for. Our professionally-active faculty are dedicated to inspiring and training all students--majors, double majors, minors and enthusiasts alike. We are committed to socially active, community involved, anti-racist approaches to theatre. From the classroom to rehearsal hall to productions on our Yulman stage, we offer...

Students and professionals engage in creative problem solving requiring the setting and meeting of long-term goals and the analysis and understanding of movement, dramatic literature, and arts administration skills. Faculty and students work closely in support of our active programs which includes productions and events that are directed, choreographed, and managed by students, faculty members, and guest artists. These include ten-minute play festivals, faculty dance concerts, full-length plays, student choreographers' concerts and TEDx SUNY Potsdam. *Accreditation: The SUNY Potsdam...

Theatre Program The Theatre Program is committed to fostering an equitable and accessible community for all our students. Our curriculum and production work challenges students to work collaboratively, creatively, and inclusively to solve problems, communicate effectively across mediums, and to acquire the skills necessary to become engaged citizens of a changing world. Students will also acquire proficiency in core theatre knowledge and practice, and embody the self-discipline and work ethic necessary to pursue new and evolving opportunities of a life in the arts.

The Dramaturgy Program is rooted in production work and in learning how to work collaboratively as part of a creative team. Dramaturgy students work on at least one production each year, receiving one-on-one faculty mentoring through each of these production assignments. In addition to hands-on production experience, students learn a variety of approaches to their craft in the weekly Dramaturgy Workshop, where other important dramaturgical skills—including translation, adaptation, playwriting, and critical writing—are nurtured. Rigorous academic work, coupled with this intensive dramaturgical...