A GUIDE TO CREATIVE WRITING CAREERS WITH AN MFA DEGREE

PEN YOUR FUTURE WITH AN

MFA IN CREATIVE WRITING FROM MOUNT SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY

The two-year, 36-unit MFA in Creative Writing program at Mount Saint Mary's University Los Angeles is a comprehensive artist-training program for students who want to write professionally in the genres of novel, short story, playwriting, poetry, screenplay and non-fiction.

At the Mount, we develop writers in multiple genres, and we believe that you can excel in more than one. We are interested in developing you as a whole writer — an expert who isn't narrow. 

Our integration of the humanities into the course of study reflects our commitment to intellectual rigor and liberal arts as the cornerstone of human understanding. In other words, we pay close attention to your needs as a developing artist, and we ensure that you emerge from the program with the confidence to call yourself a professional writer.

The professors in our program put a premium on helping our students into their professional careers through continued mentoring. This means not only teaching the techniques that make you the best writer you can be, but also preparing you for the publication market. 

Whatever your career path, our job is to help you write stories, novels, plays, poems or screenplays at the highest level – and get them into print or staged before an appreciative public. In that, we are practical minded and the curriculum is set up to get you there.