Saint Mary's MFA in Creative Writing

Saint Mary's MFA in Creative Writing Our two-year, full-residency program combines studio & analytical approaches, offering workshop & cr

The Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing provides the time and formal training serious writers deserve. An intensive two-year graduate program, it takes advantage of the finest qualities of Saint Mary’s College: an interest in the student as a person, an emphasis on shared inquiry and critical thinking, and a respect for new and various ways of knowing. The Program acts as the College’s literar

y center, providing its students unique access to the world of contemporary literature. https://www.stmarys-ca.edu/mfa-in-creative-writing-open-house-happy-hour-2

The Storyboard Residency is almost here — and we’ve opened up many of our events to the wider public. Join us! This summ...
05/28/2026

The Storyboard Residency is almost here — and we’ve opened up many of our events to the wider public. Join us! This summer will be so lit. Scroll through and make your plans for some amazing talks ✨✨✨

The Class of 2026 ✨ all of us here at SMC are so proud of these poets and prose writers. Their talent is immense and wha...
05/20/2026

The Class of 2026 ✨ all of us here at SMC are so proud of these poets and prose writers. Their talent is immense and what a privilege to hear their work last night

Our 2026 Class is outstanding, luminous, inspiring 💫 please join us and bring friends and family to see these stars and ...
05/18/2026

Our 2026 Class is outstanding, luminous, inspiring 💫 please join us and bring friends and family to see these stars and hear the Best Of reading of your life

Congratulations to Fiction Alum .p.lacrampe on his forthcoming novel VALET which will be out from on June 2nd J.P. Lacr...
04/28/2026

Congratulations to Fiction Alum .p.lacrampe on his forthcoming novel VALET which will be out from on June 2nd

J.P. Lacrampe received his MFA in creative writing from Saint Mary’s College. His short fiction has been published by Glimmer Train and McSweeney’s, among many others. He is a teaching professor at Santa Clara University, where he teaches courses in composition, fiction, and screenwriting.

This Wednesday 4/29 our very own will be in conversation with poet Maw Shein Win. Come join us ✨✨ for our last event of...
04/27/2026

This Wednesday 4/29 our very own will be in conversation with poet Maw Shein Win. Come join us ✨✨ for our last event of the season

Maw’s latest collection, Percussing the Thinking Jar, unfolds in dreamlike lines and is accompanied by ink drawings, reflecting on the experiences of living in an aging body, and was shortlisted for the Northern California Book Award.

Maw Shein Win is a Burmese American poet. She served as the inaugural poet laureate of El Cerrito, California and her past collections have been longlisted for the PEN America Open Book Award, and the Golden Poppy Award.

Percussing the Thinking Jar was born out of the pandemic. “At the start of lockdown,” Shein Win has said, “I didn’t go out much. I wrote copious notes in multiple journals. When I returned to what I had written, I realized I was asking questions in these notebooks, creating juxtapositions, and listing instructions. I began to compile what I had written into thought logs, and I set rules for them, for example, each should contain sixteen lines. I continued to work on them as well as other poems.” The Racket said in a rave review: “Win transforms the mundane into exquisite with gentle humor in the face of calamity.”

Student Spotlight ✨Leslie Nguyen-Okwu ✨talked to us about her process, literary lineage, and the art of creating shapes ...
04/25/2026

Student Spotlight ✨Leslie Nguyen-Okwu ✨talked to us about her process, literary lineage, and the art of creating shapes to hold her stories. “I believe that writers are first responders.” Read more at link in our bio

Student Spotlight ✨ Leslie Nguyen-Okwu ✨ talked to us about her process, literary lineage, and the art of creating shape...
04/25/2026

Student Spotlight ✨ Leslie Nguyen-Okwu ✨ talked to us about her process, literary lineage, and the art of creating shapes to hold her stories. “I believe that writers are first responders.” Read more at link in our bio

Congratulations to our Distinguished Visiting Writer on winning the Whiting. Our whole community is celebrating this we...
04/21/2026

Congratulations to our Distinguished Visiting Writer on winning the Whiting. Our whole community is celebrating this well-deserved recognition of his work. Second slide, Carvell in conversation with Yutong Li ().

We are honored, elated to be hosting writer for our next literary afternoon. This Wednesday 4/8/26, from 2:30-3:30 pm a...
04/06/2026

We are honored, elated to be hosting writer for our next literary afternoon. This Wednesday 4/8/26, from 2:30-3:30 pm at Hagerty Lounge in the Saint Mary’s College campus. Carvell Wallace is the author of Another Word For Love, a Kirkus Finalist in Nonfiction and a winner of the PEN Oakland prize. Wallace has written for Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Esquire, and the New Yorker.
Free and open to the public ✨✨

Generative prompt from Sierra Crane Murdoch, whose first book, Yellow Bird, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist To study with ...
03/31/2026

Generative prompt from Sierra Crane Murdoch, whose first book, Yellow Bird, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist

To study with Sierra apply for Storyboard Summer Residency apps due April 1st!

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