Postgraduate Study

The 12-credit postgraduate semester is designed for writers who have completed an MFA or PhD degree at any accredited college or university, including VCFA. This semester is ideal for writers who:

want assistance launching a new writing project or feel stalled in their current one;
have a degree in one genre and want to master another, in poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction or writing for children and young adults;
are close to completing a prose or poetry project and need help preparing it for publication;
would like to spend a semester of intense study with a particular member of the VCFA faculty.

The postgraduate semester can be customized to help you accomplish your goals. It allows you five months of concentrated study on your poetry or prose—with a faculty member of your choice—without additional academic requirements. View the postgraduate semester flyer.

Graduates from both the MFA in Writing and MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults programs are eligible for postgraduate semesters in either program.

In addition to Postgraduate Semesters, graduates may apply for a 16-credit Picture Book Intensive Semester, allowing individuals to engage with four other students in forum discussions and academic discourse in addition to one-on-one work with the advisor. View the picture book intensive flyer. VCFA also offers a Postgraduate Writers' Conference every summer.

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