2015 Notifications

If you’re wondering whether applicants have heard back from programs, check out GradCafe. We’d recommend searching for “creative writing,” “fiction” and/or “poetry.”

Where did you apply? Have you heard back from programs? Share below and good luck!

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UPDATED 4/15/15 11:20 PM

If a program hasn’t contacted you by April 15th, it is probably best to shoot them an email. Especially if you are on a waitlist or have any not received any sort of decision.

Programs that have notified so far according to GradCafe results. This does not necessarily mean they are done notifying. Programs are listed in alphabetical order.

• University of Alabama—all genres notified.
• University of Alaska, Fairbanks—acceptances in nonfiction and poetry.
• American University—acceptances in poetry and fiction.
• University of Arizona—all genres notified.
• Arizona State University—acceptances in poetry and rejections in poetry and fiction.
• University of Arkansas—acceptances, rejections and waitlists in fiction.
• Ball State University (MA)—acceptance.
• University of Baltimore—acceptance in fiction.
• Bard College—rejection in poetry.
• Bennington College—acceptances in fiction.
• Boise State—acceptance in fiction.
• Boston University—all genres notified.
• Bowling Green State University—acceptance in fiction.
• University of British Columbia—acceptance in a genre not specified.
• Brooklyn College—all genres notified.
• Brown University—all genres notified.
• California College of the Arts—acceptances in fiction and poetry.
• University of California, Davis—acceptance in poetry.
• California Institute of the Arts—acceptances.
• University of California, Irvine—acceptances in fiction and rejections in fiction.
• University of California, Riverside—acceptances and rejections in fiction and rejections in nonfiction.
• University of California, San Diego—rejections in fiction.
• California State University, Fresno—acceptance in fiction.
• California State University, Long Beach—acceptance in poetry.
• Central Arkansas—acceptance in poetry and a waitlist in fiction.
• University of Central Florida—acceptances in fiction and non fiction and rejections in fiction.
• Chapman University—acceptance in fiction.
• Chatham University—acceptances in fiction and a genre not specified.
• University of Cincinnati (MA)—waitlist in fiction.
• Colorado University Boulder—acceptances in poetry and fiction.
• Colorado State University—acceptances, rejections and waitlists in poetry, acceptance in fiction and rejections in nonfiction.
• Columbia University—acceptances in nonfiction and fiction, rejections in poetry and waitlists in fiction.
• Columbia College Chicago—acceptances in poetry, fiction and nonfiction and rejections in fiction.
• Cornell University—all genres notified.
• Creighton University—acceptance.
• Eastern Washington University—acceptances in fiction and poetry and a waitlist in fiction.
• Emerson College—acceptances in fiction.
• University of Florida—acceptance, rejection and waitlist in fiction.
• Florida Atlantic University—acceptances and rejections in fiction and genres not specified.
• Florida State University—acceptances in fiction and non fiction.
• George Mason University—acceptances in poetry, non-fiction and a genre not specified.
• Georgia College and State University—acceptances in poetry and nonfiction and rejection in fiction.
• Georgia State University—acceptance in poetry and a rejection in fiction.
• Hamline University—acceptance.
• Hollins University—acceptance in fiction and rejection in nonfiction.
• University of Houston—all genres notified.
• Hunter College—all genres notified.
• University of Idaho—acceptance and rejection in poetry and a waitlist in fiction.
• University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign—all genres notified.
• Indiana University—all genres notified.
• University of Iowa—all genres notified.
• Iowa State University—acceptance in fiction.
• Johns Hopkins University—all genres notified.
• University of Kansas—rejection in a genre not specified.
• University of Kentucky—rejection in fiction.
• Kingston University—acceptance in a genre not specified.
• Louisiana State University—acceptances in fiction and poetry and waitlists in fiction and poetry.
• University of Maine—acceptance in genre not specified.
• University of Maryland—acceptances in poetry and fiction and rejections in fiction.
• University of Massachusetts, Amherst—rejections in fiction.
• University of Massachusetts, Boston—acceptances in poetry and fiction.
• McNeese State—all genres notified.
• University of Memphis—acceptances in fiction and nonfiction.
• University of Miami—rejection in fiction.
• Miami University (MA)—acceptance in poetry and waitlist in fiction.
• Michener Center—all genres notified.
• University of Michigan—all genres notified.
• Mills College—acceptance in fiction.
• University of Minnesota—all genres notified.
• Minnesota State University, Mankato—all genres notified.
• University of Missouri-Kansas City—acceptance.
• University of Mississippi—acceptance in poetry and rejections in fiction.
• University of Montana-Missoula—all genres notified.
• Naropa University—acceptance in poetics.
• University of Nevada, Las Vegas—all genres notified.
• University of Nevada, Reno—rejection in a genre not specified.
• University of New Hampshire—acceptance in fiction and nonfiction.
• University of New Mexico—all genres notified.
• New Mexico State University—all genres notified.
• University of New Orleans—acceptance in fiction.
• The New School—acceptances in nonfiction and poetry.
• New Writers Project—all genres notified.
• New York University—al genres notified.
• University of North Carolina, Greensboro—acceptances in poetry and fiction and rejections in fiction.
• University of North Carolina, Wilmington—acceptances in poetry and non fiction, waitlists in fiction, and rejections in fiction and nonfiction.
• Northern Arizona University—acceptances in poetry and fiction.
• Northern Michigan University—rejection in poetry and acceptance in fiction.
• University of Notre Dame—all genres notified.
• Northeast Ohio MFA—acceptance in fiction and a rejection.
• Ohio State University—all genres notified.
• Oklahoma State University—acceptance and waitlist in fiction.
• Old Dominion University—acceptance in fiction.
• University of Oregon—all genres notified.
• Oregon State University—all genres notified.
• Oxford—request for interview in fiction, an acceptance in poetry and a rejection.
• Pratt Institute—waitlists in poetry and fiction.
• University of Pittsburgh—acceptances in nonfiction and a rejections in fiction and a genre not specified.
• Portland State University—acceptances and rejections in fiction, a waitlist in poetry and a rejection in non fiction.
• Purdue University—all genres notified.
• Queens University of Charlotte—acceptance in poetry.
• Rutgers University-Camden—all genres notified.
• Rutgers-Newark University—all genres notified.
• San Diego State University—acceptance in a genre not specified.
• University of San Francisco—acceptances in fiction, nonfiction and poetry.
• San Francisco State University—acceptances in poetry and acceptances and rejections in fiction.
• Sarah Lawrence College—acceptances in fiction, poetry and non fiction and a waitlist in fiction.
• School Of The Art Institute Of Chicago—acceptances in poetry and a genre not specified.
• University of South Carolina—all genres notified.
• Southern Connecticut State University—acceptance in poetry.
• University of South Florida—acceptances in fiction.
• Southern Illinois—acceptances in fiction and a genre not specified and rejections in fiction.
• Stony Brook—acceptances in fiction and poetry.
• Syracuse University—all genres notified.
• Temple University—acceptances in poetry and fiction.
• University of Tennessee-Knoxville—waitlists in non fiction and fiction and a rejection in fiction.
• Texas State University—acceptances and rejections in fiction.
• University of Toronto—acceptance.
• Vanderbilt—all genres notified.
• University of Virginia—all genres notified.
• Virginia Commonwealth University—acceptance in fiction and a waitlist in poetry.
• Virginia Tech—all genres notified.
• University of Washington, Bothell—acceptances in poetry.
• Washington University, St. Louis—all genres notified.
• West Virginia University—all genres notified.
• Western Michigan University—rejection and waitlist in fiction.
• Western Washington University—acceptance.
• Wichita State—rejections and waitlists in fiction.
• University of Wisconsin-Madison—all genres notified.
• University of Wyoming—acceptances in poetry and fiction, rejection in fiction and waitlists in nonfiction and poetry.