Yes, it’s that time of year again already. Buckle up!
If you’re wondering whether applicants have heard back from programs, check out GradCafe. We recommend searching for “creative writing,” “fiction” and/or “poetry.” We cannot guarantee the below data from GradCafe is 100 percent accurate.
Please let us know if a program is still notifying applicants.
Where did you apply? Have you heard back from programs? Share below and good luck!
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Updated 4/18/16 7:18 PM
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: most genres notified.
- University of Alaska-Fairbanks: acceptances in poetry and fiction.
- American University: acceptance in fiction.
- Antioch College: acceptance in poetry.
- University of Arizona (Tucson): all genres notified.
- Arizona State University: all genres notified.
- University of Arkansas: rejections, acceptances and waitlists in fiction and acceptance and waitlists in poetry.
- University of Baltimore: acceptances in fiction and poetry.
- Bennington College: acceptance in fiction.
- Boise State: all genres notified.
- Boston University: all genres notified.
- Bowling Green State University: acceptances in poetry and fiction.
- Brooklyn College: acceptances in poetry and rejections and waitlists in fiction.
- Brown University: all genres notified.
- University of British Columbia: rejections in fiction and creative non-fiction.
- Butler University: acceptances in poetry and fiction.
- California Institute of the Arts: acceptances in fiction.
- University of California, Davis: acceptance in fiction.
- University of California, Irvine: offers supposedly made.
- University of California, Riverside: most genres notified.
- University of California, San Diego: rejections and a waitlist in fiction.
- California State University, Long Beach: acceptances in fiction and poetry.
- California State University, San Jose: acceptance in poetry.
- University of Central Florida: acceptances in poetry.
- Chapman University: acceptances in creative non-fiction and fiction.
- Chatham University: acceptances and rejections in fiction.
- University of Colorado-Boulder: acceptance in fiction.
- Colorado State University: acceptances and rejections in fiction.
- Columbia College Chicago: acceptances in fiction and poetry.
- Columbia University: acceptances in creative non-fiction, fiction and poetry.
- Cornell University: all genres notified.
- University of East Anglia: acceptance in poetry.
- Eastern Washington University: acceptance in creative non-fiction and fiction.
- Emerson College: acceptances in fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction.
- University of Florida: rejections in fiction.
- Florida Atlantic University: acceptances in creative non-fiction and fiction.
- Florida International University: acceptance in creative non-fiction.
- Florida State University: acceptance in poetry.
- George Mason University: acceptances in creative non-fiction, poetry and fiction.
- Georgia College and State University: acceptances in creative non-fiction and poetry and a rejection in fiction.
- Georgia State University: acceptances in poetry.
- Guelph-Humber (Toronto): acceptances in poetry and creative non-fiction.
- Hollins University: acceptances in creative non-fiction and fiction, waitlists in fiction and rejections in poetry.
- University of Houston: most genres notified (check online portal).
- Hunter College: acceptance in creative non-fiction and rejections in fiction.
- University of Idaho: acceptances in fiction and a rejection in poetry.
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: all genres notified.
- Indiana University: all genres notified.
- Institute of American Indian Arts: acceptance in poetry.
- University of Iowa: acceptance in creative non-fiction.
- Iowa State University: acceptance in fiction.
- Iowa Writer’s Workshop: all genres notified.
- Johns Hopkins University: all genres notified.
- Kansas University: acceptance in fiction.
- University of Kentucky: acceptance in fiction.
- Louisiana State University: all genres notified.
- Ohio State University: all genres notified.
- Oklahoma State University: acceptance in creative non-fiction.
- University of Oregon: acceptance in fiction.
- Oregon State University: acceptance and waitlists in fiction.
- Manhattanville College: acceptance in poetry.
- University of Maryland: acceptances in fiction.
- University of Massachusetts Amherst: acceptances in fiction and in poetry and rejections in fiction.
- University of Massachusetts Boston: acceptances and waitlists in fiction.
- McNeese State University: all genres notified.
- University of Miami: acceptances in poetry.
- Miami University: acceptance.
- University of Michigan: all genres notified.
- Mills College: acceptances in fiction and poetry.
- The University of Minnesota: all genres notified.
- Minnesota State University-Mankato: acceptances and waitlist in fiction and in creative non-fiction.
- University of Missouri-Kansas City: acceptance.
- University of Missouri-St. Louis: acceptance in poetry.
- University of Mississippi: acceptance in poetry and waitlist in fiction.
- University of Montana-Missoula: acceptances in creative-non fiction and fiction and rejection in creative non-fiction.
- Naropa University: acceptance in poetry.
- NEOMFA: acceptance in poetry.
- University of Nevada, Reno: acceptance, and rejection in fiction.
- University of New Hampshire: acceptances in poetry.
- University of New Mexico: acceptances and waitlists in fiction and an acceptance in creative non-fiction.
- New Mexico State University: rejections in fiction and an acceptance in poetry.
- University of New Orleans: acceptances in fiction and poetry and a waitlist in fiction.
- The New School: acceptances in poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction and a waitlist in fiction.
- New Writers Project: all genres notified.
- New York University: all genres notified.
- University of North Carolina at Greensboro: acceptances and rejections in fiction and an acceptance in poetry.
- University of North Carolina at Wilmington: acceptances and waitlists in fiction and poetry.
- North Carolina State University: acceptance in fiction and waitlists in poetry.
- Northern Arizona University: acceptances in poetry and fiction.
- Northern Michigan University: acceptances in fiction and poetry and a rejection in poetry.
- University of Notre Dame: all genres notified.
- Old Dominion University: rejection in poetry and acceptance in fiction.
- University of Oregon: all genres notified.
- Oregon State University: acceptances, rejections and waitlists in poetry, creative non-fiction and fiction.
- Otis College of Art and Design: acceptance.
- Oxford University: interview notification.
- Pacific University: acceptance in fiction.
- Pacific Lutheran University: acceptance in poetry.
- University of Pittsburgh: acceptances in creative non-fiction, fiction and poetry and rejections in creative-non fiction, fiction and poetry.
- Portland State University: acceptances and waitlists in fiction and poetry, and rejections in fiction and creative non-fiction.
- Pratt Institute: acceptances in poetry and rejection in fiction.
- Purdue University: most genres notified.
- Rainier Writing Workshop: acceptance in creative non-fiction.
- Rutgers University-Camden: acceptances in fiction and creative non-fiction.
- Rutgers University-Newark: acceptances in fiction and poetry and a waitlist in fiction.
- San Diego State University: acceptances in fiction and poetry.
- University of San Francisco: acceptances in poetry.
- San Francisco State University: acceptance in poetry.
- Sarah Lawrence: acceptances in creative non-fiction and fiction.
- School of the Art Institute of Chicago: acceptance in fiction.
- SIUC: waitlist in fiction.
- The University of South Carolina-Columbia: acceptances and rejections in fiction.
- University of South Florida: acceptances in poetry and in creative non-fiction and waitlists in fiction and poetry.
- San Jose State University: acceptance in fiction.
- Saint Marys College of California: acceptances in fiction and poetry.
- Southern Illinois University Carbondale: acceptance in poetry and rejection in fiction.
- University of St. Andrews: acceptance in fiction.
- Stony Brook Southampton: acceptances in fiction and poetry and a rejection in fiction.
- Syracuse University: all genres notified.
- Temple University: acceptances and rejections in fiction and poetry.
- University of Texas at Austin—Michener Center: all genres notified.
- Texas State University: acceptances and waitlists in fiction.
- University of Utah: acceptance in poetry.
- Vanderbilt University: all genres notified.
- Vermont College of Fine Arts: acceptances in poetry.
- University of Virginia: all genres notified.
- Virginia Commonwealth University: acceptances, waitlists and rejections in poetry.
- Virginia Tech: all genres notified.
- University of Washington: acceptances and waitlists in fiction.
- University of Washington Bothell: rejection in fiction.
- Washington University in St. Louis: all genres notified.
- West Virginia University: most genres notified (rejection letters being mailed).
- Western Kentucky University: acceptances in poetry and fiction.
- Western Michigan University: acceptances in poetry and waitlists in fiction and poetry.
- Western Washington University: acceptances and waitlists in fiction
- Wichita State University: acceptance in fiction.
- William Paterson University: acceptance.
- University of Wisconsin-Madison: all genres notified.
- University of Wyoming: all genres notified.