2016 Notifications

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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.