Sample Texts for VCFA Students

 

MFA in Writing students…

at Vermont College of Fine Arts generally study for four semesters (dual genre students do five) in their chosen field, either fiction, creative nonfiction or poetry. Each semester involves a 10-day intensive residency on the college campus in Montpelier, VT, followed by roughly five months of study with a faculty advisor (usually five students per advisor per semester). Students are required to send their advisor five packets of written material including creative work and critical essays in response to readings. In the third semester, students are required to write a lengthy critical thesis as well as complete their creative work. In the fourth semester, they have to polish their creative work and present it in thesis form and write a lecture for delivery at their final residency. In any given semester, a faculty advisor can have a mix of first, second, third and fourth semester students. Summers VCFA offers an alternative residency in Slovenia for a small group of faculty and students. In the winter, there is a residency in Puerto Rico.

Sample Critical Theses

Sample Grad Lectures