The Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) MFA in Writing Program offers degree tracks in fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry, as well as a secondary concentration in translation.  Established in 1981, the program was one of the first low-residency programs to offer writers the opportunity to earn an MFA degree through study with accomplished authors and teachers without leaving their communities, families, or jobs.  Unlike traditional residential programs, which require you to live elsewhere for two years, ours brings you together with other writers twice each year for intensive 10-day residencies. Because your classmates come from every corner of the United States, the diversity of perspectives, attitudes, and voices is exceptional. After each residency, you return home to complete your semester of self-designed study while working independently under the guidance of a faculty member.

The MFA in Writing Program is housed on the historic Vermont College campus in Montpelier, Vermont. The campus is a five-minute walk from downtown Montpelier, the quaint and architecturally beautiful capital of Vermont.

Hunger Mountain Creative Nonfiction Competition - judged by Nick Flynn, author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoir. $1,000 prize and publication in the Spring, 2009 issue, as well as two honorable mention. Deadline is September 10 - see www.hungermtn.org for details.

2008 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowships Awarded to Robin Hemley, Bob Hicok

Congratulations go out to two writers from the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing Program who have received Guggenheim Foundation Fellowships for 2008.  These include prose faculty Robin Hemley who has published seven books of nonfiction and fiction and is also the director of Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa.  He has taught in the MFA in Writing Program since 1998.  In addition, alumnus Bob Hicok has received a Guggenheim; Bob is the author of four volumes of poetry and is currently an associate professor of creative writing at Virginia Tech.