University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s fiction MFA is a fully-funded, three year program. It also has one of the nation’s highest stipends with $25,000 the first year and a minimum of $26,900 in the second and third years.
This year, UIUC has hired award-winning poet Marianne Chen to a faculty including bestselling authors Gabriela Garcia and David Wright Faladé. Their Robert J. Carr Reading Series and the new Kaplan Writer-in-Residence series in recent years has included Susan Choi, Dave Eggers, Roxane Gay, Tyehimba Jess, and Carmen Maria Machado.
Students interested in applying can learn more here. Application for fiction are due by December 1st, and December 15th for poetry.
