Whitworth Writers Workshop

New life for the SPU low-res MFA program, now concluding

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Yesterday, we graduated the penultimate MFA cohort from our longstanding low-residency MFA program at Seattle Pacific University. We will graduate our final cohort at the conclusion of our final residency in August of this year, which also marks our program’s 20th anniversary. We will have awarded 242 MFA degrees, and our students will have published more than 115 books.

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Our program is moving—with some exciting improvements—to Whitworth University in Spokane, Washingtion, with the first cohort showing up for the first residency, slated for January, 2026. Applications are now being accepted online at https://www.whitworth.edu/mfa-in-creative-writing/

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While the some of our faculty (including yers truly) will be stepping away from the program, many of our esteemed mentors will continue to serve our students in this unique program that seeks to encourage and assist students in shaping an accomplished writing life that does not shy away from spiritual concerns, spiritual development.

Currently the mentor lineup looks like so:

2026

First-year Fiction Mentor: David McGlynn

First-year CNF Mentor: TBD

First-year Spiritual Writing Mentor: Mark S. Burrows

First-year Poetry Mentor: Mischa Willett

2027

First-year Fiction Mentor: Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrom

Second-year Fiction Mentor: Gina Ochsner

First-year CNF Mentor: TBD

Second-year CNF Mentor: David McGlynn

First-year Spiritual Writing Mentor: Mark S. Burrows

Second-year Spiritual Writing Mentor: Lauren Winner

First-year Poetry Mentor: Mischa Willett

Second-year Poetry Mentor: Susanna Childress

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Please feel free to contact me with any questions you may have regarding this extremely exciting opportunity.