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MFA in Creative Writing at Queens University of Charlotte

The paradoxical truth about writing is that it demands both solitude-time alone to think and write-and a community of colleagues to sustain that work too.

Committed to forming and sustaining a community of productive writers.

12/01/2025

The Queens MFA program is now on Bookshop.org! We have opened a shop full of faculty, alumni, and student publications! This is a whole new way to engage, support, and deepen your connection with the Queens MFA Community. We are still in the process of adding more publications to this shop and have plans to expand by adding more lists. So stay tuned as we grow our bookshop.

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The link to our bookshop is linked directly in our bio!
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09/12/2025

We are so excited to share another faculty member for the Professional Development Weekend with you! Sally Keith’s fifth collection of poetry, Two of Everything, recently published by Milkweed, uses a collage format to narrate one version of q***r family making, while simultaneously interrogating the potential solace of the lyric. A Guggenheim fellow, Keith has published her poems widely and is a member of the MFA Faculty at George Mason University. A passionate teacher, Sally’s interests range from ecopoetry to ekphrasis to new forms. For more on her new book and teaching you can read a short interview by clicking our linktr.ee in our bio!

Alumni and current students, return to campus in Charlotte, NC to work with incredible industry professionals such as Sally, in our workshops! The link to our alumni website is in our bio, there you will find a full list of faculty, and more. We can wait to see you in October!
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09/04/2025

🚨ALUMNI & CURRENT STUDENTS🚨 Registration for our Professional Development Weekend WORKSHOPS (Or our Industry Pass) closes Sept 24th. That’s less than three weeks to secure a workshop with experienced editors and publishers! Want to join us on campus, but only attend the seminars? No worries! You will be able to continue to register for the PDW Community Pass as late as October 9th. Go to the link in our bio to register.
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08/25/2025

We are so excited to start sharing our faculty for the Professional Development Weekend with you! And who better to start with than Kima Jones? She is a poet at work on her first book, BUTCH, forthcoming Knopf. At Triangle House Literary she is interested in representing literary fiction, essay collections, memoir, hybrid texts, commercial fiction, poetry, speculative fiction, science fiction, and horror. She’s a developmental editor who brings more than a decade of marketing and publicity experience from her work at Jack Jones Literary Arts into her agenting negotiations.

Alumni and current students, return to campus in Charlotte, NC to work with incredible industry professionals such as Kima, in our workshops! The link to our alumni website is in our bio, there you will find a full list of faculty, and more. We can wait to see you in October!
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07/30/2025

📅 AUGUST 12TH, 2025📅
Take the first step toward advancing your writing journey with our MFA or Book Development Program! 📚 ✨ In our free information session, Queens Faculty and Staff will guide you through what makes our low-residency program stand out.

🌟 Learn from the Best: Study alongside award-winning authors, including U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón, Myla Goldberg, Héctor Tobar, Rigoberto González, and Trish Harnetiaux.

📍 Choose Your Residency: Enjoy the flexibility of low-residency study with options to attend in Charlotte, NC, or Latin America.

✍️ Focus on Your Craft: We offer four genres to specialize in—fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and stage & screen—all in a supportive environment with a 4:1 student-to-faculty ratio for highly personalized mentorship.

Ready to take the next step? Register today to join our community of passionate writers! Link in our Bio!

06/27/2025

📅JULY 8, 2025📅
Take the first step toward advancing your writing journey with our MFA or Book Development Program! 📚✨ In our free information session, Queens Faculty and Staff will guide you through what makes our low-residency program stand out.

🌟 Learn from the Best: Study alongside award-winning authors, including U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón, Myla Goldberg, Héctor Tobar, Rigoberto González, and Trish Harnetiaux.

📍 Choose Your Residency: Enjoy the flexibility of low-residency study with options to attend in Charlotte, NC, or Latin America.

✍️ Focus on Your Craft: We offer four genres to specialize in—fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and stage & screen—all in a supportive environment with a 4:1 student-to-faculty ratio for highly personalized mentorship.

Ready to take the next step? Register today to join our community of passionate writers! Link in our Bio!

03/20/2025

🎬✨ Alumni Spotlight: We’re celebrating the incredible achievements of Jennie Jarvis, an accomplished filmmaker and writer whose short film Connection continues to make waves on the global stage!
This powerful and moving film has earned widespread recognition, including two Gold Telly Awards—one honoring their outstanding writing—and has been showcased at over two dozen film festivals worldwide, bringing home 11 awards and 7 nominations.
Most recently, Connection received a nomination for Best COVID Film at the Digital Griffix Film Awards, adding yet another accolade to an already impressive list of honors.
Connection is a grounded science fiction short film that tells the story of a resourceful woman who uses an online dating platform to try to get herself out of a life-threatening situation.
Congratulations to Jennie on this well-deserved success! We can’t wait to see what’s next. 🎥🏆

03/17/2025

☀Beautiful weather here on campus can mean only one thing! Time to crack open a new book. Even better, one written by one of our very own faculty members, Myla Goldberg. Goldberg’s Bee Season has sold over 500,000 copies and was adapted to film in 2005. ☀️

ABOUT BEE SEASON:
Eliza Naumann, a seemingly unremarkable nine-year-old, expects never to fit into her gifted family: her autodidact father, Saul, absorbed in his study of Jewish mysticism; her brother, Aaron, the vessel of his father’s spiritual ambitions; and her brilliant but distant lawyer-mom, Miriam. But when Eliza sweeps her school and district spelling bees in quick succession, Saul takes it as a sign that she is destined for greatness. In this altered reality, Saul inducts her into his hallowed study and lavishes upon her the attention previously reserved for Aaron, who in his displacement embarks upon a lone quest for spiritual fulfillment. When Miriam’s secret life triggers a familial explosion, it is Eliza who must order the chaos.

Myla Goldberg’s keen eye for detail brings Eliza’s journey to three-dimensional life. As she rises from classroom obscurity to the blinding lights and outsized expectations of the National Bee, Eliza’s small pains and large joys are finely wrought and deeply felt.
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02/28/2022

From our friends at Charlotte Center for Literary Arts :

Join Charlotte Lit for a Young Lit Happy Hour to chat about literature and writing as Charlotte Lit's community continues to grow. We will have light snacks and wine/beer for imbibing. Feel free to invite friends, readers and writers that we may not know yet!

Friday, March 18, 5-7 pm
Midwood International and Cultural Center, 1817 Central Ave.
Email [email protected] to RSVP. Proof of vaccination required.

04/02/2021

An interview with Ada Limón, whose first book of poetry, ‘Lucky Wreck,’ is being republished in celebration of its 15th anniversary.

01/28/2021

Get your copy of Qu, now available for order from Park Road Books! While you’re there, take a moment to browse their wide selection. You just might find the next book for your list!

https://www.parkroadbooks.com/order-queens-university-winter-2021-literary-magazine

Cover art by: Tina Alberni

01/11/2021

Welcome to all the Queens MFA students joining the spring 2021 virtual residency today! It's a sunny day here in Charlotte, and while we'll miss seeing you all around campus this week, we're excited to work with you on the next issue this term. Happy writing!

Only 5 days left to make your fiction, nonfiction, and poetry submissions! http://www.qulitmag.com/submit/

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