ST. JOSEPH’S UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK OFFERS LOW-RESIDENCY MFA PROGRAM

July 31, 2025

BROOKLYN, N.Y. – July 31, 2025 – St. Joseph’s University, New York (SJNY) is pleased to announce that the University’s Brooklyn Writers Foundry Creative Writing MFA Program is now offering a low-residency format, creating more opportunities for students who want to take advantage of the literary life in New York City during short residency periods twice a year.

The Brooklyn Writers Foundry is an intimate MFA program that specializes in fiction, nonfiction and poetry. During the one-week residency periods in January and June, students will participate in a lively schedule of daily on-campus classes, readings and lectures with an exceptional roster of core and guest faculty members. For the rest of the year, students receive individualized monthly feedback on their writing from their workshop instructors while participating in virtual discussion-based reading classes. Our program takes two years to complete and boasts a flexible schedule tailored toward the working writer.

Workshops are led by award-winning authors Lee Clay Johnson, Amy Hempel, Alicia Mountain, Andrew Martin, Elisa Gabbert, Laura Kolbe, Jill McCorkle and many more, in one of the most affordable MFA programs in New York City.

Program Director and award-winning author Lee Clay Johnson has recently released his second novel, Bloodline, and is currently on a nationwide book tour. Johnson published his first novel, Nitro Mountain, in 2016 and won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. His fiction and nonfiction works have appeared in County Highway, The Southampton Review, Ploughshares, Lit Hub, Oxford American, The Common, Appalachian Heritage, Salamander, Mississippi Review and more. 

For more information about the program and its low-residency format, visit sjny.edu/MFA. 

ABOUT ST. JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK
St. Joseph’s University, New York has been dedicated to providing a diverse population of students in the New York metropolitan area with an affordable education rooted in the liberal arts tradition since 1916. Independent and coeducational, the University provides a strong academic and value-oriented education at the undergraduate and graduate levels, aiming to prepare each student for a life characterized by integrity, intellectual and spiritual values, social responsibility and service. Through its Brooklyn, Long Island and online campuses, the University offers degrees in more than 100 majors, special course offerings and certificates, affiliated and pre-professional programs.