6-week MFA Application Prep Workshop (fiction & nonfiction) – begins 10.13.25

More than 1,000 writers have participated in The MFA Application Prep Workshop and gone on to attend MFA programs nationwide and internationally. The workshop is geared toward helping writers choose and even polish their application writing samples and personal statements, as well as giving writers advice on all aspects of the application process. Writers have two opportunities to share their writing sample pages (up to 6250 words each time) and receive detailed feedback on those samples and on their personal essay. A private conference with the instructor is also included.

Writers have access to our online class platform, Wetink, where the instructor posts weekly craft lessons, as well as informative and encouraging advice on the application process. The platform also includes a class discussion page and a useful line comment tool to use when critiquing your classmates’ work — a perfect way to prep for your future MFA experience.

The class is open to both fiction and nonfiction writers and will help writers through every stage of the MFA application process, all while participating in a supportive group of writers with the same goals.

Keija Parssinen is the author of the novels The Ruins of Us, which earned a Michener-Copernicus award, and The Unraveling of Mercy Louis, which won an Alex Award from the American Library Association and was selected for the Book of the Month club by Emily St. John Mandel. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic online, The New York Review of Books Daily, Gulf Coast, The Southern Review, Puerto del Sol, Slice, Salon, Slate, and in numerous anthologies, and has earned fellowships from MacDowell, Yaddo, and Hedgebrook, among others. A graduate of Princeton University and The Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was a Truman Capote fellow, she is an Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Kenyon College.