There are many reasons to write, but one of the most time-honored is this: we have some strong feeling we want to convey. We miss the small red house of our childhood, the smell of our grandmother’s soap, the slant of our father’s handwriting, the perfect meal we had with someone in a seaside town many years ago. We write out of longing, out of memory, out of happiness, out of regret.  But we also know that no one cares about our house, our soap, our father’s script.  No one cares about the oysters we ate in that lost-to-memory seaside town.

We've finished up graduating one class and we are ready for the next!

We'd like to welcome our incoming class with a gathering of returning students, faculty and staff in the beautiful Bertain Redwood Grove on the Saint Mary's campus.  Get to know the newest members of your cohort, ask questions, and begin to familiarize yourself with your new MFA family.

Faculty in creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry will attend and look forward to meeting their newest students and reconnecting with their returning ones. 

We've finished up graduating one class and we are ready for the next! 

We'd like to welcome our incoming class with a gathering of returning students, faculty and staff in the beautiful Bertain Redwood Grove (campus map) on the Saint Mary's campus.  Get to know the newest members of your cohort, ask questions, and begin to familiarize yourself with your new MFA family. 

Register for Jan Term classes that are traveling classes only.