Hunter MFA Creative Writing

04/28/2026

Don’t miss Cheryl Strayed this Thursday, as she ends Hunter’s Distinguished Writers Series! Open to all, please RSVP with link in bio.
📍Kaye Playhouse (68th St. Campus)
930 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10065 United States

02/24/2026

Join us TOMORROW at 6:30 pm at The Roosevelt House, link in bio to RSVP.

02/20/2026

This Wednesday, 2/25, join us at the Roosevelt House with the incredible Susan Choi. Please RSVP!

11/17/2025

Join us in conversation with Andrea Cohen, Poet and Guggenheim Fellow this Thursday, November 20, 7:30 PM. Faculty & Staff Café, 8th Floor of Hunter’s West Building! 📚
Open to the Public.
No RSVP Required.

11/06/2025

Join us this evening in talks with Megha Majumdar at the Roosevelt House. RSVP at the link in bio. 📚

10/28/2025

Join Hunter College’s MFA faculty and students TOMORROW for our open house Zoom: poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, oh my! The best way to get the real picture, the full-frame portrait, the uncensored view of one of the best MFAs in New York City, is to have frank conversations with the only people who know the truth: our students. (And yes, faculty will be there too.)
7:30 pm. DM us if you need the Zoom link!

10/19/2025

Join us this Thursday at 7:30 PM for our next distinguished writer, Martín Espada. 8th floor, faculty dining hall in Hunter West. 📚

10/15/2025

Congratulations to Hunter MFA faculty Megha Majumdar for the selection of A Guardian and a Thief by Oprah’s Book Club. Majumdar’s latest book is available now!

10/08/2025

Join Hunter’s MFA students in this years KGB reading! Students will read original pieces, hearing from poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. Come down to KGB Bar in the East Village, 10/22 at 7pm.

06/29/2023

"Civil Disturbance" by Hunter professor 𝗦𝗮𝗶̈𝗱 𝗦𝗮𝘆𝗿𝗮𝗳𝗶𝗲𝘇𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗵 is a short story necessary for our time. Read it in the June 19 issue of The New Yorker.

“Never mind what the pie charts say, canvassing in the cold, at night, is not optimal. This is dinnertime, this is couch time, this is prime time.”