UCR Low Residency MFA Press Office

11/24/2025

A very special Arts & Letters! We'll be hosting our second event of the season during our twice annual MFA residency at the Tommy Bahama Miramonte Resort...and you're invited! Tod Goldberg will be talking about his instant bestseller ONLY WAY OUT in an exclusive conversation with his editor, Gracie Doyle. December 6th, 8pm, Tommy Bahama Miramonte Resort in Indian Wells.

11/03/2025

We're delighted to announce our first Arts & Letters event of 25/26 is the legendary Susan Straight! Reserve your seat here:

National Book Award finalist Susan Straight in conversation with Tod Goldberg on the release of her new novel, "Sacrament." Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as the "Consistently brilliant author's finest book yet," and People -- which also named the book their Pick of Week -- as "Straight's new stunn...

10/21/2025

Two of our professors are pretty much just the Best Americans.

08/22/2025

Congratulations to MFA professor Gabino Iglesias!

We are pleased to announce that Gabino Iglesias has

08/05/2025

Publishers Weekly weighs in with a rave for MFA alum Jaime Parker Stickle's debut!

07/11/2025

Get away to write...your movie, your TV show, or your play. Applications for fall are due August 1st.

Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts

07/11/2025

Get away to write. Applications for fall are due August 1st.

Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts

06/25/2025

Our alums continue to kill it...today, Arlon Jay Staggs is on the NYT's Modern Love podcast, talking about his essay:

Arlon Jay Staggs knew it was time to stop sharing his location with his mother, but with everything his family was going through, he just couldn’t figure out how to tell her.

06/25/2025

It's pub day for Nicholas Belardes!

When Greta Molina’s old friend Tiller offered her the job, a ten-day cattle drive across the Wyoming prairie from the ranching town of Ten Sleep, it sounded like a well-paid break. Three hundred and twenty cows and calves, two guys her age she’s known since college, and a few long days on...

06/25/2025

Professor Ivy Pochoda is profiled today in the New York Times:

The award-winning mystery novelist’s new book, “Ecstasy,” is a supernatural feminist take on Euripides’ play “The Bacchae.”

06/24/2025

Congratulations to MFA alum Emily St. Martin on her Los Angeles Press Club win!

06/22/2025

MFA professor Ivy Pochoda picks up a big award for her short story "Jackrabbit Skin"!