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UC Riverside

Palm Desert Low-Residency MFA

Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts

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Get Your Work in the the Right Hands
Create your best work
Choose from fiction, nonfiction, playwriting, poetry, and screenwriting tracks.
Learn About the Program
Come to the Sun
Come to the sun
Enjoy five 10-day residencies at the Omni Rancho Las Palmas Resort & Spa.
Explore the resort
Meet Your Mentors
Make industry connections
Share your work with agents, editors, producers, and showrunners.
Discover the residencies
Top 5
Online Screenwriting MFA Programs (MovieMaker Magazine, 2020)
2
years to change your life
5
sun-soaked residencies in beautiful Palm Springs
100s
of books, stories, essays, plays, poems, and screenplays published and produced

Meet your mentors

Our faculty and past guest faculty include Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, Emmy Award, and Academy Award winners.