Whitworth University is thrilled to announce our search for an MFA Program Director. This is a two-year, low-residency faith-based MFA program with four possible tracks: poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and open-genre spiritual writing. Students attend five, 10-day in-person residencies over the course of their studies and work online, one-to-one with mentors during academic semesters in between; however, the MFA Director is expected to work onsite in the beautiful Pacific Northwest (at Whitworth University in Spokane, WA). This MFA Program, the Whitworth Writers Workshop, draws on the productive programmatic history of the MFA in Creative Writing at Seattle Pacific University and will launch its first cohort of students in January 2026, with the expectation that the new director will help make this program a uniquely valuable Whitworth experience. MFA Program Director application review begins April 1, 2025.
Link to MFA program, the Whitworth Writers Workshop, website: https://www.whitworth.edu/cms/academics/mfa-in-creative-writing/
Link to MFA Program Director job ad: https://www.schooljobs.com/careers/whitworth/jobs/4860825/mfa-program-director?page=1&pagetype=jobOpportunitiesJobs
Questions about the Director position can be sent to Search Chair Dr. Jess Clements (jclements). Questions about the Program itself can be sent to mfa.
Dr. Jessica E. Clements
Professor, English
Chair, Department of English
Director, Composition Commons
Co-Managing Editor, Present Tense Journal http://www.presenttensejournal.org/