UT Austin Screenwriting MFA 2026 (1 Viewer)

[avocados]

Hi everyone

Hopping on to say that I received an acceptance today. Super, super excited about this program! For any future lurkers on this thread, I received my invite on Feb 9th to interview either that Wednesday or Friday. Interviews were scheduled to last twelve minutes. Received an email & a phone call on the 16th which seems consistent with timelines from previous years.

Good luck to all with programs & decisions still pending the waiting game is a tough one

 

[avocados]

Congratulations!

Thank you!

 

[mrp]

Was this for the Michener program or general?

This was the regular MFA Screenwriting program, and I also got my acceptance today!

 

[mrp]

Was this for the Michener program or general?

This was the regular 2-year MFA Screenwriting program. They have accepted 7 so far, and I was one of them. Letters went out yesterday.

 

[avocados]

This was the regular MFA Screenwriting program, and I also got my acceptance today!

Congrats! Perhaps see you in the fall!

 

[Mophilos16]

Was this for the Michener program or general?

Not sure Michener does interviews.

Their decisions are out though. Mass rejection.

 

[Mophilos16]

Congrats @avocados and @mrp

 

[avocados]

Not sure Michener does interviews.

Their decisions are out though. Mass rejection.

Thanks!

And the Michener decisions are out?

 

[Mophilos16]

Thanks!

And the Michener decisions are out?

Yes. You can check it through the graduate portal, the one you login with your EID.

Sign in with your UT EID - Stale Request

enterprise.login.utexas.edu

 

[jmort663]

Has anyone actually received a formal rejection?

 

[kberry]

I received a formal rejection from Michener. No word from Austin so I assume it's a rejection.

 

[Chris W]

FYI - UNLV just announced they have an open screenwriting spot if you want to apply:

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Thread 'Fully Funded MFA Screenwriting at UNLV (Fall 2026, late opening)'

Wednesday at 10:39 AM

A place has come open in our MFA Screenwriting cohort for Fall 2026 following a late withdrawal, and we’d like to fill it from the strong writers already moving through this year’s cycle rather than wait until next year.

The MFA carries full funding: full tuition remission plus a graduate assistantship stipend of roughly $21,000 a year. It runs for three years and is deliberately small: eight writers total across all cohorts. Teaching is workshop-based and focused on developing original feature and television work.

Screenwriting faculty include Brock Norman Brock (BRONSON, THE MUSTANG...

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