Ready to make your dream novel a reality?
Not MFA offers immersive online writing courses for busy professionals with double lives as closet novelists.
A trusted framework for writers everywhere
Every writer, no matter experience level, starts in the same spot: a blank page. NotMFA is based around our courses, our workshops, and our instructors to successfully help writers just like you develop their basic idea into a finished novel. Here’s how it works:
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NotMFA courses teach best practices. Writing a novel is more like a carpenter building a table than an artist waiting for the muse. We teach the craft fiction so that you can stop relying on inspiration.
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NotMFA workshops create community. Writing a novel is more fun with friends. You will work with empathetic and supportive fellow writers who want to help you write at your best.
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NotMFA instructors know your story. More mentor than teacher, we intimately understand what you want to accomplish with your writing and work to make your stories stronger.
What if you could have hands-on instruction, a focus on teaching the form of fiction rather than formula, and remain a high-priority in enrollment capped classes?
Our courses solve the problem of novel writing by providing flexible processes that teach you how to create stronger stories and the best ways to finish without relying on soul crushing discipline.
Our workshops are filled with your new best writing friends. Group feedback is always focused on improving your novel. There are laughs, some joyful tears, and a lot of growth in this community.
Our instructors are professional writers and teachers. Every genre and skill level is welcome, we meet you where you’re at to guide you to the finish line.
NotMFA is graduate school level teaching without the snobbery and practical instruction without resorting to the usual formulaic writing solutions found online.
Don’t take our word for it.
“Whenever Matt Cricchio critiques my writing, I listen. He’s an incredible writer and extremely well-read, but what sets him apart is his ability to not only see what’s there but what could be there. In workshops, we love to shun prescriptive feedback, but I’m telling you—if Matt prescribes something, it’s probably just what you need.”
— Rachel Beanland, author of Florence Adler Swims Forever
“Fiction writing is a commitment, a craft, an art and a profession, and in my life and career I've met very few writers as passionate and savvy about each of those things as Matt Criccho or with both the talent and the temperament to understand and master them all. The man was born to launch a venture like NotMFA.”
— Tom De Haven, novelist and Fiction Professor for over 30 years
“Matt Cricchio’s no-nonsense pick-up-your-bootstraps approach to writing is both accessible and efficient. He pursues the novel with laser focus and sets goals that are realistic and always rewarding. In short, he knows what it takes to become a successful writer, and he wastes no time getting you there.”
— Chad Luibl, Literary Agent at Janklow&Nesbit Associates
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Ready to finally write that novel you’ve always wanted?
If you want the course, the community, and the mentorship that will help you achieve your dreams sign up for NotMFA.
