The MFA Program at CIIS invites writers and artists working in wide-ranging genres and forms to be in conversation with one another through classes, workshops, and events.

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We challenge our students to better articulate their work and connect with communities through engaging across disciplines in a culture of inquiry.

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Since 2009, Mission at Tenth manifests these conversations through presenting and promoting the inter-arts; we provoke dialogue between and among artists by placing innovative work from many genres, forms, and disciplines in relationship to each other.

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Mission at Tenth celebrates the diversity and complexity of our home in the San Francisco Bay Area while also adding to the inter-arts by publishing emerging and established artists who blur boundaries and extend borders through their work.