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I’m glad I’m not getting rejected by Michener right now. I don’t think my heart could handle it.

On an unrelated note, I gotta love some of the usernames people came up with. Especially the food ones. I won’t tag them, but just looking through the online user list makes me laugh. Notification stress eating truly is a universal phenomenon.

@anarchisttiger heard anything back yet? Also I looked on the poetry section of IWW acceptances and it seems people have called the school in the past. I’m not gonna call though, because also on the board in 2018, 2017 and 2015 acceptances went out by the 21st if not earlier. 2019 was weirdly behind 2 entire weeks, and if that happens again I’m gonna break. If anyone else wants to call to find out, I will give you all of the brownie points I have accumulated over a lifetime.

I feel the same about whining about Iowa so bad. I’m not very religious (even though I just converted to a new religion late last year), but I’ve been begging the powers that be for an Iowa acceptance/waitlist for the exact amount of time since I found out the school existed. It would be really weird for me to get in at Iowa considering every other school so far rejected me, but I just want some validation that all my effort and time and heartbreak was leading somewhere.

I can imagine they still have fiction applications to get out still, so maybe once everyone is notified for fiction they can work on your acceptance letter. Every year more people apply for Iowa’s fiction and CNF program (poetry is unclear), so maybe they don’t have a letter put together just yet. I don’t think you got a call by mistake, and I don’t think they forgot about you. Since you were accepted I’m sure it’s fine if you call and ask when you’ll receive your acceptance letter and all the funding details that’ll probably come with it.

So I decided to read through the UNLV website again. Their program is so delightfully strange. Just realized you’re supposed to do forms and workshop in two different genres (only three credits each in the second one though), in addition to the traveling, translating, pedagogy, and the critical essay. I’m so confused, I read through this description on their website at least 15 times and didn’t catch that first part until now. I wish they organized in sections instead of one long page of all their features. On a side note, when my Iowa dreams inevitably fail, maybe I can snag one of the five spots at UNLV, or maybe not. Sorry for the ramble, I’m so nervous today. (I’m pretty sure Iowa’s poetry acceptances could be coming out tomorrow, ahhhhhhhhhhhhh)

Try to enjoy tomorrow regardless of what happens. Happy birthday in advance, hopefully Iowa gives you a nice birthday present.

The radio silence on this one makes me want to vomit. Everything else I could deal with. I can handle the three rejections in a row (barely, but I guess I’m okay), but waiting for Iowa is making me physically sick.

They don’t usually finish until three days have gone by, yeah? I’m assuming they’re going to do things on a similar timeline to 2018. I hope they just tell you a good timeline, and not just “wait and see”.

Those of you on draft, if there are any of you, did any other acceptances for Iowa go out? Yesterday there was nothing here for any genre, not that I’m expecting anything fo poetry this early.

I burnt myself out in the early stages tbh, I was way more active here and I checked my email ten times a day. After those three rejections I had to reassess my situation. I can’t under perform at my job or I’ll be fired, so I guess I don’t really have a choice but to perform.

My productivity has gone up because if I just throw myself into everything else, I can’t worry about my hopes and dreams being crushed as much. I realize this doesn’t apply to many people, but it’s honestly the same method as cleaning my room when I have something important to do.

Poetry is usually some days after fiction is done with acceptances, which makes waiting far worse.

I also want to sob into a chocolate cake due to pessimism, but I’m not going to lie, I may have laughed at the image of someone face down in a frosted layer cake. I don’t know why that image makes me laugh, maybe I’m going insane due to my last hope (Iowa acceptance) being highly unrealistic to be a reality.

Yeah, I’m attempting to construct a complete timeline for the novel I’m writing and my brain is melting. I gotta admire all the fiction writers who want to write a novel.

Now see, I did the opposite, I talked up Iowa a whole bunch and told almost everyone. Since I haven’t gotten into any schools yet, I feel like an idiot.

@rbr542 OMG! Congrats! When I read that you’d got in I nearly cried (I was genuinely happy at least one of us was definitely in).

I would totally go into publishing and found a new magazine with anyone here.

My fiction people who applied to IWW, you should expect a phone call relatively soon (in the next two days) if you’re being accepted. Poetry people it’s a bit hazier but probably an email a few days after the last fiction acceptances go out. My hope has suddenly come back to life because it’s a bigger cohort and I want to believe I might have a tiny chance of making a spot low on the waitlist.

May the invisible literary forces help us all get into Iowa, or wherever your top pick is. Could you imagine all of us getting into Iowa, at least I would vaguely know people.

I hope Iowa's poetry comes out at a similar time as fiction this year. I know I've given up, but I still want to know.

So I think I found out what I’ll be doing before I wait for next year to come around (Yes I’ve already given up before it’s over). I know most of us are literary fiction and poetry, but I really want to write a fantasy novel to escape, at least for a little while. I know it sounds like I’ve devolved, maybe I have, but I think this might be a lot less pressure on me as a writer and poet. I could use less pressure at the moment if I’m being honest.

Rejected by Cornell. I might be seeing some of you next year tbh. I’m not sure I would go anywhere else left on my list besides Iowa.

Not sure how many of us care about today but have a good day regardless of what you'll be doing.

Thanks to everyone who replied to my earlier panic. I’m still very worried, but now I’m worried while surrounded by good sentiments and reassurance so the dread probably won’t last as long.