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  1. "Applicants who have previously completed all or part of an advanced degree in creative writing at another university should include a separate letter explaining what special circumstances lead them to pursue an MFA at Brown (this should be uploaded with your personal statement – but should start a new page, and carry a header of 'Work toward a master's degree in a related field'). Without this explanatory letter, the faculty will not review the application. (The primary accepted basis for completing a second advanced degree in writing is the stated desire to pursue work in a different genre.) " https://www.brown.edu/academics/literary-arts/graduate/admission/admission
  2. Do not disrespect Jess. They work tirelessly, and for free, to moderate a 1.8k person Facebook group. They help the literary community. You, on the other hand, are an anonymous, racist troll. Go on and tell the class about what sort of "black things" you think one can't say in Draft. There's a reason you're hiding behind the term "PC" in describing Draft. There's a reason a whole separate POC Draft page exists. It's not "censorship" to curtail racist speech.
  3. There will be! I'll make sure to let y'all know once it's up.
  4. Hi, all. Just one more, day-of reminder that The Workshop is hosting a free panel for MFA applicants and you can still register over at readtheworkshop.com/events/ And I'll be generally around if anyone has questions about CU Boulder--just @ me. Last year I started up an Ask An MFA Alum thread on here, so if you'd like a tiny bit of intel, there's already some out there. Feel free to add more questions over there or over here, and I'll get to them ASAP.
  5. Solid reason! (frame of reference: replier hopes one day Ottessa Moshfegh will love them back)
  6. Brown has a first year fellowship with no teaching and a $26k stipend, ~$3k summer stipend between the first and second years, for starters.
  7. Hi, Grad Cafe! Popping back in with a reminder that The Workshop's free I Applied to MFAs: What's next? webinar will be happening one week from today. See below for details, and let me know if you have any questions. See you there! --- The Workshop will be hosting a *free* I Applied To MFAs: What's Next? panel for MFA applicants (as well as anyone out there who sat out this cycle, but is thinking of applying down the line) on Sunday, March 14th from 4-5:30PM Eastern. Our panelists are graduates in poetry, fiction, CNF, and hybrid-genre writing from the University of Alabama, Brown, Cornell, Indiana University, Northern Michigan University, UNC-Wilmington, and Warren Wilson. Members of The Workshop team with MFAs from OSU and CU Boulder will also be in the chat helping answer questions, and the event will be spearheaded by moderator Eshani Surya (U of Arizona). We'll be answering questions on how to proceed once you've heard back from your programs, no matter your results. Full details as well as links to our registration and Q&A forms are up on The Workshop's site at readtheworkshop.com/events.
  8. Gotcha! We'll be having a Q&A following the panel, but unfortunately our panelists aren't going to be able to stick around after that for an informal discussion. Last spring when I participated as a panelist, someone in the audience utilized the contact form on my website to reach out to me with follow up questions, so that might be the best way to go about reaching out to anyone you'd like to learn more from. Happy to answer any further questions about the webinar!
  9. Yay, thank you for signing up and for encouraging! When you say we could maybe chat afterwards, do you mean me or the panelists?
  10. Greetings, people of Grad Cafe! I, the mysterious forthetruththeyburnyou, am going to let A Cat out of A Bag and let you know that I am in fact The Workshop's Managing Editor. Pleasure making your acquaintance. Please see below for an exciting message! The Workshop will be hosting a *free* I Applied To MFAs: What's Next? panel for MFA applicants (as well as any of you out there who sat out this cycle, but are thinking of applying down the line) on Sunday, March 14th from 4-5:30PM Eastern. Our panelists are graduates in poetry, fiction, CNF, and hybrid-genre writing from the University of Alabama, Brown, Cornell, Indiana University, Northern Michigan University, UNC-Wilmington, and Warren Wilson. Members of The Workshop team with MFAs from OSU and CU Boulder will also be in the chat helping answer questions, and the event will be spearheaded by moderator Eshani Surya (U of Arizona). We'll be answering questions on how to proceed once you've heard back from your programs, no matter your results. Full details as well as links to our registration and Q&A forms are up on The Workshop's site at readtheworkshop.com/events/. We're also on Facebook @readtheworkshop, Twitter @The__Workshop, and Instagram @readtheworkshop. And we can't wait to have you at our I Applied To MFAs: What's Next? panel! (with special thanks to @feralgrad for suggesting I post on this thread)
  11. You are the actual GradCafe MVP. Thank you so much. Just in case, hi other GradCafers. Here's a link to the fully updated website with links to our registration page and Q&A form: readtheworkshop.com/events
  12. Hi, all-- Here's the FB event page with some more info and an extra way to have a reminder for what'll be a pretty great event: https://www.facebook.com/events/429170851719238
  13. Greetings, people of Grad Cafe! I, the mysterious forthetruththeyburnyou, am going to let A Cat out of A Bag and let you know that I am in fact The Workshop's Managing Editor. Pleasure making your acquaintance. Please see below for an exciting message! The Workshop will be hosting a *free* I Applied To MFAs: What's Next? panel for MFA applicants (as well as any of you out there who sat out this cycle, but are thinking of applying down the line) on Sunday, March 14th from 4-5:30PM Eastern. Our panelists are graduates in poetry, fiction, CNF, and hybrid-genre writing from the University of Alabama, Brown, Cornell, Indiana University, Northern Michigan University, UNC-Wilmington, and Warren Wilson. Members of The Workshop team with MFAs from OSU and CU Boulder will also be in the chat helping answer questions, and the event will be spearheaded by moderator Eshani Surya (U of Arizona). We'll be answering questions on how to proceed once you've heard back from your programs, no matter your results. Click on the registration link below to get signed up ASAP for this free (yes, free! $0.00!) event happening on Sunday, March 14th from 4-5:30 PM. Full details will be up on The Workshop's site shortly at readtheworkshop.com/events/. I'll follow up here once everything's up, but the best way to both stay up to date and learn all about our amazing panelists is to follow The Workshop on here (FB), Twitter, and Instagram. We can't wait to have you at our I Applied To MFAs: What's Next? panel! https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GCOOXBAaTcKKl30hdlL9fA
  14. howdy. i'm way behind on this thread and will delete if someone else mentioned this, but Khadijah is headed to Virginia Tech next year. edit: caught up now. gonna leave this so that VT folks know she's headed there! it was announced on January 11.
  15. There's actually a PhD draft, too! The group name is "Creative Writing PhD Draft." And there's just been the one group for all cycles from ~2017 onward.
  16. I have vague recollections of Pitt, Brown, and maybe UMass Amherst doing interviews, I think maybe SAIC, too? but it's very much not a common practice, so I wouldn't stress out too much about upping your interview skills. Unless it'd be a helpful distraction!
  17. I promise (to the best of my ability) that they don't hate you; they just try to be really thorough when screening folks to make sure no professors infiltrate the group. (I haven't been in Draft since '19, but did see profs in there in the past trying to advertise their programs) You might want to see about joining the MFA Draft Poetry Workshop group on FB; it's been a hot minute, so I'm not sure what the vetting process is like there, but since it's smaller, might be easier to get green lit? I do the exact same thing, re: quality of work. Pre-, post-, and during MFA. I say this in a, hang in there, you're not alone! sort of way.
  18. Hey, all. Wanted to share this resource: The Workshop (fka The MFA Years, and featuring a list of fully-funded MFA programs) is offering a free MFA application panel on Sunday, Nov 8th at 4PM Eastern, with folks from Iowa, UC Riverside, Michener, University of Miami, Michigan, University of Arizona, Warren Wilson, and University of South Carolina. Registration is over here.
  19. Thanks for the update! Glad to hear about your writing =D
  20. Hi! Sorry for the delay! Just... ::gestures wildly at the world:: Know also my propensity is to be a bit long-winded in the interest of trying to give as complete an answer as possible! I don't know anything about Reinhardt, but I took a cursory look at its website. To better answer your questions, I'd need to know a bit more about who was asking you and what you're looking for. Reinhardt's low-res, and the popular opinion is that those are "cash cows" relative to most full-res programs that offer "full funding." Low-res programs the vast majority of the time CAN"T offer those teaching opportunities that full-res programs use to cover the tuitions of students; they also don't tend to offer much in the way of scholarships. Reinhardt looks as legit as any low-res program I've seen. It seems to have a regional focus. So, if you are already where it is and DON'T want to move elsewhere. If you were already planning on moving there. If you already have a well-paying job that you don't want to lose (...for example, I took a substantial pay cut when I stopped waiting tables and starting grad school) and CAN AFFORD tuition/any in-person components of Reinhardt... tldr it doesn't strike me as a profit machine based on cursory clicking around their program's website, it just looks very small and not well known and it seemed like it wouldn't be able to offer you much funding. I didn't look too extensively or Google any further, so please do correct me if I'm off base. I was admitted to my program in Poetry. Which two Poetry programs are you looking at?
  21. Sure thing! Thanks for kicking things off! A big negative is that my original thesis advisor stole my intellectual labor. I had read about such things occurring at the graduate level, moreso in the sciences, but thought that KNOWING it could happen would be sufficient to avoid it. Before and beyond that, my mental health suffered greatly. There are a lot of institutional factors at play here, a lot of systemic factors at play, but if you are at all able, I would advise anyone out there to go to your school's counseling center the moment your insurance starts up. Positives. Deadlines. Having deadlines is a tremendously helpful thing that you may or may not have access to outside of an MFA space. I'd gone into my program wanting to get experience running a reading series, and I was able to do that. There were employment opportunities on campus that I would not have otherwise had access to, some geared specifically towards grad students. It's also really great to get to be in the company of people who are really excited and nerdy about the things you're excited and nerdy about! I enjoyed hearing about what other grad students outside of my program and outside of my department were up to, too--we're making shit happen! And I do think I came out of it a much better writer. Unsolicited comment, but please know that "time to write" as a selling point of these programs is a lie. Teaching will take more out of you than you think. The only places where the "time to write" thing MAY be true is at, like, Michener or other places that have fellowship years. What almost all MFAs will do is force you to focus on your writing. To think about your writing. But the time you have to do it will be the time you can carve out rather than time granted by your institution. Aaand quick additional background note on me, I was very tapped into Draft my application season and the first 2.5 years of my program; I'm just one person, but I've encountered folks at a lot of other programs out there and will do my darnedest to provide what insights I can. I don't regret getting an MFA. I would do it again. It wasn't easy.
  22. Hi, all! I'm here because I work remotely, am able to pop on here fairly often, need distractions, and want to offer up what wisdom (?) I can, having wrapped up my MFA in August of 2019. I had some very, very bad experiences with my program--alongside some very, very good ones!--and for that reason I'd rather not name the school right off the bat. ...lest my username seem super ominous, know that it's a quote from a novel I gained an affinity for amidst one of my lit classes, Salome of the Tenements by Anzia Yezierska. Disclaimer, I'm one person with one set of experiences and opinions. Your mileage may vary. As may my ability to respond quickly. But I've been in your shoes and made it through. Also? We're going through some really intense shit right now. Please make sure you're reaching out to your communities, offering up what you can when you can and asking for what you need when you need it. Consult this Coronavirus Resource Kit to see if there's already a mutual aid network in place near you. We're not going through any of these struggles alone.
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