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Saw this Tweet from MFA Writers Podcast. I think it’s great advice for the coming weeks. Best wishes to all of y’all!
“As MFA decision letters start to roll in, two reminders:
1. Be kind to yourself. Your personhood is unrelated to a program decision.
2. Be kind to others. Your safety school is another person's dream school.“

Love Astoria. Might you be willing to share a link to the Airbnb listing for the old Victorian house?

Makes me want to get in an electric VW bus and drive up the coast! I can't believe I've never been to the Cascades -- or Crater Lake. The well-lived road trip strikes me as a fair alternative to grad school. Depending. 

Makes me want to get in an electric VW bus and drive up the coast! I can't believe I've never been to the Cascades -- or Crater Lake. The well-lived road trip strikes me as a fair alternative to grad school. Depending. 

Ah yes, novels coming out of the walls in this place. Thanks!

I’m currently reading the new one from George Saunders—A Swim in a Pond in the Rain—and it’s excellent.

Poetry Twitter is the most supportive writing community I’ve ever been part of. I don’t know what I’d do without it - a very positive, uplifting group of people. Even very accomplished poets are happy to read / share / critique the work of lesser known poets (like me). I recommend joining Twitter if you’re a poet (though I hear other communities can be negative there). 

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Love Astoria. Might you be willing to share a link to the Airbnb listing for the old Victorian house?

Anyone who applied to Helen Zell (Michigan,Ann Arbor) the "How to Apply" page updated and said that decisions will be made in early March! Hope this eases some February nerves! 

In Astoria, so actually the Goonies town, but Haystack Rock is down south quite a ways. I came here a bit growing up, but it's been a while. Lovely place, really. The Airbnb I'm in is a beautiful old Victorian house, so it's been great for reading Joyce and working on the novel.
And yes, my brother has always referred to "beach people." Astoria is different, but most of Oregon's coastal towns have something a little off about them.