nottheamazonalexa

ahhhh gotcha well congrats again and best of luck in getting off the waitlist

CONGRATS!!!! Wow that is 3x smaller. I am also hoping to receive a waitlist from them (poetry). Did you just get the email right now? Are you also poetry?

UW Seattle: Someone received this email from them yesterday: "The initial offers have gone out from both the poetry and prose committees. Because our offers involve funding, accepted applicants have until April 15th to let us know their decision although we hope they will tell us sooner. Given our funding, we cannot make new offers until we've heard the decisions of these initial applicants. Waitlisted applicants will be notified by email from the Director of Creative Writing. These have not gone out yet. But if you do not receive a waitlist email you will probably not receive an offer this year although we will not deny anyone until we are close to getting our class. Thank you for your patience during this process." Iowa: There have been a few people waitlisted so not sure if that means all acceptances are done, but that's likely the case. Iowa responds via post for both rejections and waitlists. (Poetry and fiction writers both have been waitlisted). Michener: Actually, you should check your portal. A lot of people (me included lol) were rejected there before they received an email to check so just make sure you don't have anything there. I also did see someone say something about all decisions being communicated by "early this week" so if you don't see anything from Michener by tomorrow its likely a rejection and likely an administrative oversight like @Downtozero suggested. Hope this helps!

I'm waiting on 6 if that helps!! A lot of people are in limbo so don't feel alone. What schools are you wondering about in particular? I'm happy to help give a summary of what I've encountered on draft. It does take a while to get into the group, I gotchu though feel free to ask specifics. In regards to Michener I have seen a few people on draft in the same boat in terms of not hearing anything. There was a round of rejections yesterday so maybe no news there is good news? (read: an optimistic take)

CONGRATS

Not necessarily - for example on draft there was an ASU candidate that was waitlisted last week (I think maybe tuesday?) and someone else was accepted saturday night. I think we just gotta wait it out!!

+ IOWA LOL

Unfortunately no this was a real person (in draft) if you’re talking about a poetry acceptance on 3/5

The publication I'm referencing having asked my recommenders about whether or not to notify the schools that it was being published was in my app also. Answer was still no -- but I feel your pain.

kind of related but random question regarding publications: if my work was accepted for an upcoming issue and at the time of acceptance they said it would be coming out at the end of february but the old issue is still up....is there an etiquette on asking about when the work will be published or will be lit mag gods be angry if I question them and decide to like no longer use my work lol

Congrats!!! Mississippi is a great program!!!! People have asked similar things in draft and the consensus has been no. I personally asked my profs/recommenders if they thought I should let the committees know about publication news I had received and they said it would probably come across as pestering and that the schools only care about their own evaluations of your work so publication news/other accolades will not help. I'd say don't stress and CONGRATS!!!

Mississippi maybe?

genuinely shocked no news from Iowa in fiction or poetry today (so far)....weird. I'm just going to assume "end of the week" is sunday to them haha !

Well done you should be so so proud of yourself! They didn't happen to say what the heck is going on with poetry did they? So confused on that front hahah.

CONGATS! how did you find out??