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  • Application Season
    2021 Fall
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    MFA Creative Writing - Fiction

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  1. Rejection from BU today. Best of luck to all of you guys. This cycle is over for me and I'm trying again next year unless I become a millionaire and even maybe then.
  2. That's awesome. Keep doing you. I think when literary fiction can flirt with magical realism or sci-fi (etc.) it can possibly make it richer.
  3. I love to hear it!! I'm going to go check it out!!
  4. Hey, sorry if this doesn't flow with the conversation right now. But I'm curious: what's your writing aesthetic or style (addressed to all)? I know literary fiction is the general path of an MFA and I would agree that I write literary fiction. But it is riddled with the sentiment of diary (Kafka's diaries, Kate Zambreno, Rilke, Jenny Offill, etc.) and the interrupted (natural) pattern of the loosely kept thought (how Ocean Vuong speaks of our generation as the fragmented writers, post 9-11) as well as surrealism (moments one might call prose-poetry) and magical realism, while the foundation, at times, hints of a new lore being built. I truly write hybrid literary fiction. It's everything. And it refuses to be one thing. And that's what I submitted this (so far) unsuccessful cycle. I would never change the core of what I write to appease a program which may hold itself in contract to the (how, oh how should I put this) more normative (sane, safe if you will, those are the words) literary fiction of popular yearly awards lists. But I would love to know if that's what these programs really want: the thing that strikes an emotional societal chord and will, essentially, sell when standing up against the last great literary sale. So, anyway. I'm just curious. The term is Weird Fiction, I suppose, if I had to give you a quick blurb on my stuff. So yeah, just curious, especially to those who have gotten as many rejections as me: what, essentially is your aesthetic or style or what is the religion of your craft? This can be answered as loosely as you'd like or not at all. For me style is an ever-changing current that might bend to the will of the work's deepest sentiment. However, like I said, it's probably Weird Fiction on the whole....So, what the hell. Let's talk about it. Or DM me if you'd like. *(And might I quickly add, I ask out of curiosity and to see if there are any other boundary-pushers out there. Ultimately, I know there is still much improvement to be made on my work. So this isn't meant to disregard that fact.)
  5. Same boat over here and I'm just waiting on BU at this point
  6. Of course! But I still keep checking Draft to see if anyone has heard anything lol.
  7. Yep, I did and got a response March 15th stating we should be hearing back "by very beginning of April." But I really wish they could just send decisions out this week...
  8. Scanned a copy of the real letter and I just realized it has a date of March 5th. So, real timely update there. Smh.
  9. Denied at Iowa WW today. But via email from Deb West because I emailed like six days ago asking for info. Still no snail mail, but I got my answer. Welp! ?
  10. I'm not sure what to think about receiving no mail/emails from Iowa Writers Workshop yet and I just can't deal...
  11. Gonna listen to Leonard Coco now. ❤️
  12. I completely get it. Feel everything you're feeling, but don't give up because of this round. Look at me: I've pretty much given up any hope of getting in to the 11 schools I applied to. Now admittedly they were mostly all hoity-toity and I might have been kidding myself in the first place, but it's a learning experience for the next round. I'll mix in more state schools and apply to some of the harder to get in ones too. And I've also learned from these posts I should not have led with my experimental Prologue in a lot (not all) of my submissions. LMAO. Anyways, it's rough. I'm trying to plan my year in case I don't get in anyway to still write my ass off and still find peace regardless. Because honestly if you're a writer, you fucking know. No one can tell you otherwise. And it'll happen.
  13. Oh, I'm so sorry to hear. I've gotten a slew of rejections as well. Did Iowa's come via the mail? Or email/portal...
  14. Apparently John Hopkins has made some decisions and not sent out updates, guys. I just got another email (because I emailed everyone over the weekend lol) stating I wasn't accepted to JH and: "you will receive an official email within the next week or two." So that's cray cray. Like, if I hadn't emailed I wouldn't have known my fate for another week or two. Ha!
  15. I just received an email from BU stating they will send decisions at the "very beginning of April." I also just got another email from University of Virginia stating I will hear back from them "this week." Pending: John Hopkins, Iowa, BU, UVA
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