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  1. MissMosquito
    Same! I think I'm in "pre-grieving the loss" for this entire process. I'm from Austin, and my fiancé was banking on me getting into UT so we wouldn't have to move. With six rejections so far, it's hard not to assume that I won't be going anywhere next year as far as writing is concerned. Back to scrounging for crumbs with more online creative writing courses and publications with fledgling, no-name lit mags. I'm really in a negative place with all this. I read an entire book on my day off yesterday just so I wouldn't have to think about grad apps. Phenomenal book by the way. Has anyone else on here read Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward? Maybe I should take up a new hobby? I keep seeing rug tufting accounts on IG, and think I want to do that! At least with rug making, once it's done, I don't have to find a home for it like I feel I need to do with my poetry. If no one else wants it, I can just put the rug on my floor! Now my homeless poems, what to do with those? Any ideas? Maybe I could collage them with printouts of all my rejection emails.
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    I applied to MCW in poetry and no word yet. Last year, the Michener acceptances came out a day before the New Writer's Project (also at UT) and I saw on the results page that someone got a call with acceptance for the New Writer's Project in fiction.
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    I actually knew a guy who started doing this! I'm not sure any of his work has ended up in a grocery store aisle rack, but he definitely planned to self-publish steamy, soft-core romance novels via Amazon. And he graduated with an MFA degree in fiction from a fully-funded program! So I guess that urge never goes away, no matter how far you get with your writing.
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    Well I guess I can assume that since I received no calls from NY that I’ve been rejected from Cornell. I’m afraid to check my email to confirm—don’t want to get emotional at work. And to get on the bandwagon on what programs I’m waiting to hear back: a: 0 r: WUSTL, UO, IU, UM, Vanderbilt, Cornell Still waiting to hear from: Brown, Iowa, VA Tech, Notre Dame, Ole Miss, UT—MCW, UT—NWP, UV, and UC—Boulder With 6 rejections so far, I think I’ve already entered the acceptance stage of mourning—I know, I know, I’m not dealing with death or anything nearly as dramatic, but failure can feel like a sort of loss. I won’t let it get to me though. I’m already submitting to summer workshops. Fingers crossed I at least get an acceptance to a workshop. : /
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    Hi Kado, I got my hopes up with this issue, too. Then it occurred to me that most schools notify those they accept first before sending out waitlists or rejections. So I checked my junk/social folder on my gmail, and there the UM rejection emails was! I’d check there. Sorry ahead of time if it turns out to be a rejection like mine.
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    Yeah, way to get into a program on your first attempt. Best of luck with the rest of your apps. : ) Don’t know anything about UW-Madison, because I didn’t apply there.
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    I have a regular FB account that I hardly check, and even I gave up waiting for them to grant my request. I figured it was because I made the request so late in the game. ??‍♀️
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    Xena does win! Woot woot! So happy for your second waitlist! Validation indeed! Keep writing, keep working!
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    I'll DM you once I've picked a poem to workshop. Thanks for the offer. Wish we had a forum as community oriented as this one year round!
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    Yeah, considering I'm starting to accept straight rejections as a real possibility, maybe I should start workshopping now to prep for my next attempt at applications. Are you applying for poetry or fiction?
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    Welp, I didn't check my email yesterday once noon hit for this exact reason, but apparently UO doesn't count Valentine's Day as a real holiday. Was it UO that sent out rejection Valentines last year, or was it another program? Thanks UO, I didn't need to know on the 14th that you wouldn't, "Be Mine."
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    Have no idea if this will be another slow workday for you, but I'll certainly take you up on the offer. Expect a DM shortly.
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    That *shrug* is exactly how I'm feeling this stage in the waiting game. I'm taking koechophe's lead on how to cope with the dull pain of submitting yourself to the anticipated chances that seem to be at best a coin toss. I'm going to furiously write, edit, and submit no matter how uninspired I feel. I've also been researching summer workshops. If I don't get into any grad programs this year, fingers crossed I have a workshop to look forward to come sunshine and longest days.
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    This would be a workshop offer for other fiction writers, or are you comfortable working on poetry as well?
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    We’ll look at that!! Congrats! What a great day! So much hope today! And it’s such a clear sunny sky where I’m at. Let’s all check into our portals and see how many more acceptances come of it. : )
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    Thank you for sharing this news, hell yeah IN ALL CAPS!!!! I’m am through the roof for you!
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    I actually wrote a first draft of a poem about this agonizing purgatory. What form of torture is worse: waiting for MFA decisions, or being taken as a political prisoner in a cell with bright lights and heavy metal blaring for days on end?
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    Just got my form letter rejection from WUSTL. : ( : ( : (
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    Thanks for this advice. It's not something I would have thought to ask.
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    I don't know if I should even merit this comment with a response. I never said I plan on trying to have a kid at 42. I don't need any advice on fertility. As a nurse, my health literacy needs no assistance. And who is to say I can't hack pregnancy and childbirth while earning my graduate degree? It would be challenging I'm sure, but I know plenty of doctors who were pregnant while still in their residency, and residencies can be incredibly taxing with 60 hour work weeks. Three years could pass from now, and I still may not be pregnant, but could have earned an MFA by then. The fact of the matter stands, I was ready to apply, so I did. Despite my reservations, if I get into a program this year, there's no way I would miss the opportunity. Life happens now. I'm not going to put one goal on hold for the possibility of another. And if I start a family during that time, it takes a village to raise a child. I'll have plenty of support from two pairs of grandparents.
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    Can you please write a poem about this dream? All the Ozark I've been watching found its way into my dream last night. Not grad school related, but I thought I'd share nonetheless. I dreamt that Omar Navarro, the head of the Mexican drug cartel, was admitted to the psychiatric hospital where I'm a nurse, and it was my job to tell him he couldn't have his belt while on the unit, or cell phone, or the pile of cash and guns he brought with him.
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    Hi howbizarre, Thank you for your candid reflection on this panic-inducing limbo we applicants find ourselves in from the decision to apply to the prospective MFA programs' final decisions--however long that may be for an applicant. I'm the one who binged 17 straight hours of Netflix to "pacify my nerves." Embarrassing yes, but to my defense it was Ozark, which can suck you in like light to a black hole. I think my anxiety as an applicant is distilled by the same themes you addressed that seem to grapple with one another--Human Life versus MFA. Oftentimes artists feel they must forego raising a family because of limitations on time and resources. In the midst of mastery, no time can be sacrificed. I definitely had this mentality as an actress. Slowly my priorities changed. By the time I hit my thirties, I knew I wanted more than a life solely devoted to artistic pursuit. I wanted a family someday. I wanted to help humanity in a more direct and tangible way. This transformation rippled through the decisions I made for my life. I took a complete 180 degree turn in my career, when I gave up acting to become a nurse. This was a huge sacrifice for me. For so long, acting was what I built my identity around. Once foregone, I felt like I'd lost the love of my life. Writing took acting's place as a creative outlet, because it could be done alone during stolen minutes between exams and clinical hours. Then when I became a nurse, that stolen time was found between grueling 12 hours shifts. As a result, my progression as a poet has been a slow and intermittent trajectory as I juggled my evolution as a nurse and my search for a partner with whom the dream of a family would be possible. It took about as long to find a partner as it did for me to reach a point in my writing when I felt ready to apply to MFA programs. Now, at the age of almost 38 (I turn 38 on Friday), I'm nearing the end of my child-bearing years. I know my boyfriend will be my husband in the next year or two--depending on when he finally pops that question. I know we want to try for children as soon as yesterday, because I'm running out of childbearing time. The decision to apply to MFA programs was huge for me, but it's also compounded my anxieties and questions about whether I can have it all--whether I can do it all. All my goals are racing toward the same door, sorely late for the party. This seems to be my lot in life. Late bloomer to the end. I hope this means I die a centenarian! My dad was upset when I finally told him I applied to MFA creative writing programs, because he fears I wouldn't be able to juggle a newborn with graduate school. Then again, I come from a family of catastrophizing worry-warts. My boyfriend has been a hugely positive influence on my confidence. He seems to think I could do both, and he's ready and willing to support me financially to help make that happen. Despite his hopeful outlook, sometimes I wonder if I would be better off rejected from all my prospective programs to focus all my attention on starting a family now before it's too late. Whether or not other forum posters and forum stalkers are faced with the same crossroad as I am, I believe this limbo blows as you so aptly put it, because the arm wrestle between human life and artistic creation is a close call for some. If one is lucky enough to be born with the God-given aptitude for artistic expression, when inspiration hits, it can feel as precious as human life, because it comes from the same beauty and pain that makes a human's life worth living.
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    I said this verbatim to my boyfriend two days ago.
  24. MissMosquito
    I'm not sure. I've never applied to a summer workshop or fellowship. I'm assuming fellowships are for more established and well published poets. I don't know how hard the summer workshops are to get into. I guess one that is equally reputable and receptive to relatively new poets.
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    Hello M, Welcome and congrats on the interview! What program granted you an interview may I ask? I think it certainly bodes well for the rest of your pending decisions. At the very least, it tells you they judged your writing sample to be competitive. Granted, do take my advice with a grain of salt, the salt being that I'm offering wisdom without experience--a similar perspective as yours being my first year applying to MFA programs as well. Though, I'm not sure who on this forum would know the number of applicants a particular institution may invite to interview compared to the number of slots available in a genre. Likely, only admissions committee members of that institution know those details. No amount of scouring the internet on my part has produced that information. I assume this aspect of application decision-making would be as variable as the application itself. I myself found each application to be unique to the university and its department culture. What genre are you applying to study? What schools did you apply? Best, J
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