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    Creative Writing: Fiction

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    Wow you are a fount of information, thank you so much. I really hope it's today, I don't want another Weekend of Anxiety ?
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    Has anyone heard from Sarah Lawrence yet? Everyone on Draft seems to think it could be any second now. On the edge of my seat . . .
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    Well, I just got the rejection from Virginia, too. BUT at the same time I got a phone call from University of Mississippi letting me know that I was officially in (after I had been waitlisted a week ago)! This is the first fully-funded offer I've received and I'm thrilled. Still waiting on a few schools, but for everyone else on waitlists right now, there is still so much shifting around that will happen as other candidates make decisions and give up their spots.
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    Congratulations!! That's amazing. For fiction or for poetry? I wrote to a professor in one program where I'm waitlisted asking if I should write a letter to Admissions, he basically just told me to sit tight? I don't know if that is universal advice . . .
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    Wondering the same thing!!
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    Hi y'all . . . Does anyone have advice on how to handle waitlists? I know a few professors at the University of Mississippi (where I'm waitlisted for fiction), but absolutely do not want to come across as a nag. I do, however, want to make sure they know how interested I am in the program and that I'd likely accept immediately if offered a spot. (Montana, where I'm currently accepted, is not fully funded, but Ole Miss would be + a stipend.) They haven't told me rankings for the waitlist or any sort of timeline. I know there are only 4 or 5 spots for fiction, so chances are still slim of getting in and I want to do everything I can. Any advice on how to proceed is so so appreciated!
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    I just heard from Ole Miss--I'm on the waitlist for Fiction. Has anyone else heard from them? Feeling happy but a bit disappointed it wasn't an all-out acceptance!
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    Ah, I didn't see that about Michigan on Draft! Thanks for letting me know. I royally messed up my biographical essay and so have been firmly expecting a rejection from them.
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    Hi! Curious as well about everyone. Here's what I'm waiting on (for fiction): Syracuse, Brown, Michener, NYU (though seeing as how lots of fiction acceptances have gone out, according to here and Draft, I'm expecting a rejection), Ole Miss (I know I made it into Phase II), Virginia, Michigan, Iowa, Sarah Lawrence, and Brooklyn College.
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    Hi! There are tons of good online literary magazines and sites that accept work from previously unpublished writers. Honestly there are so many of them that it helps if you have a focus or regionality you want to hone in on (southern, southwestern, fantasy writing, speculative fiction, anything you can imagine). Many sites/magazines have "submission windows," meaning for a specific span of time each year they accept unsolicited submissions--you can set up a calendar reminding you when which places are opening up their submissions inbox. I'll also vouch for a new print lit & criticism magazine that's Brooklyn based called The Drift, pretty sure they have open submissions! They are very cool. Other places you could look (that aren't as specific regarding subject or regionality) include Kenyon Review, Guernica, F(r)iction, Sewanee Review, Georgia Review, Baltimore Review, Tin House, Ploughshares, Paris Review, etc. Some of these are much harder to get into than others, but they definitely all do love to publish work by "unknowns." I hope this is helpful!
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    Hi! I'm new to this forum and applied to MFAs without realizing that this kind of community existed online--a friend told me about it yesterday. Anyways, with the announcements starting, I decided to seek y'all out . . . I applied to 12 programs for fiction and so far have been accepted to Montana (thrilled), rejected from Cornell, and am waiting on everything else. I know I made Phase II for University of Mississippi. I'm wondering: did any of you also get an acceptance from Montana for fiction? And has anyone been accepted to U of Miss for fiction (I know poetry acceptances went out, so am a bit nervous)? Thanks everyone!
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