Karmazinov

Pretty certain Rutgers Camden for fiction is OVER, but my portal still says decision pending, and I've received no communication. What's the point of not telling me yet? Anyone got word on their process?

I see on the Draft spreadsheet someone has been waitlisted for Rutgers-Camden. Do you think those who hadn't heard anything yet, could infer from this that they've been rejected?

I've wondered about this too - whether being older puts you at a disadvantage. I'm older than both of you. I can imagine the rationale of the institutions wanting to invest in younger writers who might go on to have careers which reflect back glory on the institution they came from... Anyone know if being if there's an age cut off beyond which it is very unlikely to get admitted?

Interesting. Thank you. Incidental forum technical matter - For some reason I'm finding I can't LIKE comments on here anymore. It says "Sorry you can't add any more reactions today". BWeird, I don't do that many reactions. And I can still post comments.

100% this. I am not a US citizen, but I am witnessing university culture here over the last year and I am STUNNED how safe and timid it is. I thought it was a bastion of radical thought, of brave protest etc, but I have seen how speaking about the brutal racist genocide can get you blacklisted, fired, kicked out, doxxed, assaulted. Also, amazed how tenured professors, who've made a name for themselves on supposedly freedom oriented causes, colonialism etc, now keep their traps tight shut on live abuses, and just generally how careerist everyone is. I certainly don't think art should only be in the service of politics, in fact it often bores me aesthetically, and I usually prefer more indirect stuff. But I am just shocked how hypocritical people are, and how aggressive the conserative political forces are, and how the academy only pays lip services to causes that are dead, not those ongoing. "Follow the money" is the key phrase to trace all this.

Yeah I got nothin so far. 2 rejections. thank you!

ahhh. thank you. 😒 I mean UMass Boston actually. Just assuming rejections anyway

Anyone know when to expect word from Brown, UMass, and Rutgers?

Congratulations. That's very exciting. The closed doors must make the open one all the sweeter.

That could be amazing!

Hi all. Really appreciate this community. It is interesting to me how seriously people take the prospect of getting an MFA. I feel like we should understand it is not a cosmic rejection of you as a writer if you don't get an acceptance, although I understand the disappointment. I have been rejected from 2 and am waiting on 3 more. I know it stings. But remember there are many worse things happening. There is a genocide occurring for instance. Financed, armed by the US government, and its grotesque barbaric details ignored by the media. Hind Rajab, anyone? If I don't get in to an MFA it will not mean God has turned his back on me. Or that I'm a failed writer. I write because I must. I want to. I aspire to be as good as I can. I don't know if I what I have to say will be of interest to anyone. I don't think the world owes me a professional career as a writer. I know I can keep writing as long as I have writing materials and some spare time. Of course, it is elemental to writing that there is a reader. We want to be read. So I understand the desire for commercial or institutional success. But there are other paths to a readership than an MFA. It will suck if, and probably when, I get my next 3 rejections. But it won't stop me writing, submitting, trying different things, different ways to become a read writer while still being driven by that authentic, naive, natural writing impulse I've had since I was a chld - which is simply to explore interesting sentences/paragraphs/pages/blocks of imaginative text that form their own coherent spellbinding world. The rest is fate and silence.