Jane Wyman

Hooray!!!

Manifesting ... Nice UVA news!

Manifesting 3 p.m. EST results.

Generic grad school. I guess they want all of their applicants to feel bad, lol.

"If somehow, miraculously, you turn into less of a garbage raccoon, please do not hesitate to throw $135 at us again. Though of course, it shall be in vain."

Whew, this line from the Davis rejection I just got: "If in the future you believe that your accomplishments may be competitive, please do not hesitate to reapply." I know this is their form rejection, but wow.

Ah hell.

Does NWP usually notify waitlists first, or are there no fiction acceptances out yet?

What's coming soon? Seems like WashU and Hunter are nigh, maybe NWP and U of O? Either way, manifesting GOOD NEWS FOR ALL.

The 1995 Pride and Prejudice mini-series? Righteous Gemstones?

Hell yeah!

I think the majority of writers are not like that, but there's always one or two in every workshop ... and who knows if they were charged with reading your application? ETA: I agree with spewilicious.

I haven't read applications before, but at my current program, first-round readers are often grad students, and their taste is not necessarily perfect. Especially these days, readers have trouble detecting dramatic irony, and I've noticed some younger readers are needlessly prudish at times ("this story made me feel bad, therefore it is bad"). So, your manuscript could fail to make it through the first round for reasons that have nothing to do with quality.

Thank you so much! That warms my heart.

UMass Amherst, UMich, Vandy, Michener, Syracuse, Johns Hopkins, and Cornell all gave me form rejections, and I thought the rest of app season would go like this. So, if you've gotten nos across the board so far, don't give up hope.