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HOLY SHIT CONGRATULATIONS!!

Well there’s 5 fiction spots this year so you never know! Things shake out in crazy ways and maybe we could end up in the same cohort! It’s so hard to keep expectations tempered 😭 I’m a painful optimist and I’m trying to be reasonable but at least it’s a temporary time of stress and mystery

It’s stressful out here but I’m glad we’re in it together. I hope that you get good news from them soon! What genre are you applying in? Thank you so much, I’m hoping real hard for it. ❤️

Draft shows that a CSU poetry admit got a GTA offer on Friday, which puts me on edge that either they went out and I didn’t get one OR maybe I’ll get good news Monday? I hope? I’m so so thrilled by CSU’s program and they’re my top choice but without funding I couldn’t take it :((( Huge congrats to hzu if they’re here, that’s a great combo of schools!

What programs do y'all think we’ll hear from this coming week? I’ve got Wyoming and UNLV on my radar, and I know at this point it’s kind of all kind of starting to enter free game territory.

Holy shit congratulations!!!!

First Iowa writers workshop fiction acceptance in draft sorry i was late and redundant lol congrats to Nicole the cat!!

That's a great plan! Also, no writing is wasted writing. If you're driven to keep working on your novel, you totally should and that's not to say you can't work on short stories at the same time! The life of a writer is full of rejections and it's best to practice it often so you don't lose your calluses lol For this season though, you're still in the running so don't count yourself out!

I substantially revised one of the stories I submitted last round, did smaller revisions to another that got published between my first round and now, and then an entirely new one that I only sent out to two programs in addition to a revised one. (I sent each program two short stories) I will say, the revisions were needed and made for a much stronger application. I think it really depends on what you've got locked and loaded. My stories I submitted this time are my most polished pieces and I gave them a lot of revisions. I've gotten in with both my revised pieces and my new one, but there's no way to really know until you do it. Just send what you think is your strongest. I think reading craft books like "A Swim in a Pond in the Rain" and even "Elements of Style" have really helped me polish my work for resubmission this round. I hope that you hear good news soon! I'm also a big plan b person lol

I'm sorry you're having a hard time and facing that dreaded wall of rejections. I will say, you still have two left! My first round, I got a waitlist at the very end. I applied to 10 schools and got waitlisted at 1 that never panned out and rejected from all the others. I took a couple of years off between because I wasn't sure that I was ready for the taxing (mentally and financially) journey of applications so soon. I used revised versions of stories I submitted last round and one new piece, and they've been well received so far! It's not over until it's over and it's okay if you need to step back from the process if it doesn't work out this time. Be easy on yourself and it's okay to feel whatever it is your feeling. ❤️

Hype!(?) That's amazing! Congrats!

@carly rae jepsenn CONGRATULATIONSSSSSS THAT'S AMAZING!!!!!!

That's huge!!! Congratulations and I hope it goes well!! ❤️

HOLY SHIT LETS GOOOOOO CONGRATS

University of Michigan (Helen Zell) poetry acceptance just dropped in the draft

Fingers crossed its good results!! A lot of non EST places call later as well and some places seem to reach out after office hours so the day is young yet!

Oh my god thank you guys so much, this forum has been my life blood this past month and a half and I hope y'all get good news soon ❤️❤️❤️ Thank you!!! The admissions counselor said March 1st would be when she hopes a decision will be made by tysm that's so sweet of you to say 😭 We're just all a bunch of freaks (non-derog) on a forum rooting for each other and writing and screaming and I love it Also @pananoprodigy I'd be stoked to be a lumberjack with you!

Y'all I just got a call from NAU, I'm accepted and 1st on the waitlist for funding!!!! (I'm on an insane killstreak so far all acceptances and simultaneously no guaranteed funding but I trust the process ❤️)

UNLV poetry acceptance dropped stay calm guys (my heart stopped) Edit: HUGE congrats to Uyioghosa if you're here!!

I feel like lately the day starts quiet but then by the afternoon it's popping off. The draft spreadsheet is already filling up for today with notifs from UMass, ASU, MN State Mankato, and UA. I know NAU accepted Pananoprodigy yesterday so I'm hoping we get some news from them today. Michigan could drop any moment too based on last year's data.

Idk if that's the best attitude to approach this with. All fully funded MFA's are selective and competitive as hell. Even partially funded ones are selective and competitive. There's only 88 Michener notifications in the draft out of their 800 reported applicants. I considered CSU a soft rejection or waitlist at the best because one person got accepted into fiction weeks ago. But alas, it was not the case! You're not out til you're out!

Holy shit congratulations!!!!!!

Yes, fiction!! Thank you guys so much 😭 Funding through GTAship tbd but i've been so so so hype about this program I'm losing my mind I can't believe this is happening

HOLY FUCKING SHIT I JUST GOT INTO CSU I'M SCREAMING AND CRYING OH MY GOD

Yay omg congrats!!!!