molemola

I have no idea, I'm sorry!

nope! a different school. I also didn't get the extra funding, ha.

My understanding is they have 3 funded fiction, 3 unfunded fiction acceptances offered at the moment. Idk if this is helpful, but fwiw, I only just formally accepted an offer and released my other acceptances today. I was waiting on a decision about extra funding from the university (not the department), and it took forever for that to get processed. I would imagine a lot of decisions like that are taking longer this year, and that might be impacting how long people are holding off on making a decision, pushing waitlist notifications out.

tbh I think JHU makes their dept admin hit send on every rejection single-handed or something, they always take so long to send Rs

I'll PM you!

I declined a space at GMU before interviews happened, so hopefully that helps someone get funding. This week, I'm also hoping to get information on an additional fellowship from one of my schools. Once I have a yea or nay on that I can make my decision, I think.

tbh lots of decisions have gone out on weekends this year! so I'm not terribly surprised.

It's hard to say - definitely the first impressions and consistency with which people are responding and engaging with me matters. There are other factors (length of program, funding, teaching load) that matter too, though. People I've talked to about this who have gone through the process (mostly alumni from my spouse's program) told me to just go off vibes, though. In other news, a result from my last school has hit the spreadsheet. Different genre, though.

Poets & Writers has a great list to start. I think, generally, it makes sense to apply to residencies that are free or offer scholarships, or are more targeted demographics wise (e.g, Cave Canem), easy to get to/regional. Make a list that way, budget for fees, and then if you have any fee money left over, go for the big ones like Yaddo and MacDowell. oh, and edit: about a third of the students in my partner's MFA were trans, and a few more non-binary, so I truly hope the landscape hasn't changed that much. hold out hope!!

I'm going to need miffy to drop the memoir asap. Also big green coat and their poetry collection.

I think you missed my point.

I do think lit and genre fiction have very different norms. My partner writes more literary/surrealism, and their impression is that for literary fiction, MFAs do matter.

I just wanna say I am very impressed with the acceptances here. Threadmates are killing it.

Yes, for fiction!

Yesterday I got a lot of news - acceptances from George Mason (I checked the portal) and NC State. And also the rejection from Helen Zell that everyone else in the back half of the alphabet got, heh. I'm still processing. I don't have all funding info, but GM is closer to our in-laws than the others, so that's really compelling, for childcare reasons. I'll just have to see what shakes out.