2025 Creative Writing MFA Applicants Forum

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[Tuxedocat]

I GOT MY FIRST ACCEPTANCE! In for Poetry at Bowling Green State University! Guys I’m so happy 😭 it’s my first notification of the season!!!

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12 minutes ago, Tuxedocat said:

I GOT MY FIRST ACCEPTANCE! In for Poetry at Bowling Green State University! Guys I’m so happy 😭 it’s my first notification of the season!!!

1a/0w/0r/16p

Congrats!!! 

[AyvaM]

On 1/30/2025 at 9:18 AM, AyvaM said:

I just came here to wonder about that, because checking Draft notifications from last year I just noticed that ALL the Interview requests people posted were for Fiction and Nonfiction and there were no Interview Requests listed for Poetry - simply acceptances and rejections for all three genres at the end of February. I'm trying to figure out if I should be freaking out for not having got a request because i applied for poetry but maybe they don't even interview the poets????

bumping this in case it got missed to see if anyone might have any insights ? this is re U Pittsburgh notifications 

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7 hours ago, Tuxedocat said:

I GOT MY FIRST ACCEPTANCE! In for Poetry at Bowling Green State University! Guys I’m so happy 😭 it’s my first notification of the season!!!

1a/0w/0r/16p

LET'S GOOOOOOOO!!! CONGRATULISIMO!!

[Tuxedocat]

1 hour ago, AyvaM said:

bumping this in case it got missed to see if anyone might have any insights ? this is re U Pittsburgh notifications 

Only data I have to offer is that in 2018 a poet got accepted Feb 1st via phone. 
 

No idea what is on there, but I imagine if poetry doesn’t conduct interviews, you might be hearing soon if you are accepted. But maybe they conduct interviews and no poets for years have recorded that on draft. You should know either way by end of Feb based on previous years, so fingers crossed you get accepted/interviewed! 🤞

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10 hours ago, AyvaM said:

bumping this in case it got missed to see if anyone might have any insights ? this is re U Pittsburgh notifications 

Don’t know if they interview poets, but I do know that some interview requests go out on different days, theres often a range.