2025 Creative Writing MFA Applicants Forum

[beet_root]

  On 3/18/2025 at 1:55 AM, decayingballads21 said:

on paper this program was perfect but I just can’t for some reason look past these weird vibes with the faculty.

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Can you expand on the “weird vibes” you sensed? How did you even get a good enough feel of the faculty for that to happen? I can hardly find any info on the profs in most programs.

[rapunzel]

  On 3/18/2025 at 1:55 AM, decayingballads21 said:

just turned down an offer that I really wanted to make work, in literally my dream location and with a lot of really great program components… but ultimately I didn’t think that the faculty there were the right fit for me and my work and I believe I’ll get more/better support and mentorship at a different program. on paper this program was perfect but I just can’t for some reason look past these weird vibes with the faculty. 

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if you don't mind sharing, what program / what faculty member(s)? and what were the weird vibes?

[misssalem]

Got my WashU rejection. Expected but a little bummed. I only have Brown left now so I'm just going to operate on hope and delusion. I'll let you know if that works. 

[VOID DARLING]

ok friends let's bet: money on brown on today, tomorrow or thursday?

[gradschoolpspspsps]

I also got my WashU rejection. I'll vote for Brown today.

[obvswithoatmilk]

waking up to a WashU rejection, after they said in an info session that decisions would be out in late january, was a doozy. also waiting on NYU which atp i also think is a soft rejection (a nasty concept, btw.)

 

sending good vibes to y’all waiting on brown and other schools ❤️

[analog_e]

🤎🟤🟫🕯️🟫🟤🤎

[zaira]

  On 3/18/2025 at 2:32 PM, analog_e said:

🤎🟤🟫🕯️🟫🟤🤎

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I'm once again rooting for you with all my might! Brown. Or. Bust. 

[Hjanep]

Ok got my UVic rejection. Ready to hear from Brown and Montana definitively please. 

[everything bagel lover]

University of Oregon fiction rejection just dropped in draft

Edit to add: @analog_e I'm rooting for you!! 🤎🟤🟫 

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[pananoprodigy]

Just got my U of Oregon rejection (haven't reported it in draft yet)

[nauseated]

  On 3/18/2025 at 2:32 PM, analog_e said:

🤎🟤🟫🕯️🟫🟤🤎

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rooting for u so massively ❤️ 

[glowingbrightly]

  On 3/18/2025 at 2:32 PM, analog_e said:

🤎🟤🟫🕯️🟫🟤🤎

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💩💩💩🙏💩💩💩

 

[honeytreasures]

  On 3/18/2025 at 2:07 AM, seah0rse said:

I asked a magic 8 ball if Brown would release decisions tomorrow and the answer was some variation of yes. I also asked about Wednesday and it said yes in a different way. I did not ask about Thursday or Friday because it seemed to be as unreliable as checking my portal ten times an hour.

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I’ve been asking the magic ball too 🤣🤣🤣

[glowingbrightly]

  On 3/18/2025 at 5:27 PM, honeytreasures said:

I’ve been asking the magic ball too 🤣🤣🤣

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y’all need to step it up to tarot ✨

[squid05]

  On 3/18/2025 at 5:31 PM, glowingbrightly said:

y’all need to step it up to tarot ✨

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I Ching is s tier divination tbh  

[seah0rse]

  On 3/18/2025 at 5:31 PM, glowingbrightly said:

y’all need to step it up to tarot ✨

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the magic 8 ball also told me months ago that I’d get into Brown but I’m afraid that a tarot reading might reveal too much about the MFA journey as a whole 😅

[zaira]

  On 3/18/2025 at 5:31 PM, glowingbrightly said:

y’all need to step it up to tarot ✨

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Had my deck sitting next to me. Asked what it thought about Brown. Pulled a Judgment in reverse. Do with that what you will 

[glowingbrightly]

  On 3/18/2025 at 5:33 PM, squid05 said:

I Ching is s tier divination tbh  

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  On 3/18/2025 at 5:38 PM, seah0rse said:

the magic 8 ball also told me months ago that I’d get into Brown but I’m afraid that a tarot reading might reveal too much about the MFA journey as a whole 😅

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Thnx I will have to check out I Ching!!

 

😂😂 I like the motherpeace tarot deck which is all about feminine spirituality and sitting with contradiction and uncertainty—perfect for the MFA journey! 

[exvat]

Candles vs. tarot vs. I Ching vs. Magic 8 Ball

Pretty sure Murakami + magic flower + cat worked* for me 👇

  On 2/17/2025 at 7:32 PM, exvat said:

Reading Murakami and vaping a bowl in hopes that my cat will look up at me and oracularly speak my application decisions ✨

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*Lol

[zaira]

  On 3/18/2025 at 5:58 PM, exvat said:

Candles vs. tarot vs. I Ching vs. Magic 8 Ball

Pretty sure Murakami + magic flower + cat worked* for me 👇

*Lol

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Can you ask your cat about Brown? Or alternatively I'll take a sentence from a random page of Murakami and try to decipher its meaning. I think collectively we can get to the bottom of this 

[thelovelyunkown]

For me, one of the most frustrating aspects of this process is writing a piece that would've slayed the sample after already submitting. 

[exvat]

  On 3/18/2025 at 6:14 PM, zaira said:

Can you ask your cat about Brown? Or alternatively I'll take a sentence from a random page of Murakami and try to decipher its meaning. I think collectively we can get to the bottom of this 

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Yes, I bet we can. But I think the entrance stone has the be open or something. And the proper respects paid to the forest, but only in a dream.

[KennyK]

Has there been any posts on draft from San francisco state university?

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[glowingbrightly]

  On 3/18/2025 at 6:20 PM, thelovelyunkown said:

For me, one of the most frustrating aspects of this process is writing a piece that would've slayed the sample after already submitting. 

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yes! I’ve been rather prolific these last few agonizing weeks and generated a whole new chapbook after my last one took me like a year to develop