2025 Creative Writing MFA Applicants Forum

[Chex]

45 minutes ago, prufrock_ said:

got the call from rutgers-camden, i'm in. 😎

 

OMG, Pru! This is so ducking amazing, I've heard wonderful things about that program. Congratulations!!! 🎉 🎉 🎉 

[exvat]

1 hour ago, prufrock_ said:

got the call from rutgers-camden, i'm in. 😎

 

Pruuuuuuu___!!!! 🎉🎉🎉

[Chex]

Man, Pigeon Pie on the draft spreadsheet is showing out! 🔥 

[gradschoolpspspsps]

Back from field trip. No news from Brown. In fact, no news from any school. Universe, come on, that would have been so ironic. 

 

Waiting on: Boise State, Brown, Mississippi, Notre Dame, Pittsburgh, SIU, USC, WVU

[FFFRANK]

Feels like Camden is already done. This marks the tragic end of my application season lol

[everything bagel lover]

1 hour ago, prufrock_ said:

got the call from rutgers-camden, i'm in. 😎

 

HOLY SHITTTTT LETS GO PRUFROCK CONGRULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!

[kulfikat]

Okay Brown Poetry acceptance on Draft. 

[bucket]

4 minutes ago, kulfikat said:

Okay Brown Poetry acceptance on Draft. 

quaking in my mf boots right now…

[kulfikat]

4 minutes ago, bucket said:

quaking in my mf boots right now…

Yep... I applied in fiction, I think my uncertainty is gonna hold a little longer, which is really scary. 

[bucket]

3 minutes ago, kulfikat said:

Yep... I applied in fiction, I think my uncertainty is gonna hold a little longer, which is really scary. 

same here 🫠 at least we have SOME whisperings from them now, the radio silence across genres has been brutal

[Hjanep]

For people who are the same sick as me but actually on a computer, was Brown poetry same day as fiction last year?

[seah0rse]

Just now, Hjanep said:

For people who are the same sick as me but actually on a computer, was Brown poetry same day as fiction last year?

having obsessively checked the data over the month, I’m pretty sure they were often notified on different days

[Chex]

4 minutes ago, Hjanep said:

For people who are the same sick as me but actually on a computer, was Brown poetry same day as fiction last year?

They were notified about two days apart, last year. Poetry came first. 

[bucket]

3 minutes ago, seah0rse said:

having obsessively checked the data over the month, I’m pretty sure they were often notified on different days

seconding this! it looks like last year fiction came about two days after poetry

[thelovelyunkown]

May this be the day.

🕯️

Iʻm so tired yaʻll 

[Mystic_Sunshine]

1200 applicants for Brown is willddd.

[zaira]

2 minutes ago, Mystic_Sunshine said:

1200 applicants for Brown is willddd.

Is that the most they've ever had? Kinda seems like it 

[rapunzel]

22 minutes ago, Mystic_Sunshine said:

1200 applicants for Brown is willddd.

maybe it's 1200 total (fiction + poetry + interdisciplinary) ?? i dunno

[Mystic_Sunshine]

9 minutes ago, rapunzel said:

maybe it's 1200 total (fiction + poetry + interdisciplinary) ?? i dunno

Yeah it is. But that is still crazy high. 

[analog_e]

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[_redrabbit7]

17 minutes ago, rapunzel said:

maybe it's 1200 total (fiction + poetry + interdisciplinary) ?? i dunno

It was 1,100 last year. 

[twelveyearoldrat]

a welcome change in topic/ distraction but did anyone submit a short story to the masters review for the contest? been checking my submittable and that’s the only other thing i’ve got goin so

[prufrock_]

thanks gang for all the congrats!!! (i'm not quoting everyones posts cause that'd be obnoxious, and i've been obnoxious enough irl today)

 

[glowingbrightly]

still waiting for brown to reject me but in the meantime, i have a call scheduled in a few hours with my top school for “an update on our admissions process.” hard to imagine this could be bad news but im totally flipping out about it

[Chex]

4 minutes ago, glowingbrightly said:

still waiting for brown to reject me but in the meantime, i have a call scheduled in a few hours with my top school for “an update on our admissions process.” hard to imagine this could be bad news but im totally flipping out about it

Ooh, that sounds promising! Please update us when you get the good news. Congratulations!