Right-y-o.  I've got a bunch of schools I will be applying to, and have been working on applications and such.  One of my top choices is University of Florida, and I recently sat down with one of the deans of my college to chat about grad school in general, but it turns out he actually did his doctorate at Florida as well (in a different subject, ( Read more... )

As most of you know, applying to graduate school is expensive.  I've got it down to six creative writing programs of varying competitiveness and acceptance rates, but for the most part, they all have good reputations.  However, one of them has been called into question, and I'd like to know if you guys could give me some words of wisdom ( Read more... )

For the creative writing MFA application, Columbia wants a 1,000 word essay responding to a work of literature in my concentration, written within the past ten years.  So, fiction.  I was going to submit a paper I wrote about House of Leaves, but I'm 99% sure that was written more than ten years ago.  But anyway ( Read more... )

So, for about the past week, I've been studying at least two hours a day on my GRE workbook (Kaplan), and so far, while I've improved a little bit, I'm getting nervous about whether or not I'll be ready enough to do well on test day, which will probably be sometime in October.  I do fine on things like the reading questions and sentence completion ( Read more... )

Hi! I've been watching this community for awhile and I need to ask for your help! I want to get my MA/MFA in Creative Writing and they need a statement of purpose. I was hoping for some feedback - I don't know anyone physically who could help me out. (And the more I look at it, the more I lose my confidence...) I've been using The Creative ( Read more... )

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So remember how last week I asked questions about Medieval Art History program?  I've been spending the better part of this last week trying to decide between an MFA in creative writing and a PhD in art history, because I'm currently about to finish a BA in creative writing but I'm also very, very interested in art history.  Right now I'm leading ( Read more... )

Written for the MFA in writing for children at Simmons College (replaced with second draft) They say to discuss your writing process, any works in progress and your goals.

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Hey everyone.

I'll be graduating with a BA in English next spring.  My concentration is creative writing.  I want to get a MA or MFA and eventually a PhD, but the type of program I particulary want I can't seem to find.  I'm looking for a good school that offers a MA in publishing and/or editing, or at least a certification program along side a ( Read more... )

Hello. I'm looking to apply for a (post-graduate) fellowship in creative writing--fiction. I know about the Steinbeck and Stegner fellowships--what other ones are out there? I tried blindly searching on-line, but I didn't come up with much. Could someone point me in the right direction?

Thanks!