If you’re currently enrolled in an MFA program and want to write about your experience for a wide audience, this may be your chance.
Not for this site — well, maybe (send me an email or something) — but rather for Writer’s Digest’s blog MFA Confidential. They’re holding a contest and it seemed interesting enough to bring me out of hibernation to link to it. Read more about the contest at Writer’s Digest.
If you make it, let me know. And actually if you’d like to blog for After the MFA, let’s talk…
Now that I’m four years past the official culmination of my MFA in creative writing program, when people ask me “what would you have done differently?” I feel like I can actually answer it with a level of objectivity to be useful.
I’ve had conversations with people enough times to know a bit better how to respond to the question as well. So here’s my attempt.
There is only one thing I would have done differently: picked a different school.
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Hi. Just wanted to send out a quick thank you and apology to the people who have left comments on the site over the past couple months.
Because of a plague of spam I had forced all comments to go through approval before going on the site. I didn’t realize people had actually been saying stuff I would have loved to have seen. Damn spam.
Thanks again, for the comments on my last taking stock post. Big thank you for the thoughts and encouragement.
Things are still as busy as ever, but I hope to start writing a bit more on here in the future.
