MFA Connect

Hi All. This from Martina at MFA Connect:

For anyone looking into, or already enrolled in an MFA, we are a group of students who have started a collective online, where you can research all current programs, organized by state. As of right now this resource can save perspective students time by providing an easily researchable database. In the future we hope to have more personal information available, collected from students and graduates from each program. We aim to provide as much relevant information for perspective students as we can, and the goal is to make this information as personal as possible.

This is however only part of what the collective is about. The other goal of this project is to allow MFA students a chance to share news, knowledge, and resources. We hope that the project will grow into a substantial online creative writing magazine, written by creative writing students. Since many of us in these programs will at one point be responsible for educating others on the craft of writing, we encourage as many students as possible to use the collective as a way of spreading ideas which will be useful to all interested readers of the website.

So, we are calling on any MFA students who might be interested to help out with the collective, who would like to share experiences, news, or even a post about the writing process. All MFA students and faculty are welcome to be a part of this project, and so is all relevant information. Just follow our submission guidelines online.

Please visit us at: http://www.mfaconnect.com

We hope this project will provide a valuable resource for those interested in the MFA experience. If you have any questions or would like to help out, please contact us. We would love to hear from you. If you are an MFA student, please forward this information on to your fellow students, and let them know about the collective.

Grad Insider

Sheba sends this along from Grad Insider:

Gradinsider.com is a recently launched graduate school review site. Its aim is to provide prospective graduate students with an inside look into graduate programs in business, creative writing, film, law, and medicine. The graduate creative programs on the site include MFA and Masters programs in creative writing (both in the United States and abroad).

Prospective MFA students can search for graduate writing programs by country, region, state, full or low residency, and genre. They can read reviews of these programs written by current students and alumni and see how the reviewers rated their programs on categories ranging from reputation and quality of faculty to cost of living and the dating scene. With its handy search function and inside perspective on graduate creative writing programs, gradinsider.com is a valuable resource for any prospective MFA writing student.

(note: we just launched a week and a half ago, and are working on getting reviews up. As the number of reviews increase, so will the accuracy of our top 5 ratings)

Stanford Creative Writing Courses

Hi Everyone. The Stanford Online Creative Writing Classes are filling as we speak. There are still a few of them open including Travel Writing, Magazine Writing, Memoir, and Fiction Writing.

Check out the offerings at Stanford Continuing Studies.

The NEA chimes in--employment or Unemployment--for writers

The only way forward is looking up. I'm running for the chocolate chip cookies in the snacks isle because some things never change. Knowing is half the battle. Read about it here:http://www.pw.org/content/unemployment_rate_among_writers_hit_66_percent_2008