I'm cheating a bit--I did not apply this year, but I'm going to next January. I'm posting here to see if anyone applied to the University of Oregon (my top choice), and if they would be willing to drop me some information/advice about that program specifically. Thanks!
University of Massachusetts at Amherst University of Minnesota at Minneapolis University of Texas at Austin Brown University Cornell University Washington University in St. Louis University of Michigan Syracuse University Indiana University at Bloomington Iowa Writer's Workshop Hollins University University of Oregon at Eugene Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge Johns Hopkins University
My list is a bit different than most of the posters here. I've applied to schools in the SF Bay Area only (for many reasons, but the biggest one being love...for the area and a certain person). It seems ALL my shcools don't notify applicants till mid-March so, needless to say I am dying of anxiety!! And it's gonna be a long time comin'
@Sarah Allen: I applied to University of Oregon. If you have any questions about the application process, feel free to hit me up in the mailbag or at kelewin@gmail.com
Also, I know I posted my list once here and once on the facebook group (as Kat in both places) before I'd finished applying, so I'll refrain from posting again, just to save Seth's peace of mind. :-)
Brown Columbia Cornell Indiana Iowa Johns Hopkins NYU Michigan University of Nevada-Las Vegas Penn State School of the Art Institute of Chicago Syracuse Texas- Austin UC- Irvine Vanderbilt Virginia West Virginia Western Michigan
Iowa UT Austin, Michener UT Austin (for the MA in creative writing) Syracuse Virginia Arizona State Cornell Brown Michigan
I'm going nuts with anticipation. I think I'd consent to an afternoon of waterboarding if it meant I could find out right now. cheney said it's not real torture anyway, and cheney's never been wrong before. i think it might be worth it
1. Colorado State University, Fort Collins 2. George Mason University 3. Portland State University 4. University of Colorado, Boulder 5. Iowa Writers' Workshop 6. Columbia College Chicago 7. University of Oregon, Eugene 8. University of California, Riverside 9. California State University, San Bernardino 10. University of Nevada, Las Vegas 11. Otis College (accepted via phone today)
Urbanist, I honestly had just finished typing out the schools I had applied to during my lunch break when I got the call! Otis was the last school I listed so I added the tid bit at the end. Such a bad journalist I am.
I posted once before, but now I get to post my FINAL list because I sent my last application last night. Feels good! This is the same list I posted a few weeks ago, except that I decided not to apply to Brooklyn.
Here we go (in no order): Brown UC Irvine Iowa Hunter UC Riverside Stony Brook Southampton St. Mary's College The New School
Washington University in St. Louis Indiana University Oregon State University Georgia College & State University Georgia State University Boston University Warren Wilson College
The Red Earth Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing at Oklahoma City University offers you the opportunity to escape your busy life to pursue your writing passions. Housed at a private university in an urban yet quiet setting, the program connects you with experienced creative and professional writers who will nurture your creative talent in workshops, peer groups, and individual instruction. The Red Earth MFA program gives you a chance to concentrate on your writing while working with like-minded communicators who, like you, wish to grow creatively and professionally in a collaborative environment.
Tailored Coursework
The Red Earth MFA is a two-year graduate program. It includes five residencies, one each summer and each winter plus one at the end of the program, for periods of approximately ten days. Students work with faculty mentors to create a manuscript-length work of creative prose in fiction, non-fiction, poetry, screenwriting, or another creative genre with the approval of the program director. The program allows students to continue with their professional lives as they devote short amounts of time to the residencies and then do the their class work remotely from home with the guidance of a faculty mentor.
At the residencies students not only attend classes but also work with a faculty mentor within small workshop groups with their peers. Students will complete twelve hours of course work each fall and spring semester for two years, for a total of 48 hours. Students finish four semesters of off-campus study by completing both packet work with their individual mentor as well as participating in online workshops, fostering a community of writers that is sustained beyond the residencies while allowing the student to return home during the semester’s coursework. The final residency will include a public reading and defense of the thesis.
Strands:
Unique to the Red Earth MFA are the professional writing and pedagogy strands. Students may elect to study with professional writers and writing instructors in online formats during the semester to learn about editing, professional communications, and teaching writing. With approval of the program director and their faculty mentor, students can also elect to do individual study with their faculty mentor in the professional writing or pedagogy strands for credit.
Students who elect to concentrate in either the professional writing or pedagogy strand take a minimum of six credit hours in either concentration. Students can also fashion their own strand concentration with their faculty advisor(s) with the permission of the advisor(s) and program director and do not have to participate in the strands if they choose to focus exclusively on their creative writing.
Please contact MFA Director Danita Berg at drberg @ okcu.edu if you have questions!
Michener UT WashU U Wisconnsin U Minnesota U Nevada (Vegas!) Iowa Writers' Workshop U Arizona U New Orleans U Pittsburgh U Kansas OleMiss McNeese Wyoming U North Carolina Willmington
I've noticed not too many people are applying to MFA programs in both genres. I'd be interested to hear the struggles of others who had to do that.
For me it included getting two different sets of 3 recommendations (probably unnecessary, but I did it anyway), and then of course the assembling of two different writing portfolios, and two types of statements. It wound up being a pretty huge pain, actually, and I'm not sure I'll do that again next year, if I don't have any luck this time around.
Iowa and Montana allowed for application to multiple genres, so I sent them both my application packets.
Anyone else enjoying the fun of two different genres of applications?
Poetry:
George Mason Southern Illinois Cornell Michigan Wisconsin Oregon Idaho Virginia Tech Iowa Montana
Fiction:
Wyoming Syracuse Bowling Green State Mississippi UC Irvine Minnesota Iowa Montana
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I'm cheating a bit--I did not apply this year, but I'm going to next January. I'm posting here to see if anyone applied to the University of Oregon (my top choice), and if they would be willing to drop me some information/advice about that program specifically. Thanks!
Sarah Allen
(my creative writing blog)
Poetry:
University of Michigan
Brown University
Columbia College Chicago
University of Wisconsin-Madison
I'm assuming it'll be another month before I hear anything . . .
FICTION:
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
University of Minnesota at Minneapolis
University of Texas at Austin
Brown University
Cornell University
Washington University in St. Louis
University of Michigan
Syracuse University
Indiana University at Bloomington
Iowa Writer's Workshop
Hollins University
University of Oregon at Eugene
Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge
Johns Hopkins University
As of right now...
Fiction:
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Columbia College Chicago
My list is a bit different than most of the posters here. I've applied to schools in the SF Bay Area only (for many reasons, but the biggest one being love...for the area and a certain person). It seems ALL my shcools don't notify applicants till mid-March so, needless to say I am dying of anxiety!! And it's gonna be a long time comin'
Fiction:
USF
SFSU
St. Mary's
Mills
CCA
SJSU
@Sarah Allen: I applied to University of Oregon. If you have any questions about the application process, feel free to hit me up in the mailbag or at kelewin@gmail.com
Also, I know I posted my list once here and once on the facebook group (as Kat in both places) before I'd finished applying, so I'll refrain from posting again, just to save Seth's peace of mind. :-)
Okay. Here's my absurdly long list for fiction:
Virginia
Alabama
Minnesota
Cornell
Iowa
Notre Dame
Syracuse
Oregon
Vanderbilt
Brown
Purdue
Washington U St. Louis
UCSD
Indiana
this time without long-winded, inappropriately-placed question about LOR.
Very short list, for CNF:
George Mason
UNC Wilmington
Notre Dame (prose)
/goes back to obsessively checking gmail
poetry
Brooklyn College
Columbia College Chicago
The New School
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Fiction:
Columbia College Chicago
Northern Michigan
Michigan
Iowa
Brown
New Hampshire
Vanderbilt
Eastern Michigan (MA in CW-Fiction)
I guess it's never too late to leave a list...
Fiction:
Brown
Columbia
Cornell
Indiana
Iowa
Johns Hopkins
NYU
Michigan
University of Nevada-Las Vegas
Penn State
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Syracuse
Texas- Austin
UC- Irvine
Vanderbilt
Virginia
West Virginia
Western Michigan
University of Minnesota
University of Michigan
University of Iowa
all in Fiction. Yeep!
Poetry:
Cornell
UMass Amherst
Indiana
Purdue
Iowa
Washington St. Louis
Indiana
UVA
UNC Greensboro
Oregon
Fiction:
Columbia
Hunter
Stonecoast
Vermont
Antioch
Warren Wilson
Bennington
Pacific
Fiction.
Iowa
UT Austin, Michener
UT Austin (for the MA in creative writing)
Syracuse
Virginia
Arizona State
Cornell
Brown
Michigan
I'm going nuts with anticipation. I think I'd consent to an afternoon of waterboarding if it meant I could find out right now. cheney said it's not real torture anyway, and cheney's never been wrong before. i think it might be worth it
I'm kind of like @Anna, in that I only applied to full residency programs in the state of Florida.
For Poetry:
UF
FSU
USF
UCF
FAU
FIU
and Miami
-UCF should be notifying next weekend (gulp)
For fiction, in vague order of dear-god-please:
1. Michigan
2. Cornell
3. Iowa
4. Wash U, St. Louis
5. Florida
6. Brown
7. UC Irvine
in poetry.
iowa
syracuse
oregon
washington u (in st.louis)
indiana
vanderbilt
lsu
montana
south carolina
minnesota
virginia
hunter
Poetry:
NYU
The New School
Hunter College
UT Austin - Michener
San Francisco State
California College of the Arts
Saint Mary's College
Won't hear for another month, which is groovy, because I have an enormous research paper to finish. Nice distraction from the stress.
Fiction:
Rutgers (Newark)
Hopkins
Iowa
Indiana
Syracuse
Penn State
UMass (Amherst)
CNF:
Iowa
Hollins
Minnesota
Arizona
Pittsburgh
Fiction:
Alabama
University of Florida
Indiana
Notre Dame
UNC Greensboro
UNC Wilmington
Vanderbilt
Hollins
George Mason
My list (for fiction), in order of application deadline:
Colorado State
Alabama
Michigan
Syracuse
Colorado at Boulder
Hollins
Florida
Idaho
Boise State
West Virginia
Wyoming
SIUC
Mississippi
McNeese
Poetry:
University of Michigan
Austin- Michener
Houston
Washington University
Vanderbilt
University of Oregon
Cornell
Syracuse
Good luck everyone!
Fiction:
UVA
West Virginia
Syracuse
Iowa
Indiana
Washington, St. Louis
Minnesota
UNC, Wilmington
Poetry:
Michigan
Syracuse
Brooklyn
Columbia Chicago
McNeese
my little underdog schools. all CNF:
minnesota state @ moorhead
minnesota state @ mankato
hamline
florida atlantic
Poetry, in a kind of order:
Minnesota
Iowa
Cornell
Colorado--Boulder
Indiana
Pittsburgh
Purdue
Missouri (PhD)
Fiction:
Miami Ohio -MA
Old Dominion
University of Michigan
Iowa
Houston
Oregon
Bowling Green
Notre Dame
Southern Illinois
UIUC
Fiction:
Brown
Syracuse
SIUC
Washington Univ.-St.Louis
Minnesota
Iowa
ASU
Colorado
Indiana
Good luck all!
Daj - saw that Pittsburgh is on your list. I'm actually there right now for my undergrad. I like it. :)
Fiction/Creative Non-Fiction (where offered)
1. Colorado State University, Fort Collins
2. George Mason University
3. Portland State University
4. University of Colorado, Boulder
5. Iowa Writers' Workshop
6. Columbia College Chicago
7. University of Oregon, Eugene
8. University of California, Riverside
9. California State University, San Bernardino
10. University of Nevada, Las Vegas
11. Otis College (accepted via phone today)
Poetry:
Old Dominion University
University of Maryland
Virginia Commonwealth University
UMass Amherst
Vanderbilt University
McNeese State University
Jackie: congratulations on Otis, and way to bury the lede!
Poetry:
Johns Hopkins
Hollins
Virginia
South Carolina
Virginia Tech
Oregon
Indiana
Minnesota
Boise State
Iowa
Syracuse
Massachusetts, Amherst
For fiction, in no specific order...
Colorado
Arkansas
Washington U (St. Louis)
Iowa
LSU
Ole Miss
Minnesota
Virginia
UCSD
I applied to 9 schools total- 4 full residency programs and 5 low residency programs. All were for poetry.
Brooklyn College
Hunter College
University of Iowa
University of California- Irvine
Bennington College
Pacific Lutheran University
Spalding University
Vermont College of Fine Arts
Warren Wilson College
Urbanist, I honestly had just finished typing out the schools I had applied to during my lunch break when I got the call! Otis was the last school I listed so I added the tid bit at the end. Such a bad journalist I am.
I posted once before, but now I get to post my FINAL list because I sent my last application last night. Feels good! This is the same list I posted a few weeks ago, except that I decided not to apply to Brooklyn.
Here we go (in no order):
Brown
UC Irvine
Iowa
Hunter
UC Riverside
Stony Brook Southampton
St. Mary's College
The New School
Fiction
UMass Amherst (admitted 2/3/11 by phone)
Brown
Cornell
Wash U St. Louis
NYU
Syracuse
Columbia
Iowa
Montana
Emerson
UNH
UMass Boston
Hunter
Here's my list of applications for fiction:
UMass Amherst
Columbia
Sarah Lawrence
Boston University
Good luck everyone!
Here is my list for poetry:
Washington University in St. Louis
Indiana University
Oregon State University
Georgia College & State University
Georgia State University
Boston University
Warren Wilson College
MFA Playwriting:
Brown
Yale
NYU
Northwestern
Iowa
UCSD
UCLA
Rutgers
:)
My list, FICTION:
UMass--Amherst
Iowa
Minnesota
Virginia
Syracuse
Montaana
Oregon
Washington Univeristy--St. Louis
UCSD
South Carolina
A new program for you to consider:
www.okcu.edu/english/RedEarthMFA
It’s Your Time
The Red Earth Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing at Oklahoma City University offers you the opportunity to escape your busy life to pursue your writing passions. Housed at a private university in an urban yet quiet setting, the program connects you with experienced creative and professional writers who will nurture your creative talent in workshops, peer groups, and individual instruction. The Red Earth MFA program gives you a chance to concentrate on your writing while working with like-minded communicators who, like you, wish to grow creatively and professionally in a collaborative environment.
Tailored Coursework
The Red Earth MFA is a two-year graduate program. It includes five residencies, one each summer and each winter plus one at the end of the program, for periods of approximately ten days. Students work with faculty mentors to create a manuscript-length work of creative prose in fiction, non-fiction, poetry, screenwriting, or another creative genre with the approval of the program director. The program allows students to continue with their professional lives as they devote short amounts of time to the residencies and then do the their class work remotely from home with the guidance of a faculty mentor.
At the residencies students not only attend classes but also work with a faculty mentor within small workshop groups with their peers. Students will complete twelve hours of course work each fall and spring semester for two years, for a total of 48 hours. Students finish four semesters of off-campus study by completing both packet work with their individual mentor as well as participating in online workshops, fostering a community of writers that is sustained beyond the residencies while allowing the student to return home during the semester’s coursework. The final residency will include a public reading and defense of the thesis.
Strands:
Unique to the Red Earth MFA are the professional writing and pedagogy strands. Students may elect to study with professional writers and writing instructors in online formats during the semester to learn about editing, professional communications, and teaching writing. With approval of the program director and their faculty mentor, students can also elect to do individual study with their faculty mentor in the professional writing or pedagogy strands for credit.
Students who elect to concentrate in either the professional writing or pedagogy strand take a minimum of six credit hours in either concentration. Students can also fashion their own strand concentration with their faculty advisor(s) with the permission of the advisor(s) and program director and do not have to participate in the strands if they choose to focus exclusively on their creative writing.
Please contact MFA Director Danita Berg at drberg @ okcu.edu if you have questions!
Fiction:
NYU
Hunter
Brooklyn
Queens
New School
Sarah Lawrence
Hollins
Emerson
Poetry:
UVA
Cornell
Virginia Tech
Hollins University
Poetry:
Johns Hopkins
Massachusetts, Amherst
NYU
Iowa
Virginia
Washington University, St. Louis
Minnesota
Indiana
Oregon
Seth, I added McNeese to my list. Sent my sample there tonight :)
Updated list:
Iowa
Michigan
Brown
Vanderbilt
Northern Michigan
Columbia College Chicago
New Hampshire
McNeese
Florida Atlantic
Woops, in fiction. :)
I added McNeese to my list (because their app process is the balls!)
Fiction:
Iowa
Michigan
Vandy
Wash U
Bama
Indiana
Notre Dame
SUIC
Ole Miss
McNeese
poetry:
iowa
sothern illinois
washington u (st. louis)
indiana
boise state
wyoming
arizona state
virginia
creative non-fiction:
arizona
pittsburgh
new school
iowa
minnesota
Poetry:
Michener UT
WashU
U Wisconnsin
U Minnesota
U Nevada (Vegas!)
Iowa Writers' Workshop
U Arizona
U New Orleans
U Pittsburgh
U Kansas
OleMiss
McNeese
Wyoming
U North Carolina Willmington
I've noticed not too many people are applying to MFA programs in both genres. I'd be interested to hear the struggles of others who had to do that.
For me it included getting two different sets of 3 recommendations (probably unnecessary, but I did it anyway), and then of course the assembling of two different writing portfolios, and two types of statements. It wound up being a pretty huge pain, actually, and I'm not sure I'll do that again next year, if I don't have any luck this time around.
Iowa and Montana allowed for application to multiple genres, so I sent them both my application packets.
Anyone else enjoying the fun of two different genres of applications?
Poetry:
George Mason
Southern Illinois
Cornell
Michigan
Wisconsin
Oregon
Idaho
Virginia Tech
Iowa
Montana
Fiction:
Wyoming
Syracuse
Bowling Green State
Mississippi
UC Irvine
Minnesota
Iowa
Montana
Very interesting post! Thanks for keeping us informed.
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