Goodness, it's been a long time since I posted! All the way back in February, surrounded by snowstorms, high electric bills, and chocolate hangovers from buying Valentine's Day candy on sale. (Oh, that was just me? Whoops.) Now it's the end of April and the end of my first year as an MFA student. As… Continue reading Ready for Summer: Wrapping Up Year One
Recently I shoveled a foot of snow off my car with my cat's litter dustpan. Well, mostly--I'm 5'3", so when I was finished, my Kia still had a fin in the middle of its roof that I couldn't reach. What's funny, sort of, is that my mother had said the day before Snowmageddon hit Kentucky… Continue reading Snow and Fire
Last night, I had my first workshop of the semester. Manuel Gonzales is teaching this time around. Because our class didn't meet until so late in January (most classes started on the 14th), we spent half an hour introducing ourselves and our work, then jumped straight into two focused hours of workshop. An upbeat atmosphere,… Continue reading Let’s Break Things: New Year, New Workshop
For the next two months we'll be asking some of our first year contributors to talk about the post application period and how they dealt with it last year. What did you do to get through the post application period? I signed up to take a self-defense class. It was my last semester of undergrad, so it… Continue reading So You’re Waiting to Hear Back from MFA Programs: Post Application Advice With Sarah Abbott
When I started thinking about writing my November blog post, it felt unreal. (And I'm not just using that adjective because I've been reading The Waste Land. Nope. Okay, maybe a little...) Folks, I am almost finished with my first semester at the University of Kentucky. I'm almost 25% finished with my MFA program (I… Continue reading Chapters, Papers, and Grading (Oh My!)
