Image: Lynn Friedman In Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, whenever Alice stumbles upon a bottle labeled “Drink Me” or “Eat Me,” she ingests them with the naïveté of a child who consumes everything in her path, unaware of how they may change her in ways she doesn’t expect. I was much like Alice… Continue reading Read, Write, Ruminate, Repeat
photo credit: Picasso's Le Rêve (The Dream), 1932 "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up." - Pablo Picasso When I was growing up, I wrote through everything. What I mean is, back then, I wrote through all of my childhood fears, disappointments, and shame. I… Continue reading Write Like You’re Still A Kid
Image: Beate Meier It's our third annual notifications post! Below, you'll find information about creative writing acceptance, rejection and waitlist notifications; MA and low-res programs are included. We collect this information from Gradcafe. We cannot guarantee the data is 100 percent accurate as it is user submitted and unverifiable. Please let us know if a program… Continue reading 2017 Notifications
When people ask you where you are from, practice a different answer each time. Give the name of a region, an adjacent town, the street you last lived on. Take each place and hold yourself against its light to see where the edges meet. In January, move the writing desk to the other side of… Continue reading Winter Break
Image: Francisco Daum Reservoir Lit and Anthropoid Co are currently running an Indiegogo campaign to help pay for an AWP book fair table and promotional materials. Since The MFA Years has a lot of crossover between the two journals (Kenzie Allen, Minda Honey, Cady Vishniac and myself) some of our contributors have volunteered to review a… Continue reading Manuscript Review and Mentorships Available from The MFA Years Contributors
