I teach at an MFA.
I was also delisted after being waitlisted for an MFA at a prestigious uni bc I the prof said I could not be admitted if I wrote “that infantile Arthur Clarke stuff” and I said “you dropped the ‘sir’ from his name. He was knighted for services to literature.”
Was invited to go.
I was also delisted after being waitlisted for an MFA at a prestigious uni bc I the prof said I could not be admitted if I wrote “that infantile Arthur Clarke stuff” and I said “you dropped the ‘sir’ from his name. He was knighted for services to literature.”
Was invited to go.
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Sir Arthur CharlesClarke C.B.E.
(Her Majesty’s approval of this Knighthood was signified on 31st December 1997.)
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/L-55950-1001
IMHO, Sir Arthur C. Clarke’s words are more important today than when he was alive.
Just saying…
Nothing wrong with that, but there's stunningly good writing in any genre. Plus Sturgeon's Law.
I feel like a healthy chunk of mainstream literary books these days contain some genre elements, possibly even half of the big books. You'd be foolish to exclude such a huge part of literary fiction from a graduate program
Like how insecure do you have to be to refuse to see greatness because he drew the New Mutants. lol. lmao. Keep it.
Deserves a follow and a read. I’m going to start with stranger in the citadel I think.
After I finish rereading The Dead Zone with my kids-family mandate to read a book together over holiday and - with the world as it is, thought that one appropriate.
The head of that grad program was visibly PISSED
And I’ve way leveled up as a result.
Have other people who write what you write studied there recently?
Some programs are good. Others, not so much.
And I'd never say a faculty should all be currently published writers, but a faculty without any may not be helpful.
Complicated by the fact I’ve since learned some amazing writers struggle to teach and some amazing teachers may not be top of their field? 🤷♂️
Some editors can, though they cannot write.