The Low-Residency MFA Handbook
The Low-Residency MFA Handbook

Author: Lori A. May

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2011-01-13

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 1441198229

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The Low-Residency MFA Handbook offers prospective graduate students an in-depth preview of low-residency creative writing MFA programs. Interviews with program directors, faculty, alumni, and current students answer the many questions prospective graduates have, including: What happens during the non-residency semester? What are the brief residencies like? What community is established between faculty and fellow students? What opportunities are there for writers to gain pedagogical training through a low-residency format? And, most importantly, is the low-residency model right for you? These questions, and more, are answered in detail. The guide also clarifies the application process and offers application tips from program directors and alumni. It also considers funding, program structures, and unique opportunities such as editorships and assistantships. For prospective graduate students looking for detailed information, The Low-Residency MFA Handbook provides a personalized and genuinely useful overview.

The Creative Writing MFA Handbook
The Creative Writing MFA Handbook

Author: Tom Kealey

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 9780826418432

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Guides prospective graduate students through the difficult process of researching, applying to, and choosing graduate schools in creative writing. This handbook includes special sections about Low-Residency writing programs, PhD programs, publishing in literary journals, and workshop and teaching advice.

The Low-Residency MFA Handbook
The Low-Residency MFA Handbook

Author: Lori A. May

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2011-01-13

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 144119844X

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Provides aspiring Creative Writing graduate students with all the information they need on which low-residency program is best suited to them.

The Creative Writing MFA Handbook, Revised and Updated Edition
The Creative Writing MFA Handbook, Revised and Updated Edition

Author: Tom Kealey

Publisher: Continuum

Published: 2008-10

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13:

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The Creative Writing MFA Handbook guides prospective graduate students through the difficult process of researching, applying to, and choosing graduate schools in creative writing. This second edition updates and builds upon the first edition, which was published in 2005 to great acclaim.

The Poets & Writers Guide to MFA Programs
The Poets & Writers Guide to MFA Programs

Author:

Publisher: Poets & Writers Inc

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 67

ISBN-13:

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This essential handbook, revised and updated for 2010, provides everything you need to know about deciding where and how to apply to the best graduate creative writing programs for you. -The top programs in the United States. -How to decide where to apply. -Advice on preparing your application. -A look at PhD programs in writing. -Tips on becoming a teaching assistant. -How to get the most out of your MFA experience. A collection of articles edited by the staff of Poets & Writers Magazine, this handy resource includes straightforward advice from professionals in the literary field, additional resources to help you choose the best programs to apply to, and an application tracker to keep you organized throughout the process.

High Yella
High Yella

Author: Steve Majors

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2021-10-15

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 0820360325

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They called him “pale faced or mixed race.” They called him “light, bright, almost white.” But most of the time his family called him “high yella.” Steve Majors was the white passing, youngest son growing up in an all-Black family that struggled with poverty, abuse, and generational trauma. High Yella is the poignant account of how he tried to leave his troubled childhood and family behind to create a new identity, only to discover he ultimately needed to return home to truly find himself. And after he and his husband adopt two Black daughters, he must set them on their own path to finding their place in the world by understanding the importance of where they come from. In his remarkable and moving memoir, Majors gathers the shards of a broken past to piece together a portrait of a man on an extraordinary journey toward Blackness, queerness, and parenthood. High Yella delivers its hard-won lessons on love, life, and family with exceptional grace.

The Expectations
The Expectations

Author: Alexander Tilney

Publisher: Back Bay Books

Published: 2020-08-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780316450393

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"The Expectations announces a dazzling new voice in American fiction." --Jennifer Egan, author of Manhattan Beach St. James is an exclusive New England boarding school known for grooming generations of leaders. Ben Weeks is a true insider -- his ancestors helped found St. James, his older brother taught him all the slang, and he's just won a national championship in squash. But after fourteen long years of waiting, Ben arrives at school only to find that the reality of St. James doesn't quite match up with his imaginings. At the same time, his new roommate, Ahmed Al-Khaled, the son of a fabulously wealthy Emirati sheik, can't navigate the unspoken rules of New England blue bloods. Even as Ben and Ahmed struggle to prove themselves in the place they have revered for so long, each of them must face losing it forever. The Expectations is at once a finely drawn portrait of American privilege and a subtle exploration of class, race, and tradition. Above all, it is a tender, sharp, and evocative debut about the pain and treachery of adolescence, and the difficulty--wherever one finds oneself--of truly belonging.

The Insider's Guide to Graduate Degrees in Creative Writing
The Insider's Guide to Graduate Degrees in Creative Writing

Author: Seth Abramson

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Published: 2018

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781350000445

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A brief history of creative writing programs -- Applying to creative writing programs -- Application requirements -- Cohort -- Selectivity -- Cost of living -- Funding -- Student-faculty ratio -- Assistantships -- Curriculum -- Fellowships -- Job placement -- Low-residency programs -- Creative writing doctoral programs -- Applicant and faculty surveys -- Popularity rankings -- Program rankings -- Program features

Writing Popular Fiction
Writing Popular Fiction

Author: Dean Ray Koontz

Publisher: Writers Digest Books

Published: 1973

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9780911654219

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Aspiring novelists are given advice on writing polishing, and marketing mysteries, suspense tales, Westerns, science fiction, and romances