MFA Creative Writing

Happy International Barbershop Quarter Day! That’s April 11. Are you in a barbershop quartet? Me neither. Would you care to be in one? Me neither. Do they even perform in barbershops? I don’t know. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a real barbershop quartet. I’ve only ever seen them on film and television. I don’t […]

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Korean poet extraordinaire Kim Yideum will read Wednesday, April 13, 2016 at the Hammes Bookstore on Notre Dame’s campus. Yideum will be reading simultaneously with one of her translators, Ji Yoon Lee, a recent graduate of the Notre Dame MFA in Poetry. They will be reading from Yideum’s Cheer Up Femme Fatale, recently published in English […]

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Come on out to the 4th Annual Wham! Bam! Poetry Slam! at the Snite Museum of Art on April 5th, 2016! The event starts at 5:00 pm and is free and open to the public! A poetry slam is a competitive event in which individual poets perform their work and are judged by random members […]

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In one word the answer is TERMINAL! A Masters in Fine Arts is a terminal degree. A PhD is a terminal degree but a Masters degree is not equivalent to an MFA or a PhD. Wear, use, and remember the letters with pride.

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Sami Schalk ’10 told us about one major benefit to getting her MFA at Notre Dame: “I have been telling a lot of folks recently how much getting the MFA has benefited me in the dissertation writing process. I have no hang-ups about showing my work to people, writing or revising in ways that many […]

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I quote our stunning faculty member, Joyelle McSweeney, “Fun as football is for all of us poets, can we maybe discard the idea that MFA programs are rivals trying to push each other out of the rankings, rather than allies trying to make as much space in this lousy world for writing and art as […]

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