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Working Through Despair and Blockage

September 24, 2018 by Mariam Said | News

By Mariam Said MFA Program Assistant When I first started applying to MFA programs a little more than a year and a half ago, it was for the purpose of finding a writing community. I was in the middle of my second year of teaching, and I was miserable, I wasn’t writing, and I wanted

One Year In: What I’ve Learned About the MFA in Creative Writing

September 4, 2018 by Meg Boyles | News

By Meg Boyles MFA Program Assistant A year ago, I started the MFA in Creative Writing program at Chapman University. I thought an MFA program would be like one really long, fantastic workshop. Summer workshops I had taken before showed me that the creative community, the diverse classes, and the serious assignments shaped me into