By Margery Hannah
In short, an MFA in Creative Writing & Literature is not recommended. It’s nice networking— many of your instructors will have taught some of the greats and will in fact be some of the greats, but like all creative spaces there is a fantastic degree of subjectiveness to which the weak hinge their self-worth. A number of would-be writers leave MFA programs abruptly after receiving criticism, the abandoned chapters haunting till this day the few readers having connected to characters and words of abandoned works.
If you are a creative, your MFA course of study will require the type of classes you loved as an undergraduate and this isn’t math; there are no definitive right or wrong answers. If you rub someone the wrong way in the arts, you can be crossed out like a big x in a tic tack toe box, with no accountability on the part of your instructor.
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Chelle A. Carter-Wilson