Creative Writing – Fiction
CategoryProfiles in Gradliness: Jessie Morrison
I’ve loved Jessie Morrison’s writing since the third week of class, when our teacher read our class a story she’d started two weeks be..
FAQs: Funding and Tuition
Grad school is not cheap. You’re paying to have a couple of years where you can devote your life to your particular artistic passion. ..
FAQs: How long does a Fiction Writing MFA take?
Here’s a not-so-scientific breakdown of just how much a grad degree from Columbia College Chicago will age you!
The MFA in Creative..
FAQs: Where do grad students live?
It is possible for grad students to live on campus, and I think that they try to room grads with other grads. However, the one grad I ..
Top 5 Writing-Related Things I Did Over Winter Break
Cate said we could write a “What I Did Over Winter Break” post so, since I woke up when it was still dark so I could go run, then work..
Grubbin’ In The South Loop
Columbia College Chicago is in the South Loop at the bottom of downtown. It was a seedy area up until around ten years ago. Says Wikip..
Advanced Fiction: WTF Is A Steeplechase?!
Advanced is the fourth writing class in the Story Workshop. From my first semester, I heard people talking about the Steeplechase proj..
Not Just The Food: Why I Love Working in Multicultural Affairs
When I uploaded my resume to the ColumbiaWorks student employment site, I was hoping to get a part-time administrative job in the Fict..
Your Writing Sample: What is expository writing?
Creative writing MFA programs always ask for a writing sample as part of the application. Usually, they want 20-25 pages of fiction. C..
Tim O’Brien Quotes Pt. 2: The Subjectivity of Truth
Last week, I discussed the first half of this quote from the piece “Notes” in Tim O’Brien’s book, “The Things They Carried.”
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