Creative Writing – Fiction | Marginalia

The New Year has dawned, and I don’t have a list of Resolutions for myself. For the past handful of years, I can name the “goals” I made f..

I write to you from the last stress-filled weeks of the semester. I know end-of-semester chaos isn’t a new thing, but I always find myself..

I’m writing from the head-fog-filled morning of November 9, the day after the Election was called for Republican candidate Donald Trum..

One of the big things I considered when I applied to MFA programs was the location. And since I ended up at Columbia College Chicago, you ..

As writers, we’re always told the best work goes through multiple drafts and revision processes before it’s the best it can be. And ev..

Half of my cohort meeting for the first time at a GSO-hosted event.

So you made it! You’re in a new MFA program, you’re meeting new pe..

It is hard to believe just how fast the summer flew by, a flurry of activity. I had a wedding, taught two Creative Writing classes fil..

The Fall semester begins Tuesday, September 8. It’s still roughly a month and a half away. But to the new members of the Columbia Coll..

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For a truly serious MFAer, the summer is made for writing, for producing as much great stuff as possible without l..