Creative Writing | Marginalia

It’s been about three weeks since I finished the semester, and I haven’t written a single word. That’s right. I’m admitting it. I have..

In the weeks since classes ended, life has, if anything, been more stressful. That doesn’t make sense at all, but as I write this I’m ..

Top 3 Things About Dan “Big Dan T.” Terrill

1. He taught me how to shoot a gun. (He works at guns.com.)

2. He has been at every ..

I can’t believe that I didn’t wake up and go to class this morning. I didn’t teach. I didn’t work. I didn’t crack open a book or have ..

The summer between the first and second year of an MFA program feels important. It feels like growth is supposed to happen; you’ve bee..

Maddison Hamil is a first-year MFA candidate in the Nonfiction program at Columbia. I have had the opportunity to work with Maddison c..

I feel like a second year now. I mean, pretty much. As I write this, I am in the last week of classes, having just watched the second ..

This week I had the opportunity to meet with some of our newly admitted students, and I was so pleased to have met all of them (or you..

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