Creative Writing
CategoryBridging The Great Divide
I don’t know why, you don’t know why, very few people know why, and those people don’t talk so we might as well forget about them. For..
Profiles 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..
Hall Chat: Boully & Casteel Reading
I recently attended an on-campus reading that featured Nonfiction MFA faculty members, Jenny Boully and Joshua Casteel. The reading w..
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. ..
But Then There’s Also Life
One of the absolutely amazing things about graduate school is the wonderful community of creative individuals following their passion…
Balancing Teacher and Student
I recently wrote about my first steps as a teacher. I was fresh off having a great class, excited, and feeling like I could take on th..
Hall Chat: AWP
The Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference (AWP) is less than a month away. As my friend Hafizah Geter (Poetry MFA alum..
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..
Hall Chat: First Day Jitters
The Spring Semester is here. This means that first-year Graduate Student Instructors are off to their first day as teachers of Writing..
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 ..