Creative Writing | Marginalia

When I decided to come to Columbia, I told people that my long-term goal was to be a professor. Columbia’s student teaching program, w..

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..

Winter break was much needed after a stressful semester filled with teaching, taking three classes, and working a handful of jobs. I n..

When I originally applied for MFA programs, I applied in fiction. Fiction seemed more practical; there are at least a few fiction writ..

By the time this goes up I will have finished my first semester at Columbia College Chicago. I will be one semester closer to having m..

The application process for graduate school is extremely stressful. I know this; I have done it before; it’s intense. Especially, if l..

I took two years off between undergraduate and graduate school. We don’t write many papers in non-lit courses in the poetry program, a..

Colleen O’Connor is a second-year graduate student in the Nonfiction program. She is an exquisite writer, someone who makes even the m..

Advanced is the fourth writing class in the Story Workshop. From my first semester, I heard people talking about the Steeplechase proj..