Why a Creative Writing MFA Might Not Be Worth It
Repeat after me: ‘I am a writer’
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6 min readJan 8, 2022
You could’ve taken a snap-shot of me and slapped it on the front of a university prospectus. I was standing outside the campus where I taught, literally jumping for joy.
I had just been accepted into the University of British Columbia’s MFA in Creative Writing. They liked my writing.
