How does the summer workshops differ from the MFA program? Is there as much diversity in age and experience during the summer fiction workshops as there is during the regular year?
When I did the summer workshop there we had someone in their senior year of undergrad sitting next to a few folks in their 60s and 70s (maybe 80s? never asked). Some of the most beautiful writing was actually from the oldest gentleman in the class. Never count yourself out due to age!
I left this comment on another video but I'm so curious when applicant's work is being read for admission is it read blindly or are the reader's aware of the writer's name and age?
@@leeannpelletier4117I have a four year degree in computer science and an MA in English too. I have been working as a lecturer in English for 8 years now. Which degree I should use to apply to? I have 3.0 GPA in Computer science and 52% in MA in English. My teaching position is based on MA English degree.
Yeah, like @ColburnClassroom said, Cisneros' time at the workshop in the 70s and even Sam Chang's time in the 80s was a very different and much more brutal and callous environment. Sam Chang has been instrumental in pushing the pedagogy far far away from that.
I find the Cisneros comments shrill and self-pitying. She says essentially the place wasn’t for me so the place needed to be different. It didn’t need to be different.
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How does the summer workshops differ from the MFA program? Is there as much diversity in age and experience during the summer fiction workshops as there is during the regular year?
When I did the summer workshop there we had someone in their senior year of undergrad sitting next to a few folks in their 60s and 70s (maybe 80s? never asked). Some of the most beautiful writing was actually from the oldest gentleman in the class. Never count yourself out due to age!
Sam, how does Iowa Writers Workshop and Warren Wilson College's MFA Program for Writers compare in age diversity?
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I left this comment on another video but I'm so curious when applicant's work is being read for admission is it read blindly or are the reader's aware of the writer's name and age?
it's read blindly! and the writing samples go through 7 different readers
Does your Bachelor’s need to be in English or another writing discipline in order to be accepted to the Iowa Writers’ Workshop?
No it can be any kind of Bachelor’s
@@leeannpelletier4117I have a four year degree in computer science and an MA in English too. I have been working as a lecturer in English for 8 years now. Which degree I should use to apply to? I have 3.0 GPA in Computer science and 52% in MA in English. My teaching position is based on MA English degree.
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Be sure to watch the UA-cam vid "Sandra Cisneros: I Hate the Iowa Writers Workshop." Hearing her, it made me see these people in a much clearer light.
Sandra Cisneros graduated from the workshop in 1978. The program has increased its diversity since then.
Yeah, like @ColburnClassroom said, Cisneros' time at the workshop in the 70s and even Sam Chang's time in the 80s was a very different and much more brutal and callous environment. Sam Chang has been instrumental in pushing the pedagogy far far away from that.
I find the Cisneros comments shrill and self-pitying. She says essentially the place wasn’t for me so the place needed to be different. It didn’t need to be different.
I think a prestigious Writer's Workshop program respected for decades internationally has more credibility than Cisneros. What's her beef?