Friends,
I picked up The Atlantic's Fiction Issue (featuring stories by the ubiquitous John Updike, and Diana's Syracuse mentor Tobias Wolff), and they had a feature about the top MFA programs in the country.
So let me share something with you about University of Texas - Austin's MFA program at the Michener Center. In regards to funding, the Michener Center gives each writer: "free tuition, a $20,000 annual stipend for three years with no teaching responsibility, and a $6,000 'professional development fund' for travel and research."
Holy shit.
They also have this rule that people must cross-specialize with their MFA, meaning that if you want a fiction MFA, you're going to also have to dabble into poetry, screenwriting or playwriting. I can write screenplays, so by extension playwriting can't be that much different...and any regular readers of this blog know of my poetic ability (see limericks), so hey...would another MFA, but one in screenwriting, really be that bad of a thing?
VIVA EL TEXAS
September 16, 2007
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Short answer: no. Fuck, it sounds like a second MFA would cost you nothing and give you the time and resources to write more. Sounds pretty bitchin' to me.
Keep in mind, Texas is a helluva program, too. It's mentioned a lot of the time in the same breath as Iowa, Virginia, and Columbia.
That said, go balls out. Get that free writing time!
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