My MFA Peeps

Recently, a friend of mine from my MFA program let me know she was writing and publishing again. I was very excited to hear that from her because I admire her and her writing style. I was also grateful that she was interested in sharing our work as well as our trials and tribulations with the whole submission process.

We have been emailing and messaging each other over the last few weeks and it has been great.

I have a lot of baggage from my five years in Las Vegas. There was a lot of stress and uncertainty and very unhealthy living.

When I was there and in it, I really dug the workshop atmosphere but man there was just so much pretentiousness. I will fully admit that I dabbled in that a little. I mean I was chosen to be part of this amazing program. I definitely have some bad takeaways from those workshops but I also met some really great people who I am still friends with today.

I had also thought that the program would be more inclusive but I felt like a token minority. I see that now it has become way more inclusive and that’s great but I would have loved some of that when I was there.

The absolutely best thing about my MFA program were the amazing people that I had met. Even with my feelings of tokenism and inadequacy, I still felt strongly that some of these men and women that I shared stories and drinks with were going to be in my life for the rest of it, and although we all live on different continents now, we are still connected by those shared experiences.