R304. Everything We Wish We Had Known Before Applying to Grad School

D137-138, Oregon Convention Center, Level 1
Thursday, March 28, 2019
4:30 pm to 5:45 pm

 

MFA or MA or PhD? Low-residency or traditional? Thousands of applicants face a confusing array of program choices. How can a prospective student find the right fit? What are the most important criteria, and what's the best way to pay for school? We'll cover scholarships, fellowships, and private funding, along with other important lessons we've learned, both as grad students and professors who are also published poets, authors, and filmmakers.


Participants

Moderator:

JoBeth McDaniel is a magazine journalist, nonfiction author, and graduate of Mount St. Mary's University MFA program. Her work is published widely, with essays selected for anthologies and college textbooks. She founded Facebook's School After 30 to encourage age diversity in higher education.

Pamela K. Johnson received her MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. She's an alum of the AFI Directing Workshop for Women, and has won several writing awards, including one that led to her directing a film in China.

Cai Emmons, former playwright and filmmaker, is the author of three novels: His Mother's Son, The Stylist, and Weather Woman. Her short work has appeared in such places as TriQuarterly, Arts and Culture, and Narrative Magazine. She teaches in the University of Oregon’s Creative Writing Program.

Aimee Liu is author of the novels Flash HouseCloud Mountain, and Face. Nonfiction works include Gaining and Solitaire. Her short stories and essays have appeared in more than a dozen anthologies, magazines and literary journals. She teaches in Goddard College's MFA program in Creative Writing.

Douglas Manuel received a BA from Arizona State University and a MFA from Butler University. He is a fellow at the University of Southern California where he is pursuing a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing. His first full length collection of poems, Testify, was released by Red Hen Press.

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