<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div>opportunity</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">English Creative Writing Admin Assistant</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:cwassistant@ua.edu" target="_blank">cwassistant@ua.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Fri, Oct 7, 2022 at 12:35 PM<br>Subject: OPPORTUNITY FOR YOUR STUDENTS: The MFA Program in Creative Writing @ the University of Alabama<br>To: <br></div><br><br><div>




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<span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:black">My name is PD Edgar, and I'm writing from the
<a href="https://cw.english.ua.edu" title="https://cw.english.ua.edu" target="_blank">MFA Creative Writing Program at the University of Alabama</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="color:black;font-size:12pt">I hope this email finds you and your students well! As we begin to move toward winter, I hope you'll share this information about our program with any students who may be interested in
<a href="https://cw.english.ua.edu/mfa-admissions/" title="https://cw.english.ua.edu/mfa-admissions/" target="_blank">
applying</a> into an MFA in Creative Writing, be it in Poetry, Fiction, or Creative Nonfiction. </span></div>
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The University of Alabama MFA is a unique program that values providing students with opportunities to write widely (Students write traditionally as well as in the veins of speculative/science fiction and digital/multimedia poetry) and build professional experience.
 We provide students with a<i><u> fully-funded assistantship for<span> </span></u></i><u><i>up to<span> </span></i></u><u><i>four
 years</i></u> of coursework at the main campus in <a href="https://bfsa.ua.edu/hallowed-grounds-tours.html" title="https://bfsa.ua.edu/hallowed-grounds-tours.html" target="_blank">
historic</a> <a href="https://www.ua.edu/tuscaloosa" title="https://www.ua.edu/tuscaloosa" target="_blank">
Tuscaloosa, Alabama</a>. Furthermore, the flexibility of our program often allows students to pursue a dual degree, as many have in
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book arts</a>, <a href="https://linguistics.english.ua.edu" title="https://linguistics.english.ua.edu" target="_blank">
TESOL</a>, <a href="https://jcm.ua.edu/graduate/" title="https://jcm.ua.edu/graduate/" target="_blank">
journalism</a>, and <a href="https://grs.as.ua.edu" title="https://grs.as.ua.edu" target="_blank">
gender and race studies</a>, to name a few.</div>
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Not only will students learn from a variety of colleagues from across America and around the World, but they'll do so with the opportunity to build out their teaching, editing, administrative, and community service portfolio.<span> </span><span style="margin:0px">The
 assistantship that UA's MFA allows for students to teach up to intermediate-level creative writing classes, to lead the nation's oldest continuously-run graduate literary magazine<span> </span></span><i><a href="http://bwr.ua.edu" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="bwr.ua.edu" style="margin:0px" target="_blank">Black
 Warrior Review</a></i><span style="margin:0px">, to participate in a variety of institutional administrative roles, and to serve incarcerated writers as an instructor in the<span> </span><a href="https://cw.english.ua.edu/alabama-prison-arts/" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="https://cw.english.ua.edu/alabama-prison-arts/" style="margin:0px" target="_blank">Alabama
 Prison Arts + Education Project</a>. </span></div>
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<div style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:black">It's the mission of our program not just to encourage the growth of thoughtfulness and artistic sensibility, but to deepen a writer's practice so that it is lifelong. In the words of
 some of our veteran professors, "If you're still writing 10 years after you graduate from this program, we've done our job well." That said, graduates from Alabama's MFA have recently won<span> </span><a href="https://www.diamondforde.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="https://www.diamondforde.com" style="margin:0px" target="_blank">Ruth
 Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships</a>,<span> </span><a href="https://www.krcandrilli.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="https://www.krcandrilli.com" style="margin:0px" target="_blank">Whiting
 Awards and NEA Fellowships</a>, and<span> </span><a href="https://cw.english.ua.edu/alumni-publications/" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="https://cw.english.ua.edu/alumni-publications/" style="margin:0px" target="_blank">other
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<div style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:black">As the Assistant to the Director of the MFA Program, I'm available to communicate personally with students who may have any questions about our program, and I hope you'll encourage them
 to reach out and <a href="https://cw.english.ua.edu/mfa-admissions/" title="https://cw.english.ua.edu/mfa-admissions/" target="_blank">
apply</a>! </div>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:black">Thank you so much for your time, </span><br>
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