<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Christian McLean</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:christian.mclean@stonybrook.edu">christian.mclean@stonybrook.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 8:20 AM<br>Subject: Stony Brook Southampton MFA Open House - Nov 3<br>To: Tom Lutz <<a href="mailto:tom.lutz@ucr.edu">tom.lutz@ucr.edu</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr">Dear Professor Lutz,<br><br>Greetings from the Stony Brook MFA Program in Creative Writing & Literature -<br><br><div>I’m writing to let you and, if possible, your students know that we will be having a virtual Open House on Thursday, November 3, at 7pm for anyone interested in finding out more about <a href="http://ec2-54-189-84-127.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com/x/d?c=26482489&l=d19ecdc6-5fcd-4540-a987-d2184734f837&r=e189f7d8-9835-4970-825e-b5f7b2138cb9" target="_blank">our program</a>.<br><br></div><div>Members of our faculty, administration, and staff will be there to talk, among other things, about how the degree is organized (we encourage experimentation and don’t track according to genre), the three locations where students take and teach classes (Southampton, Manhattan, and Stony Brook), and the overall spirits of creativity and common endeavor that prevail here (we are not the English Department; it’s more like an extended writers’ colony with a degree).<br><br></div><div><a href="http://ec2-54-189-84-127.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com/x/d?c=26482489&l=3f39382d-d304-43f4-851f-ae139f68aa25&r=e189f7d8-9835-4970-825e-b5f7b2138cb9" target="_blank">Our faculty</a> includes in-the-practice authors such as Molly Gaudry, Amy Hempel, Christine Kitano, Matthew Klam, Robert Lopez, Susan Scarf Merrell, Susan Minot, Julie Sheehan, Lou Ann Walker, myself and numerous others.<br><br>It would be a great pleasure to see you and any of your potentially interested young authors there. Please <a href="http://ec2-54-189-84-127.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com/x/d?c=26482489&l=dae19605-0206-4660-ae9f-60c660c4e49b&r=e189f7d8-9835-4970-825e-b5f7b2138cb9" target="_blank">RSVP here.</a><br><br>Thank you and all the best,<br><br>Paul Harding<br>Program Director</div><div><a href="mailto:paul.l.harding@stonybrook.edu" target="_blank">paul.l.harding@stonybrook.edu</a><br><div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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