Monica West (’14) Awarded Jaffe Fellowship

The Writers’ Workshop and The Rona Jaffe Foundation are delighted to announce that the 2015-2016 Rona Jaffe Foundation Graduate Fellowship in Creative Writing has been awarded to Monica West, who will enroll in the program’s Graduate Fiction Workshop this fall. The fellowship, which pays tuition and a generous stipend, is granted each year to a first-year woman student […]

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Hope Wabuke on the Need For Diverse MFA Programs

If We Want Diverse Books, We Need Diverse MFA Programs Recently, in the New Yorker, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Diaz described his experience in his Master of Fine Arts in creative writing program: His first year, he almost dropped out because it “was too white.” States Diaz: “I was a person of color in a workshop […]

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NPR on Cultural Diversity in MFA Programs

Some months later, NPR produces the first of two stories in response to Junot Diaz “MFA vs. POC”            

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