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Writings from Master of Fine Arts students in the Department of English Creative Writing Program, Colorado State University. CWMFA blog feature image

A Little Encouraging Reminder to Myself 

February 25, 2021 Author - Louann Reid

I’m currently struggling with a story. It’s the same problem that every writer has…eventually. How to make this story work? How to reshape the character/s? How to finish the story when you’ve already invested hours into its creation? You’re presented […]

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Writing in Fractures

February 8, 2021 Author - Louann Reid

Andrew Altschul called me last March offering a spot in this coveted MFA program and, in between frantic packing and nervous drinking, I could not allow myself to be excited about this opportunity. Hours before Andrew’s call, my undergraduate institution […]

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How To Write Following an Insurrection in the United States of America

January 21, 2021 Author - Louann Reid

I think the short answer is, “we don’t.” As an MFA student here at CSU, I’m meant to contribute something to the MFA blog on the subject of writing. Which is what I start doing. Writing on writing. And then […]

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Ineffable Poetics; Toward Recovery and a Life in Writing

January 11, 2021 Author - Louann Reid

Nearly a decade has passed since my first college writing teacher encouraged me to write beyond his class. In the interim between then and now I have filled up notebooks and read at open mics trying to explain my experience […]

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Introducing the Embodied Experience of Playing Music To My Work on the Page, by Bryce M O’Tierney

November 24, 2020 Author - Louann Reid

Making the decision to move cross-country and start an MFA program in the midst of a pandemic called me to consider my relationship with uncertainty. For four years in Chicago, I cultivated a career as a performing artist with my […]

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Welcome Back, by Elena Brousard Norcross

September 18, 2020 Author - Gabriel Saldana

Welcome back to a most peculiar year. Here at CSU, the MFA program in Creative Writing has done their best to keep calm and carry on. Carry on is something I’ve been thinking of a lot lately.

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Writing While Quarantining with Two Young Children, by Sarah Olson

May 8, 2020 Author - Gabriel Saldana

Here’s the thing about writing while quarantining with two young children: there is no waiting for the muse to appear or inspiration to strike…

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Becoming a Writer, by JV Genova

April 29, 2020 Author - Gabriel Saldana

Were you to ask me—more years ago than I care to mention, back when I was a child playing my Atari—what I wanted to be when I grew up, my answer would have been, “a writer.”

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I Came to Grad School to Quarantine Myself, by Hannah Barnhart

April 2, 2020 Author - Gabriel Saldana

…Excluding those who are working the front lines in health care, essential service employees, or parents who are taking on extra responsibilities, the majority of us who are sheltering-in-place, staying-at-home, and waiting out this pandemic, life is a little less busy…

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Serendipity between Omaha and Fort Collins, by Annmarie Delfino

March 18, 2020 Author - Gabriel Saldana

I’m not sure how much stock to put in coincidences… but what are the odds that the one apartment tour I was at home for would bring people who were moving from not only the city, but the school I was soon heading toward?

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