It's a tough deciding if you want to take your genre stories (from romance to horror writing) to MFA programs that specialize in straightforward fiction. A couple readers weighed in with more advice, including Jim Walke and Nick Mamatas. If you have any personal experience, you should pass along more ideas--you could save some fledgling writer from an unhappy experience.
Nick Mamatas also added a list of popular and speculative fiction friendly schools, a handy little resource for all the people on our site...
"Anyway, a number of MFA programs have an interest in speculative fiction. University of Maine Stonecoast, Seton Hill, and Goddard all offer speculative fiction tracks, and Western Connecticut State University's new MFA in professional writing is open to speculative fiction writers, though most of their faculty is involved with the literary mainstream."
I received my B.A. at U.S.C., where my main professor of Creative Writing was T.C. Boyle. He always told me that there were schools very interested in "genre" storytellers when it came to getting your M.F.A.
It certainly is news to me that this isn't the case.
Posted by: mojo shivers | August 30, 2006 1:45 AM | Permalink to Comment