Both disciplines (and they do see themselves as separate disciplines – the former looking backwards the latter ever forwards) seem embarrassed about the merging of art and institution, a discomfort that manifests in widespread pop-cultural derision of the MFA. According to the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP), there are 229 total creative writing MFA-conferring institutions–a more than 100% increase from a decade ago, when there were 109. What I'm getting at is that there's no shame in majoring in creative writing. Being in a writers’ group helps. Maybe you don't need to do a degree or a master's to be a successful writer, but the training you'll get could help you on your way. Did doing a degree in creative writing make me a better writer? So are they worth the money? 2020 Bustle Digital Group. In fact, it's pretty awesome, because your homework is making up stories and poems — the thing you've probably been doing for fun since you were a kid. To enable Verizon Media and our partners to process your personal data select 'I agree', or select 'Manage settings' for more information and to manage your choices. I just don’t know. I need to write whenever I have the time and I need to force myself to dig for creativity, even when it feels like my imagination has dried up. There is something extraordinary about it, an ever-growing chorus of young voices using the social legitimacy of a degree to carve out the space and time to be artists, but American literary history has been pointedly quiet about the MFA. There's a special moment when you see a fellow creative writing major at the on-campus coffee shop. The worst part is that whatever you decide, you know a small part of you will regret not taking the other path. I had no idea what type of career I wanted, but the teachers at my Sixth Form consistently told us that having a degree – any degree – would help us to secure better, higher paying jobs. I’m fairly certain I could have got to where I am now without a degree. In workshops, the conversations we tried to have about authorial permission – who has the right to write – were heated, messy, and important. To experience a first hand response, we interviewed a university student at the University of Technology, Sydney, currently undergoing a degree in writing; Do I think studying a writing degree at university is crucial? I have a confession to make. If you’re a writer you read and write anyway. The question is, would I have been in the exact same position as I am now with writing as I would have been had I not done a creative writing degree? She states that experts are merely people with a degree: "The degree doesn’t mean he knows how to do what he’s an expert at.” Further, she goes on to say; it does not prove any practical experience, only that he can “impress other people with his accomplishment,” which is attaining the degree. My senior year, I was one of two students selected to speak on behalf of the program. By last year, that number had more than tripled, to 229 (and another 152 M.A. A graduate writing degree, unsurprisingly, turns out a lot of opinionated writing. There is nothing more valuable than real life experience. When I mentioned to a friend that I was writing a piece about the MFA, and wanted to say something new, he instantly replied: "Maybe you can't. Which is fun. We talked about how it worked and didn't work, as if the author of that story were not awkwardly sitting among us, condemned to silence. Is a creative writing degree worth it in terms of developing writing talent and skill? First published on Mon 3 Mar 2014 10.21 GMT, When the University of East Anglia offered the first British MA in creative writing almost 35 years ago, it caused academic scandal. The pop-cultural contempt for the MFA masks itself as discomfort with the first part of that sentence, but we have long since accepted the fundamental role of instruction, guidance, and practice in the role of other artforms. ), but sometimes it's easier to avoid the looks of condolence and skip ahead to a subject most people can understand. Ultimately, these degrees can teach valuable transferable skills that writers will learn to put into practice. Nevertheless, if you are concentrating on certain outlets of writing and have real talent, the lack of a degree is unlikely to impact you as much as you might think in the future. The acceptance rate for Harvard Law School hovers around 15 per cent. It's hard to see the shape of a system from inside it; harder still when that system is wilfully blind. My visa papers were stamped 'Non-Resident Alien' and that's exactly how I felt – a zoo kangaroo, an ungainly antipodean novelty. Just take it day-by-day. A pedagogical Ponzi scheme. Ultimately, the decision was financial because she couldn’t afford expensive workshops, writing residencies , or writing retreats to gain new skills. Ian McEwan, Kazuo Ishiguro and Nathan Filer, the latest Costa book prize winner, are just some examples. Where is the line between ally and appropriator, between highlighting and hijacking? I loved writing poems and stories in school and took what I learned home to write in my free time. This is an edited extract of an essay We Are All MFAs Now: The Rise and Rise of American Creative Writing Degrees by Beejay Silcox, published in the August issue of the Australian Book Review. You know?" Available for everyone, funded by readers. Despite this opposition there are now hundreds of creative writing courses, both at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Actor Sophie Ward decided to diversify her career and has now graduated from the National Academy of Writing. In 2016 – the most recent year of data – there were 244, not to mention the ever-expanding constellation of other degree-conferring creative writing programs, from … Harsh criticism just bounces off of you like bullets off of Wonder Woman's cuffs. Mon 3 Mar 2014 10.21 GMT If writing is your true calling, you’ll find a way to succeed. It's tough to listen to your heart and pick an artsy major instead of one that will definitely get you an actual, well-paying job right out of school, but you know life isn't about playing it safe. Read now to discover what I learned from a degree in creative writing, how it helped to make me a better writer, and whether I would recommend it to other creative writers. It takes you back to basics. Is a creative writing degree worth the money? I mean, I guess. In an expert system, the talented, the challenging and the brash are weeded out, and the inoffensive mediocre remain.”. At this point, you're totally putting the cart before the horse, but you can't help it. The Morrison government has a big responsibility to create a path out of the first recession in three decades. The question is would they have achieved anyway? These days I love sharing my stories with the internet, and having my work read and enjoyed by others is one of the biggest reasons why I write. Was it worth it? Some people say you'll never get a job with a creative writing degree, but they teach valuable transferable skills Geoff Mills She looks up from her laptop (where she's been working on her villanelle) and you give each other the nod that says: you get me. You're willing to suffer through a lot of poems about softly falling snow if it means you get to knock back a few plastic cups of cheap Merlot. Jon Elsom, executive creative director of Bray Leino, a marketing and advertising company, is himself a graduate of the MA at Birkbeck. I think that hand on learning in a writing field is more important, and will have more of an impact. Sharing creative work can be scary. That's why creative departments are such melting pots, because they're full of people from all sorts of different backgrounds.". Many agree that pursuing a writing degree will mean spending a lot of time doing things that have no relationship to what you want to do in the future. Not really. I'm tired of justifying my decision to go. Pursuing the arts wasn’t an option, since I had no one to fall back on. with kindness. Ultimately, these degrees can teach valuable transferable skills that writers will learn to put into practice. It was certainly alive and well in my program. In a novel, the prologue – a section preceding your first chapter – is a powerful literary tool. What Are The Best Birthday & Christmas Gifts For Writers? Despite this ongoing debate, it is true, today more than ever, that there's a broad range of writing degrees for writers to choose from. ), Creative writing majors already have to face well-meaning family members and friends who want to know: "What exactly do you plan to do with your degree?" It does not, however, prepare them for the world of employment. It doesn’t matter how young or how old you are; the decisions you make today don’t have to be the ones you live by tomorrow. Things to consider: The piece of paper is worthless. Digital agencies and businesses worldwide need them to produce and share high quality content on a regular basis which in turn leads to profit. I've got out of this cliché of 'waiting for a muse', so if nothing else it's helped me to become a more prolific writer and student. Having spent three years inside an MFA, I've been trying to make sense of what that means. The acceptance rate for a fully funded MFA is routinely less than five. Degrees are expensive. We are no longer limited to choosing between the English Literature or Journalism. Not only this, but these degrees also significantly boost an aspiring writer's confidence, which in turn, makes them more proactive in getting their work out there. I do know. What exactly do you plan to do with your degree. Share your experiences in the comment section below. A semester in, I wondered if she was right. My corner of America seemed trip-wired with unspoken rules and hierarchies, and I kept snagging myself by asking about them. Creative writing is both bad and good in that it in no way operates on an apprenticeship sort of model, or where you get such and such degree that leads to such and such graduate degree that leads to the standard "ground floor" position that you work your way up from (in the way that law, or business, or medicine might). On our best days, our conversations were vibrant and warm-hearted. I did not get a degree in creative writing, but took all of the undergraduate creative writing classes my university offered (did not get a major or minor because I did not take the more traditional English courses also required for the degree). This budget will be one watched by millions of Australians and will be Treasurer Josh Frydenberg’s legacy. We all feel like frauds. A degree can’t guarantee professional success or artistic renown. MFA fiction didn't infect American fiction, American fiction invented the MFA – the degree has been taught (and taken) by many of its most influential voices, from Flannery O'Connor (Iowa grad, 1947) to George Saunders (current MFA faculty, Syracuse). When the self-conscious teen years came in, those were things I did start to worry about, and so I stopped writing regularly. As with anything, you can get bad courses and excellent ones. In a 2011 interview with Salon, the current director of the Iowa program, Lan Samantha Chang, noted: "It's so fascinating to me that smart people waste, or spend, an enormous amount of effort criticising people who love to read and write. And that stuff comes free. Careers for Creative Writing Majors. She is an obsessive reader and passionate writer, and has plans to endeavour a Masters in Publishing. The question remains, is it worth it? "The program writer, even if he's been both student and professor," writes Harbach, "always wants to assume, and is to some extent granted, outsider status by the University; is always lobbing his flaming bags of prose over the ivied gate late at night. What do we lose when those with power step in to speak for those without? And you don’t learn anything new if your main goal in life is seeking the approval of experts.”, Lisle goes on to describe a professional as someone who earns their living working in the field. I was terrified at the prospect of an entire seminar group reading my stories and offering their criticism. If I want to become a professional fiction writer, I need to work at it at any opportunity. In the land of the 'Great American Novel', the writer–genius myth speaks to something fundamental about how America sees itself – rugged, untethered. B) Don’t expect to have more time to work on your book. I think most writers find themselves, at one point or another, absolutely despising their own work. What are the benefits? Here’s why. You'd hate you, too. Charlotte Barnes, currently studying a creative writing MA at Birmingham University, says: "The course has encouraged me to write, whether I feel like it or not. In the months before I moved to Virginia to begin an MFA, a collection of essays was published that weaponised that question, combatively titled MFA vs NYC: The two cultures of American fiction (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2014). That's only like, 260 pages. We barely talked about how to turn our inchoate hopes into sustaining, realistic careers, in teaching or otherwise (although teaching was how we grudgingly earned our space in the department, we were cheap teachers and cheap to teach). Is a tertiary education in creative writing worth it? As the novelist (and vocal MFA critic) Elif Batuman writes, "literary historians don't write about creative writing, and creative writers don't write literary histories". The late D.G. But the hypermasculine musk of the self-destructive American writer–genius is hard to wipe off – a "wine-chugging Hemingway firing a homemade rifle at a rabid shark from the back of a speeding ambulance", as Harbach delightfully summarises. The model – with its antique pedagogy – is not only a potent American invention, but a potent American export. You totally get it. I may not be making money out of writing fiction right now, but my degree is certainly fuelling my hobby and I’m hopeful that eventually I will start to make a bit of a living from writing stories. All in all, there are some fairly split views on the subject. Or as McGurl more sedately writes in the MFA's most comprehensive history, The Program Years: Postwar fiction and the rise of creative writing, "a discipline concocted as a progressive antidote to conformism [has been] charged with being an agent of that conformism." This involved justifying the themes, stylistic choices, and influences of our story, script, or poem. Deviating from the traditional creative writing graduate programs, freelance writer and Romper news writer Annamarya Scaccia opted for a Master’s in Journalism instead. At some point, you'll also have to read your work aloud at a public reading, and you'll definitely have to pull some all-night writing sessions. Feelings become fact. During seminars we’d dig into the nitty gritty of each other’s stories to make them the best they could be. A professional writer writes stories, articles, or books for readers.”, These are the people that earn their money through people buying their consumer product. I completed a degree in Creative Writing in 2012, and ever since I've wondered if it was worth it. But I also had to take out a maintenance loan to pay for accommodation and living costs. Even setting up a little online writing group via WordPress, Twitter, Wattpad, or any other social platform could help you to share and workshop stories in a similar way to that done during a creative writing degree. "It's virtually impossible," as the novelist (and MFA graduate) Chad Harbach writes, "to read a particular book and deduce whether the writer attended a program. In 2016 – the most recent year of data – there were 244, not to mention the ever-expanding constellation of other degree-conferring creative writing programs, from BAs to PhDs, almost 2000 in total. When utilised correctly, a prologue can elevate your novel to the next level. For one thing, she almost certainly did ... And even if the writer has somehow never heard of an MFA program or set foot on a college campus, it doesn't matter, because if she's read any American fiction of the past 60 years, or met someone who did, she's imbibed the general idea and aesthetic. I felt genuinely excited about writing stories again, which was incredible. Click To Tweet. Writers should look at it as a form of guidance which will hopefully better prepare them for writing in the industry. In politics, thinking becomes feeling. I did no courses in creative writing. The reality is that publishing success may only come to a minority of creative writing graduates, but the most noted writers do often come from MA writing programmes. Sometimes when I'm asked what I majored in during college, I occasionally fib and say English or English literature instead of what's written on my diploma: creative writing. I had a ringside seat to a country turning in on itself. Spending 3 years sharing my creative work with fellow students and the published authors who taught me was vital for my self-confidence. Great article, Ellie. You can connect with her on Twitter (@itsemscott), Instagram (@itsemscott91) and Medium (@elliemaryscott). A fortnight into my degree, one of my teachers suggested I should do myself a favour and head back home; I didn't belong. I have had most success as a writer of children’s poetry [ in many anthologies and periodicals]. (Especially after your professor compliments you on your use of metaphor in front of the entire class. I’ve changed a lot from the person I was at 17, when I was deciding what I wanted to do at university. It’s never been the case that your academic qualifications are as important. The thing to keep in mind though, is that the degree itself, the piece of paper you get at the end, has no bearing on whether or not you get that novel published or secure regular freelance work. Basically, I wracked up a debt of somewhere around £25k for 3 years of study. That's what you earn when you earn an MFA. The MFA is the degree writers love to hate. Tanya Lake. No job is going to care about a creative writing degree anymore than a degree in watching paint dry. They compared published works that had been reviewed by the New York Times, and – shockingly – found no differences. The book was a nuanced and pragmatic account of America's vaguely bifurcated culture of literary funding (universities and New York publishing), but its boxing-ring title demanded that teams be taken: team life experience (NYC) versus team ivory tower (MFA); garret versus classroom; caution-to-the-wind versus caution; original talent versus cookie-cutter clone. It helped me not only to recognise clunky sentence structures, clichés, rubbish plot structure, and other aspects of poor writing, but also to consider the bigger picture of my work. Creative writing is a bachelor’s degree, however, which means you may be able to land a generic job in an unrelated field which requires a bachelor’s degree, but does not specify beyond that. 1. But the 'good or bad' debate is tedious, bordering on the farcical. We and our partners will store and/or access information on your device through the use of cookies and similar technologies, to display personalised ads and content, for ad and content measurement, audience insights and product development. One day you imagine yourself applying to grad school, the next looking for an entry-level job at a publishing company. "What I felt very strongly," an Iowa grad told me, describing his experience more than a decade ago, "was not indignation so much as sadness and bewilderment at a fundamental lack of curiosity or bibliophilic hunger.". When it comes to ourselves? I think that, for me personally, it probably was. All rights reserved. Here are a few more things you can expect once you learn to stop worrying and embrace being a creative writing major. You're willing to bet everything on how much you love to tell a good story and you wouldn't trade being a creative writing major for anything. Not only this, but these degrees also significantly boost an aspiring writer's confidence, which in turn, makes them more proactive in getting their work out there. I was a lazy writer in my teens. The successful writers just do it anyway.” - Carol Tice. Nevertheless, it is important for people to understand it is just a step. America was gearing up for the next election and – as with MFA versus NYC – cultural teams were being chosen; not between the left and the right, those teams were long set, but deep within them. Reading Time: 4 minutes Today I want to talk about whether or not a creative writing degree is worth it. But class starts in 15 minutes, and you need to bring 13 copies of a 20-page short story you finished writing late last night. Learn how your comment data is processed. Below the grand opera of its politics, below the bombast, dysfunction, and partisan rage, a new generation of authors is writing America, and thousands of them are choosing to do it from within the US college network, as students and teachers of MFA (Master of Fine Arts) programs – the 'largest system of literary patronage for living writers the world has ever seen'. Being a creative writing major is not for the weak. Even those colleges which point to their radical stance and avant-garde teachings are creating students who conform to their mould-their sort of radicals, their sort of avant-garde.”, Students in college have to earn the approval of their teachers in order to get their grades and graduate. However, I’m pretty sure that any humanities degree would have helped me to get the job. It was a cultivated apathy, deceptively competitive, and not, I later discovered, restricted to my program. But someone who can't write well or critique someone else's work in a way that's at all helpful (but who thinks they can) is another monster entirely and you do not have time for this unwashed riffraff. • What do you think? My degree in creative writing also helped me to criticise my own work from a sensible, objective standpoint. But when I was 17 (read: young, dumb, and not really thinking about the future) the thought of doing an intense science degree made me yawn. Some thought, if it could be, it shouldn't be.". The person behind you just has to deal. Eloise Edstein is currently undergoing a Bachelor of Communications; Creative Writing at the University of Technology, Sydney. The rise of the creative writing program, argues Stanford Professor Mark McGurl, "stands as the most important event in post-war American literary history". It wasn't as if some grand secret were being conspiratorially withheld; such concerns were simply irrelevant – distractions. 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