A Visual MFA - Hamline University, 2009-2011
I ran across all my Hamline pictures as I was organizing my photos ... why not share? A few are posted already (look under the MFA category over in the cloud for the rest of the Hamline University MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults posts), but these, for whatever reason, never made it up. Hmmm. Can't imagine why.
We partake in public transportation:
We have tornado drills!
We talk and stuff:
We maintain a standard of personal hygiene:
We sit around sometimes:
We listen to folktales:
We play "So Big!" with Marsha Qualey:
We play with chickens:
We play dress-up:
We plot our books:
Sometimes we yell:
We partake in musical entertainment:
We walk around a lot:
We go places:
When we come back, we relax:
We work hard! Really!
And we shake a little booty:
P.S. This is what writers do when we think no one is looking.
I hid brochures for MFA programs in my bottom desk drawer. Every few months I’d take them out, page through, dream a little… Until finally in 2009 I enrolled in Hamline University’s MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults. The program took two years of concentrated study at home, and for 60 days, spread over five residencies, I lived...