How are the work schedules and communications between faculty and graduate writers handled in a distance-delivery program, such as a low-residency MFA?
Low-residency programs offer a more customized program of study and writing practice to graduate writers. Graduate writers and their mentors establish a regular schedule of communication throughout the academic year. In these correspondences the readings are discussed, as are the new and revised drafts of the creative work, taking into consideration the graduate writers’ specialized areas of study. Many educators/faculty believe the low-residency model resembles more realistically the solitary writing life that writers experience post-MFA. This type of writing apprenticeship program does require people who are already highly-motivated, disciplined, and committed to developing their art—just as any graduate program in the arts. MFA low-residency programs offer what their residency counterparts do: they afford students the opportunity to focus on the art of writing with the goal of creating an extended volume of creative work, such a collection of poems, literary nonfiction, short storie
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