Tim Parrish still remembers being an MFA writing student at the University of Alabama, where one professor, upon reading his work, “turned red, slammed his fist on the table,” threw Parrish’s papers back in his face and yelled, “‘This is hyperbolic!’” Traumatic moments like that hovered in Parrish’s mind as he and his colleagues were […]
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A Way with Words
For graduate degrees in writing, locals have options. New Haven has two full-residency MFA programs: a playwriting track at Yale, and fiction and poetry concentrations at Southern Connecticut State. Fairfield (more…)