The Master of Fine Arts in Writing program at Albertus Magnus College will be turning ten years old. Our MFA program is a no-residency, online creative writing program with an emphasis on developing a publishable portfolio led by faculty authors. Learn more about admissions requirements.
In celebration of the program’s tenth year, our alumni are putting pen to paper to share their Albertus experience. Hear from Coral Moore ’13, a science fiction novelist from Seattle, Washington, on the importance of her MFA degree in becoming a writer.
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I learned so much in the Master of Fine Arts in Writing program, but the most valuable bit for me was learning how to take and give critiques in a group setting and that interaction with instructors and students in that setting.
I went into the MFA program not ever having taken creative writing classes.
I learned so much about the process of writing and how important critiques are to it. It gave me a very broad understanding of the publishing process in general.
Currently I’m working on two different novels, both are ‘secondary world’ fantasy novels. I just finished the second draft of my current project. While one manuscript needs another editing pass, the other is nearing the first draft stage. My editor and agent are already interested in seeing the first when it’s done, so I’m pretty excited about that!
I have done several public readings of my work at my local Science Fiction and Fantasy (SFF) convention, Norwescon, and also at a monthly open-mic SFF fiction event called “Two Hour Transport” in Seattle.
You can read some of Coral’s recently published work, including “Sustaining Memory”, “Most AIs are Jerks”, and “The Night You Were A Comet”.