On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Geoffrey D. Sperl wrote:
> Michael Marc Levy wrote:
>
> Very true. I was turned down by Irvine, Houston, and Michigan (and
> Western Michigan, but that's nothing important), and I suspect it was
> because I gleefully sent speculative pieces to them. I was accepted by
> Columbia College in Chicago, and I would have gone if they weren't
> private and expected your soul in payment for a credit. They may be
> good ones to look at because they actually have a genre fiction program
> there. I ended up getting my MA at my undergrad institution because 1)
> I couldn't afford to move, and 2) I got to know the novelists there very
> well. There was no resistance to my u/dystopian piece for my
> thesis...not that I ever really gave anybody a chance to complain (I can
> be *very* bullheaded).
>
>
> - Geoffrey
>
Columbia College in
Chicago might be an excellent choice. Phyllis Eisenstein, a very good
fantasy writer, teaches there. She recently published a collection of
short stories by her Columbia College students which actually got picked
up by Borders and is presumably findable around the U.S.
Mike Levy
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