OSU-Cascades Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing

Our goal, quite simply: to think seriously about why we write how we do, whom we hope to reach by writing in this way, and how to do it better.

Sophomoric Summer Reading Lists

Remember Way Back When… It’s the end of your sophomore year of high school and: you’re preparing for finals, hoping that you’ll pass algebra 2 so that you’ll get to be … Continue reading →

June 30, 2014 · 7 Comments

Protected: The Quilts are Falling into the Lake (what do we do?!): Shared Sonnet Space

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Protected: Vertical Interrogation For Strangers

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Reflections on the June 2014 Residency

Ask my past undergrad self about his vision of grad school, and he would say, “I don’t know. A lot of work, but similar to what I’ve been doing for … Continue reading →

June 12, 2014 · 2 Comments

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Cascades Adventure

In the mountainside arts center we call home for 10 days twice a year, everyone is responsible for his or her own education, setting individual goals and urged toward discipline and self-realization in an atmosphere that emphasizes creating across genres and valuing process over product, with faculty who believe passionately in this approach.

Alliances

The basic premise behind our alliances is, quite simply, this: we are all better—as writers, as explorers of consciousness, as artists and, by extension, risk takers—when we create together. It also helps to play around: like the Surrealists, with their parlor games. Or the Beats, with their cutups. Or a third-grade poet writing there are more yeses than no’s.

The Oregon Way

Residences are an opportunity to create, to learn more about the contemporary writing scene, to tackle the challenges of the creative life, to brainstorm solutions, to share resources, and to get inspired by 120 acres of old-growth forest, a collapsed volcano, and Oregon’s second deepest lake, all while the sun sets on one mountain and then the next.

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