I have been waiting a week to say anything, but now that it's officially official I can hold it back no longer.

USC has accepted me to their Ph.D. program in Creative Writing and Literature. They're going to pay my tuition and I'm going to get paid! I was offered an Assistant Lectureship position, so that means I'll be teaching classes in the Fall!

I applied to 5 graduate school programs in January: Emerson, CalArts, UC Irvine, Western Michigan University, all of which were Master of Fine Arts programs. I applied to USC's Ph.D. program more out of curiosity because they didn't require a MFA to be completed before entering their program. It was a "shoot for the moon" thing. Out of all the schools to accept me, I didn't expect USC to be the one. Especially after my rejection letter form them in March! And they didn't even get my name right! Haha!

But my favorite living modern-day poet, David St. John, is a faculty member at USC. He teaches poetry, obviously. He called me and said that they loved my work so much they were pulling strings to get extra funding for the program since usually they only admit 2 fiction and 2 poetry candidates. They love my work!

Suck on that Aero Film!

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at May 19, 2005 5:11 AM  Power_Overwhelming said...

Woo hoo! Congratulations Jilly!

 

at May 19, 2005 5:36 AM  Ish said...

I'm not even slightly surprised, but I'm sure its nice to have someone besides me telling you how good the work is. Since I'm pretty useless at getting you a job.

Congratulations, I'm excited for you.

 

at May 20, 2005 6:19 PM  Alex_Knight said...

HUZZAH! Way to go!
I like good news.

 

at May 22, 2005 5:27 PM  Princess Blogonoke said...

Hurray! Hurray Hurray Hurray!!!! Congratulations!

(Sorry I'm so late, I haven't been on the internet much lately.)