Event Details

Presented by Sarah Harris Wallman, Krysia Jopek, and Michael White

The faculty of the “no residency” MFA program at Albertus Magnus College, in New Haven, Connecticut, will host a panel discussion on the usefulness of the MFA degree. What are the real advantages of getting an MFA? What kinds of MFAs are there (this is a degree that has gone from 15 programs in 1975 to 199 currently listed by Poets and Writers magazine), and what are their graduates doing? While we run a very low residency program, our faculty have attended two- or three-year residential programs (or, in one case, no MFA at all). This is an exciting degree that opens up possibilities but should not be entered into lightly: we’d like to give honest answers about the benefits and pitfalls of an advanced degree in writing.

For more information about the Festival: http://berkshirewomenwriters.org/

Major funding for the 2012 Berkshire Festival of Women Writers is provided by the local cultural councils of the Massachusetts Council on the Arts, including the towns of Alford-Egremont, Dalton, Great Barrington, Monterey, Mt. Washington, New Marlborough, Pittsfield, Richmond, Stockbridge, Washington and West Stockbridge.