All the Best Writer’s Have an MFA

Cameron Lee Cowan
6 min readOct 29, 2021

I actively avoided getting an MFA for years. An MFA is one of the degrees that people tell you not to get while likely having one. I had considered it many times, but I didn’t really see the point. Most of the time, if you go read the consensus on getting an MFA, the answer is an affirmative “no” from a number of people who incidentally all have MFAs and seem to be working in the field. I bought The Pocket MFA and felt like I got all the information that I needed. However, it became obvious to me that if I wanted to survive within this field in the modern environment, that I needed a credential…

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Cameron Lee Cowan

Creative Director of The Cameron Journal. Culture, political commentary, and much more!