After submitting nearly 100 pages of material for my review, I felt that I’d done my best and it was now up to my review panel of two (my supervisor and the director of the creative writing program) to tell me what they thought. I pretty much knew what Dr. Schad thought, since we meet…
If you’ve been following me on Facebook, you’ll know that I was recently in England doing some steampunk research (tidbits of which will appear on this blog, even though I’m the world’s worst blogger). Anyway, part of the trip was a visit to Lancaster University. You know me–all about the onsite research. I met my dissertation…
I just spent five hours on the Grants.gov website, which involved filling out three forms, creating three documents, and logging in at least 20 times. And I thought the Copyright Office’s website was bad! At least you don’t have to re-login every time you hit a button. Whoever is doing the programming for the feds, they…
After the application and the acceptance, it seems that the next thing a girl has to do is line up funding for her program. For overseas students, the PhD in Creative Writing program at Lancaster costs 13,930 pounds, or about US$17,415 per year (comprising three quarters of 10 weeks each). For UK/EU students, it’s less than half that,…
I heard this morning from Lancaster University in England: “I am writing to advise you that the University is pleased to make you an offer of a place for postgraduate study, as detailed below.” Shriek! I’ve been accepted into the Ph.D. in Creative Writing program, to start in October 2017. The title of my research…