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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s not a good idea. Find local writing classes. Many are filled with older people and professionals. They will be accepting and will help you with your writing goals. Consider going to conferences if you can get time away in the summer — [b]Breadloaf is famous but there are others that are shorter, less expensive, and less IMO stodgy.[/b] There are people of all ages and backgrounds there and a very cool community develops.

Why not an MFA? First, because you will be paying for a masters degree and will have to fulfill the university requirements. At my MFA that included passing a second language exam, taking some literary theory, taking weird courses only tangentially related to writing that we were required to take because the department wanted to fill the course, etc. second, because it will be hard to find a peer group. The oldest student in my MFA was in his late thirties and he was considered amusingly old. There was some pressure on my program to go on for a PhD in creative writing (esp for poets) and many did. [/quote]

In your opinion? Stodgy? What is your opinion based on? Because I've been and it was magical and not remotely "stodgy." [/quote]
Breadloaf is not stodgy! [/quote]

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