WELCOME TO CAFÉ MFA
Café MFA is a literary blog written by graduate students in American University's Creative Writing MFA program. These posts range in content including Second-Year Spotlights, coverage of local writing events, book reviews, writing tips, student work, and more! Café MFA is the lovable literary blog companion to FOLIO Literary Journal, which is also run by the graduate creative writing community here at American. We are happy to have you here!
- Hannah Cornell, EIC 2024-2026
Second-Year Spotlight: Chloe Onorato
Chloe Onorato is a second-year student who primarily writes fiction. We interviewed her to learn more about her thesis project.
MFA Students Share Their Advice: Ways to Spice Up Your Prose
We asked MFA students if they had any tips or tricks for bringing life back into their prose.
“Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine” Review
Contributor Minneh Kane reviews Gail Honeyman’s debut novel.
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