It’s the last book release Tuesday of my time running my MFA program’s social media. Most of all, I’m gonna miss commenting “we’re so proud of you” on everybody’s posts

🎉🎉🎉 We are so excited to welcome two new faculty members: Elizabeth Wein and Nicole Melleby!!

Want to experience some of the best of what Hamline MFAC has to offer? Sign up for a lecture pass to learn from our fabulous faculty! ticketbud.com/events/4145b...

Honestly having to write a @hamlinemfac.bsky.social packet would probably heal me right now. Miss it so much.

A Message from Our Program Director, Mary Rockcastle:

What an opportunity! Learn from the best! @erinentrada.bsky.social @aritison.bsky.social @eliotschrefer.bsky.social @rhymeswithcapri.bsky.social @hamlinemfac.bsky.social

Want to know what an MFAC residency is like? Join us for a two-day mini virtual residency with our fabulous faculty! www.erinentradakelly.com/workshops

@bushlib.bsky.social 👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻

It’s the last day of B&N’s preorder sale! One like = one upcoming book written by a member of the MFAC community!

LETS GO CHILDRENS BOOKS!! BEST MORNING IN THE WORLD!! #alayma

We’re launching a newsletter! Storyteller’s Inkpot is now on Substack hamlinemfac.substack.com

Congratulations to alumna Melanie Sumrow (‘23) for winning an Odyssey honor for excellence in audiobooks produced for children for GIRLS LIKE US!

Congratulations to faculty member @erinentrada.bsky.social on winning her second (!) Newbery Award for THE FIRST STATE OF BEING!

First half of my third residency at @hamlinemfac.bsky.social in the books! Excited for the rest of the fabulous #kidlit lectures this week.

Rude of me to post so belatedly, but I had an absolutely lovely weekend at the @hamlinemfac.bsky.social alumni weekend. Good people with kind hearts getting together in the service of craft, of bettering themselves and others. Nothing better on this entire planet.

Residency Winter 2025 (@hamlinemfac.bsky.social) is in full effect and I’m already tired and cold and overwhelmed… and it is amazing!

Residency starts tomorrow! Who is on their way to Hamline today?

Excited to begin my second @hamlinemfac.bsky.social residency tomorrow! ✈️✈️

Early bird pricing ends today!

Alumni! Early bird pricing for alumni weekend ends on Monday, December 16. Join beloved former faculty Jackie Briggs Martin and Phyllis Root for a cozy picture book weekend! ticketbud.com/events/dbc79...

Annnnnddd that’s a wrap on semester 2!! So excited to be a part of @hamlinemfac.bsky.social.

New book alert!! CANDACE, THE UNIVERSE, AND EVERYTHING by faculty member Sherri L. Smith coming Fall 2025 from @PutnamBooks! www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Congratulations to @aimeelucido.bsky.social (‘17) and Alicia Williams (‘13)! Both alumni have books on the NYPL’s Best 100 Books for Kids 2024 list! www.nypl.org/books-more/r...

And of course, the incredible HamFam (@hamlinemfac.bsky.social) and my wonderful advisors Lisa Jahn-Clough, @coebooth.bsky.social, @thatlauraruby.bsky.social and Brandy Colbert.

Congratulations to the class of July 2024! We are so proud of the amazing work you’ve done and we can’t wait to see what you do next.

Current students and alums, like this skeet and I’ll add you to our HamFam list!

"Omniscient [POV] works best when the story is bigger than the characters." - @erinentrada.bsky.social #HamlineMFAC

"In every single thing I do, in every single thing I write, there is a love letter for someone who needs it." -Kao Kalia Yang #HamlineMFAC

"Inferring is one of the greatest pleasures as a reader. Your job as a writer is to imply. This is what 'show vs. tell' really means." -Elana K. Arnold #HamlineMFAC

We’re a low-residency MFA in writing for children and young adults and we’re finally on Bluesky! Follow us as we skeet through the rest of our summer residency.