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MFA Style?

 
 
Crestmere
02:44 / 06.10.06
I posted this in Books but I was suggested that I'd probably get a better response here.

Okay, I'm really curious about this. Because I'd love someone to tell me that there's no real truth to this.

I've read a couple of things regarding this.

The first was a statement somewhere that was something like (and I so don't remember where this was) "Having the polished writing style of an MFA program."

The second was from a MySpace group and was more related to playwriting. But it had something to do with people sounding like a writer from X program.

I took a number of creative writing classes but it was at a school that didn't use an Iowa style workshop method.

So I suppose my questions are:

1. Is there such a thing as an MFA style?
2. Do certain schools have styles they prefer and try to groom people to?