Going to Goldsmiths!

I heard last Thursday that Goldsmiths are giving me a place on the Creatiev & Life Writing MA!

This made the last week a mad dash to get the AHRC funding form to Goldsmiths, but finally got everything sorted out yesterday for them to have it, all signed off, today. Things have been a bit manic, so I'm looking forward to a slightly less busy weekend.

And I'm also really quite excited. :-) I've realised in recent months how much I miss being part of a university ... having that social and academic network around me, and being a member of something much bigger that myself. I'm really looking forward to having access to a university library again, so that I can have somewhere quiet to work at the weekends: the public libraries nearby don't have much private study space. And I'm going to throw myself into the extra-curricular side of things, this time round ... I want to make the most of every opportunity.

Perhaps the thing that delights me most is that they think I'm good enough. Being accepted seems like more validation that I at least have the potential to be a good (great?) writer. And having my 3rd prize winning short story published on the Writing Magazine site has been an added bit of encouragement this week:
http://www.writersnews.co.uk/showcase/hale2/default.asp