Project Period Annotations

 Introduction to Project Period Annotations

During the project period, MFA students are required to email monthly annotations (books or individual short story or poem annotations) to their mentors. The length and style of these annotations will vary according to genre and mentor. At the end of every term, students must combine the annotations into a single short annotated bibliography, which will comprise brief versions of the annotations with Modern Language Association (MLA) formatting for the citations.  The short annotated bibliography is emailed to mentors before the end of each term. 

Exemptions:

During the third project period when a student is working on a long critical paper (15-page), annotations are optional. Annotations are required for all fourth-term students, even if the student has chosen to write annotations in the third term or has already completed the 30 annotations minimum. Because their time in the program is shortened, Advanced Standing students are required to write annotations during all terms. Students who have had their long critical papers waived must also write annotations during all terms.

Papers that are sent to mentors ONLY (do not send these to the MFApaperwork account):

Review the resources below before sending project period annotations to your mentor.

Before you submit:

Templates

How to Download Templates

Project Period Annotations Guidelines_2.2023.pdf
Short Annotated Bibliography Template_2.2023.docx
Short Annotated Bibliography Formatting Checklist_2.2023.docx

Monthly Book Annotation Samples: Prose & Poetry

Dennehy--Annotation of Kaminsky.pdf

Deaf Republic

Merry Dennehy

Fant_WadeIntheWater.pdf

Wade in the Water

Barbara Fant

Gevorkian_WintersBone.pdf

Winter's Bone: A Novel

Sona Gevorkian

Haas_ The Correspondence by J.D.pdf

The Correspondence by J.D. Daniels

Sarah Haas

Henderson_TooLoudASolitude.pdf

Books, Homes, and Human Beings – Two Long Sentences in Too Loud a Solitude

Jasper Henderson

Lovato_Victory Lap.pdf

It’s a Thin Line Between the Love of Comedy and Hate of Tragedy: An Annotation of George Saunders’ Victory Lap

Roberto Lovato

Love_Orange World.pdf

Orange World and Other Stories

Garuda Love

Nakamura_The Year of Blue Water.pdf

The Year of Blue Water

Jordan Nakamura

Monthly Annotation Samples: Writing for the Screen/Playwriting 

Halton_Minari.pdf

Minari by Lee Isaac Chung
Ty Halton

Us by Jordan Peele_Ty Halton.pdf

Us by Jordan Peel
Ty Halton

Richards_Red.pdf

Red by John Logan
John Richards