{"id":1124,"date":"2025-04-24T21:17:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T21:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmlynchwriter.com\/?p=1124"},"modified":"2025-05-08T21:24:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T21:24:48","slug":"mfa-grad-creates-financial-award-to-help-other-writers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmlynchwriter.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/24\/mfa-grad-creates-financial-award-to-help-other-writers\/","title":{"rendered":"MFA graduate creates financial award to help other writers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1664px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p><em><span class=\"x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs xlh3980 xvmahel x1n0sxbx x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h\" dir=\"auto\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1126 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mmlynchwriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/MML-Photo-for-Kings-interview.jpeg?resize=300%2C290&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Margaret Lynch MFA award photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mmlynchwriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/MML-Photo-for-Kings-interview.jpeg?resize=200%2C193&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mmlynchwriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/MML-Photo-for-Kings-interview.jpeg?resize=300%2C290&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mmlynchwriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/MML-Photo-for-Kings-interview.jpeg?resize=400%2C386&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mmlynchwriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/MML-Photo-for-Kings-interview.jpeg?resize=600%2C579&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mmlynchwriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/MML-Photo-for-Kings-interview.jpeg?resize=768%2C742&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mmlynchwriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/MML-Photo-for-Kings-interview.jpeg?resize=800%2C773&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mmlynchwriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/MML-Photo-for-Kings-interview.jpeg?resize=1024%2C989&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mmlynchwriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/MML-Photo-for-Kings-interview.jpeg?w=1166&amp;ssl=1 1166w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Now, more than ever, it\u2019s time to help other writers find their voice.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Alum Margaret Lynch, who wrote about her near-death bout with leukemia, donates $50,000 to support would-be writers<\/p>\n<p>With the deep belief that it is never too late to go back to school, Toronto writer Margaret Lynch, MFA\u201920, has become King\u2019s first MFA alum to create a named financial award for students in the <a href=\"https:\/\/ukings.ca\/area-of-study\/master-of-fine-arts-in-creative-nonfiction\/\">MFA in Creative Nonfiction<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/ukings.ca\/area-of-study\/master-of-fine-arts-in-fiction\/\">MFA in Fiction<\/a> programs. Her gift of $50,000 ($10,000 per year over five years) is part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/ukings.ca\/alumni\/giving\/welcoming-future-kings\/\">Welcoming: The Future King\u2019s<\/a> campaign to create opportunities for people to make the leap. \u201cIn the face of this \u2018upside down world\u2019 we\u2019re living in now, it\u2019s important that I stay connected to my humanity and do things that help other people,\u201d says Margaret, who entered the Creative Nonfiction program at age 61.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKing\u2019s was one of those life-changing moments for me\u2026. I found my voice at King\u2019s through the writing and also verbally, and so that\u2019s a real gift later in life.\u201d The year she graduated, Margaret won the 2020 Penguin Random House Best Nonfiction Book Proposal Prize for best book proposal by a King\u2019s Creative Nonfiction student. Winning the prize \u201cgave me a boost. It gave me encouragement to keep going.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>When My DNA Changed, So Did I<\/em>, her book-length manuscript, details her journey to \u201cbecome a better person\u201d after a rare leukemia invaded her body. Margaret, who was hospitalized for six months at Toronto\u2019s Princess Margaret Hospital in 1988 when she was 30, nearly died from experimental leukemia treatments. She was saved by a bone marrow transplant that \u201cshould not have worked,\u201d impelling her to prioritize her health and take more risks. \u201cI thought, okay, if I get a second chance, I\u2019m going to turn this ship around.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After retiring in 2015, she began taking writing courses, mostly to help her understand \u201cthis bonus life\u201d she had been given. Although her stories resonated with people, Margaret hesitated to apply to King\u2019s MFA program because she had no undergraduate degree. Eventually, she composed a winning application letter. \u201cI wrote my heart into it and then I waited until the day before the deadline to apply because I thought, there\u2019s just no way they\u2019re going to accept me\u2014absolutely no way.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/ukings.ca\/news\/mfa-graduate-creates-financial-award\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the full story on the King&#8217;s website (April 24, 2025)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Beginning in 2025, the Margaret Lynch MFA Award will be given annually to students entering the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction and the Master of Fine Arts in Fiction. 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