How to Pick an MFA Program
Faculty, program type, format, and size are just a few of factors to consider when finding a school that suits who you are as a writer.
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Format: In Print and Online
How to Keep Hold of 120,000 Words—or, How to Work With a Manuscript in Word
Clever use of the software’s Headings tools can make even the most beastly manuscript easier to wrangle.
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How to Make the Most of Your Time in an MFA
Time well-spent in grad school means “learning to labor in language in such a way that you’ve made yourself worthy of the next labor.”
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How to Write the Personal Essay for MFA Applications
Use your essay to answer the question: Devoting two years to writing can be a dream come true, but why is it your dream?
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How to Keep Writing When You’re Convinced Your Book Is a Disaster
When feeling beaten by your manuscript, come back to the page with humility and curiosity, and remember the ways that this work feeds you.
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The Anthologist: A Compendium of Uncommon Collections
An introduction to three new anthologies, including The People’s Project: Poems, Essays, and Art for Looking Forward and Both/And: Essays by Trans and Gender-Nonconforming Writers of Color.
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Agents & Editors: Katie Raissian
An executive editor at Scribner, previously a senior editor at Grove Atlantic, Katie Raissian talks about learning to be fearless, what grabs her in a query, and the art of publishing books.
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How to Protect Your Time
Carrying a stroller down the subway steps is a good use of your time; doomscrolling and social media are not. Fight for time for the things you love and put your writing at the top of that list.
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Looking for Love in a Time of Global Loneliness: A Profile of Kiran Desai
In her third novel, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, which comes out nearly twenty years after her Booker Prize–winning The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai considers loneliness in all its states of loss and heartache, possibility and promise, through the lens of a love story.
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How to Write an Author Bio
Keep it simple, or do like Nora Ephron and consider what defines you.
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