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Welcome to The Forever Workshop’s MFA Newsletter, a monthly column about career advancement in the literary space. Everything published here is free to enjoy, courtesy of our partnered universities. (Not interested? Turn off emails from this column here.) Ciera here. Wiping the sweat off my brow in this August humidity. Cracking my fingers. Taping the broken stem connecting the lenses of my glasses.

Hey friends, Welcome to another edition of Tell Us Something We Don’t Know… where we ask our favorite literary experts about their specialist subject. Today, we're talking about the submissions process for indie presses with someone who has experience on both sides of the literary curtain… Kelli Russell Agodon (she/her) is a bi/queer poet, editor, book cover designer, and co-founder of Two Sylvias Press.

Hey friends, Welcome to another round of Tell Us Something We Don’t Know… where we source a panel of literary experts and ask them questions about whatever the heck.

Today’s workshop is brought to you by literary agent Erin Niumata. She’s Senior Vice President over at Folio Literary Management and has been in the publishing world for almost three decades, working on multiple NY Times Bestsellers throughout her career. She’s lectured extensively on this subject for workshops and universities over many years, and we’re excited to bring that experience and expertise into this week’s forever workshop! Welcome, Erin.

Hey friends, Welcome to another edition of Tell Us Something We Don’t Know… where we source a panel of literary experts and ask them questions about whatever the heck. Today, the heck is author marketing and our instructors are three wise women of publishing: Jane Friedman — Decodes the publishing industry for writers who'd rather not learn the hard way. Featured in The New York Times, The Atlantic, and the BBC.

Welcome to The Forever Workshop’s MFA Newsletter, a monthly column about career advancement in the literary space. Everything published here is free to enjoy, courtesy of our partnered universities. (Not interested? Turn off emails from this column here.) Low-residency MFAs are hybrid programs that allow for flexibility while earning your degree. Most programs consist of week-long residencies that take place in-person on the university’s campus and happen a few times a year.

Hey friends, Welcome to another edition of Tell Us Something We Don’t Know… where we source a panel of literary experts and ask them questions about whatever the heck. Today, the heck is sample pages and our instructors are a trio of publishing mavens: Derek Askey— Senior Editor at The Sun Rachel Dillon— Managing Editor of Ploughshares, whose work appears in the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, Pleiades, and Poet Lore. Steve Chang — Fiction Editor at Okay Donkey and MacDowell Fellow.

“Writer’s block” gets thrown around a lot in writing spaces but is rarely defined. In theory, it doesn’t need to be defined because we all know the feeling…and giving it too much attention is akin to looking at the monster too closely in a horror movie. It invites the bad thing in. But I think it’s useful to actually talk about what writer’s block means, because it comes in many different forms. Acknowledging this can help defeat it.

Hiya, welcome to The Forever Workshop. First time? Read this first » Or back again? Here’s what we’ve got for you today: A workshop for: Fiction and nonfiction writers searching for the details that will bring their stories to life. Your instructor: Andrea A. Firth, Editor at Brevity Blog and author of Everything Essay.

Hey friends, welcome to The Forever Workshop. First time? Read this. Back again? Here’s what we’ve got for you today… A workshop for: Poets who want to learn the fundamentals of sonnet structure and how to break all the rules to create boundary-pushing, emotive poetry. Your instructor: Madeleine Bazil: poet, writer, filmmaker, and author of Field Guide, an ecopoetics newsletter.