Archive - MFA Lore

Lit Mags and Anthologies Can Help You Get Your Collection Published

Taking Anne Lamott's "bird by bird" advice up a notch

23 hrs ago • Aimee Liu

Approaching Hybrid: In Workshop with Poet Bhanu Kapil

Memoirist Sarah Townsend explores the ways we write around the edges of ourselves

Apr 8 • Writer In The World and Sarah Townsend

Well Published, Live! with Author and Literary Agent Jenna Satterthwaite

A recording from Aimee Liu's live conversation with Jenna Satterthwaite about being, getting, and working with a literary agent

Apr 4 • Aimee Liu and Jenna Satterthwaite

1:11:25

Another World in Translation

Translation is impossible, poet and translator Alastair Reid told us

Apr 1 • Writer In The World and Beatrix Gates

March 2026

Writing Prompt: CUSP

Visual inspiration + mental exercise to start your writing week

Mar 30 • Aimee Liu

What Now??? On Revising, Hiring an Editor, Launching an Author Platform, and Bugging Agents

Answers to your questions from MFA Lore's Write On! Roundup #1

Mar 28 • Aimee Liu

I Believe in Books

Reading is a spiritual practice, whether or not the texts are sacred

Mar 25 • jane wohl and Writer In The World

How Do You Characterize the Voice in Your Story?

Voice Lessons for Writers

Mar 21 • Aimee Liu

Turn the Key, an Interview with Virginia Woolf

For Women's History Month, Elena Georgiou redefines that Room of Our Own for 21st-century women

Mar 18 • Elena Georgiou and Writer In The World

Writing Prompt: PENTIMENTO

Visual inspiration + mental exercise to start your writing week

Mar 16 • Aimee Liu

The MindMelding Art of Interiority on the Page

How to represent thought in narrative: lessons from Sally Rooney

Mar 14 • Aimee Liu

What Communities Shall We Imagine to Get Us Past America?

Jan Clausen calls on U.S. writers to reject nationalism

Mar 11 • Jan Clausen and Writer In The World

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