Archive - MFA Lore

Well Published! Mega-bestselling Christina Baker Kline on Bad Editors, Hooking Readers, and Challenging Yourself as a Writer

A recording from Aimee Liu's live series on the art and business of getting... well published!

Apr 29 • Aimee Liu and Christina Baker Kline

48:39

Make a Haven of Your Writing Life (and Substack Publication) with the 7 D's

You don't need a physical writing retreat to retreat into writing

Apr 25 • Aimee Liu

Dare We Write Through the Bodies of "Others"?

Susan Kim on the treacherous imperative of writing past our own physical experience

Apr 22 • Writer In The World

Should You Kill, Cut, or Keep Your Characters? (In Memoir, Too!)

Use them, or lose them, but don’t let them linger on the page just because “they were really there”

Apr 18 • Aimee Liu

The Transformative Magic of a Great MFA

Em Bowen answers the age-old question: Why get an MFA? To learn how to tear the flesh that will catch the first "fish" of your writing life.

Apr 15 • Writer In The World

Writing Prompt: INTERIOR

Visual inspiration + mental exercise to start your writing week

Apr 13 • Aimee Liu

Lit Mags and Anthologies Can Help You Get Your Collection Published

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

Apr 11 • 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

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