Archive - MFA Lore

Writers, Acknowledge the Monster Within

There's something perverse in all of us that demands honest exploration

Feb 22, 2025 • Aimee Liu

Is Your Novel or Memoir Confessing Trauma, or Confiding Truth?

One approach gets the story out, but the other invites the reader in

Oct 20, 2024 • Aimee Liu

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

Authors Unfiltered: On Agents!

Watch now | Traditional publishing insights from the trenches

Jun 21, 2025 • Aimee Liu, Katie Gee Salisbury, and Darien Gee

53:13

What Agents and Editors Crave: A Core Concept That's Unique, Universal, & Urgent

UUU is the Secret Sauce of Creative Success

May 10, 2025 • Aimee Liu

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

Family Secrets: A Storyteller’s Bounty, or Curse?

Authors weigh in on airing their families' unmentionables-- in print

Apr 5, 2025 • Aimee Liu, Colette Sartor, and Toni Ann Johnson

Requiem for an MFA Program

Goddard's closure signals a deepening loss for society

Apr 13, 2024 • Aimee Liu

Acceptance Never Gets Old, Writing Never Gets Easy

Celebrate the fruit of writing, and let the petals fall

Jan 4, 2025 • Aimee Liu

Finding Words For the Unspeakable

One writer's greater purpose than to be produced or published

May 7, 2025 • Aimee Liu and Darrah Cloud

NEW Writerly Wisdom From Publishing Pros I Know!

Resources, inspiration, and expertise I can vouch for

Mar 5, 2025 • Aimee Liu

How MFA Students Learn to Read Like Writers

Or, What the heck is an annotation?

Jun 8, 2024 • Aimee Liu and The Epicanthic

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