Sitemap - 2026 - MFA Lore
Writing About War & Writing for Peace
Your Least Obvious Perspective is Memoir's Most Important POV
Beyond the MFA Workshop: A Conversation with Novelist and Literary Luminary Aimee Liu
For Disability Pride Month: Contested Spaces
Well Published! with Robinne Lee on the Long Road to “Overnight” Success
The Magic, Menace, and Meaning of Metaphor as Literary Code
How Long Should Your Story Be, and Who's Your Audience?
What’s the Moral Structure of Your Story? Push Beyond Right and Wrong to Upside Down
Writers, Don't Despair. Connect!
Mine "The Gap"! McKee, Aristotle, and the Art of Surprise in Storytelling
The New American Story Project Cares, Do You?
A Year of MFA Lore for 30% off
Story Structure: Lessons That Have Stood the Test of Time
Metaphortography Writing Prompt: TENDERNESS
Bestselling Supernova Jenna Blum on Her New Send-up of the Book World: 'Murder Your Darlings'!
Why Read the Book If You Can't Stand the Author?
Edit Your Prose to Make It MATTER!
Epistolary: Why Compose in Correspondence?
Is Your Novel Meant to be a Short Story?
The Vital Service That Authors Need & Few Book Publicists Even Mention
Make a Haven of Your Writing Life (and Substack Publication) with the 7 D's
Dare We Write Through the Bodies of "Others"?
Should You Kill, Cut, or Keep Your Characters? (In Memoir, Too!)
The Transformative Magic of a Great MFA
Lit Mags and Anthologies Can Help You Get Your Collection Published
Approaching Hybrid: In Workshop with Poet Bhanu Kapil
Well Published, Live! with Author and Literary Agent Jenna Satterthwaite
What Now??? On Revising, Hiring an Editor, Launching an Author Platform, and Bugging Agents
How Do You Characterize the Voice in Your Story?
Turn the Key, an Interview with Virginia Woolf
The MindMelding Art of Interiority on the Page
What Communities Shall We Imagine to Get Us Past America?
For the Love of Literary Writing, Start Here!
The Only True Republic For Which We Stand is Our Imagination, or How to 'Read at Whim'
Which of These Keys Will Unlock Your Story's Meaning?
Well Published via Contests! Live with Aimee Liu & Toni Ann Johnson
Create to Survive! Live with Aimee Liu, Elena Georgiou, & Sherri L. Smith
Tried & True Rules for a Superlative Writing Group
What "Are You Writing?" Truly Means Among Writers
What Gives a Story Structural Integrity?
Well Published, Live! with Christine Sneed
'Careless People' is a Model MWAM [Memoir With A Mission]
Authors, Beware of the Latest "Book Group" Scams
Things I Wish I’d Known When I Graduated from My MFA Program