“There are several valuable lessons I’ve learned from my experience—none of which I understood before or even upon finishing my MFA—that I believe every writer considering a graduate degree in writing (or those who have recently received one) should know.”
Read the rest of my article/essay, just posted on the Poets & Writers site to accompany the September/October MFA issue.
It has been a very busy time! Things are buzzing along at my new job as Media Editor with Fig Tree Books (FTB). You may have noticed that the FTB Twitter account is active. Yesterday, we created our Facebook page. Along with our webmaster, I’ve been making some edits to our website. I’ve been digging in to our forthcoming books (our first list will be announced in September–stay tuned for that news).
Beyond the job, I’m still working on one outstanding freelance assignment, fielding responses (okay, rejections–but nice ones!) for my oft-cited literary humor piece and a new poem, and awaiting edits on a couple of other pieces that are in the print-and-virtual-works. Over the weekend, I also managed to sneak away from the city for my first visit to the annual Authors Night at the East Hampton Library (I was in reader mode, not author mode).
As I said, it has been busy!
Before signing off here, I want to thank all of you who have congratulated me–publicly or privately–on the new gig with FTB. Your thoughtfulness means more than you know.
And–I have to say it: Extra-special thanks to everyone who has heeded my request and followed FTB on Twitter. It is never too late to join us there, and I hope that you’ll choose to do so.
So, here’s the big news:
You can also read the announcement on the Fig Tree Books website. And please, please, please: follow @FigTreeBks on Twitter. Thank you!
I don’t know–maybe my online universe is expanding–but within the past week or so there’s been a wave of happy news shared by *several* people in my writing community. These are genuinely nice people as well as genuinely gifted writers, so I’m moved to give them all a public shout-out right here.
Many hearty congratulations to all.
Want to let us in on good news about any of the writers in your circle? Why not do so here, in comments?
Well, I finally finished and submitted that review-essay assignment I’ve been talking about. I’ve also begun sending out the new poem I mentioned here not long ago. And I’m still hopeful about that literary humor piece–waiting for news back from some editors on that.
Meantime, I’ve just returned from a few lovely days visiting family. We made multiple visits to a local bookshop, where I snapped the photo to the left. Thought that you’d all appreciate it.
More next week!