![]() ![]() Find him at his website and on Twitter episode was requested by Tammy Breitweiser, Esty Downes, and April Ahmed. He is a current second-year MFA candidate in fiction at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, the Watson Foundation, and the University of Iowa, and his poems, stories, and essays can be found in publications including The New England Review, The American Poetry Review, and Guernica. Steven Duong is a writer from San Diego, California. On this episode, Steven Duong and Jared discuss whether Iowa lives up to its competitive stereotype, the challenges and freedoms of playing with writing conventions and constraints, and why he-a long-time poet-decided to pursue a fiction degree. Leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts, Podchaser, or Podcast Addict.Įmail: to Season 3! It’s finally time to tackle the oldest and most famous MFA of them all: the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. New episodes are released every two weeks. MFA Writers is hosted by Jared McCormack and produced by Jared McCormack and Hanamori Skoblow. ![]() This episode was requested by Erika Walsh. She lives between Buffalo and Western Massachusetts, where she is an MFA candidate in poetry at UMass Amherst. She is also the founding editor-in-chief of Peach Mag and an editorial advisor to Foundlings Press. Her poems and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Bennington Review, Electric Literature, Literary Hub, Pretty Cool Poetry Thing, Metatron Press, Shabby Doll House, Salt Hill Journal, and elsewhere. She is the author of the poetry collection That Ex (Big Lucks Books, 2020) and the chapbooks Comeback (Foundlings Press, 2021), Feel Royal (b l u s h, 2019), and Personal & Generic (PressBoardPress, 2016). Rachelle Toarmino is a poet, editor, and educator from Niagara Falls, New York. She chats with Jared about her own writing career, including finding and using playfulness in her poetry, coping with MFA faculty turnover through collective cohort support, and how learning a second language opened her mind to poetic craft. You can find more MFA Writers at .Įmail: the editor-in-chief of Peach Mag, Rachelle Toarmino is consistently focused on the work of others. Find her on Twitter and on TikTok at Writers is hosted by Jared McCormack and produced by Jared McCormack and Hanamori Skoblow. She holds a BA in Journalism from The University of La Verne and is currently pursuing an MFA in creative nonfiction in the University of California Riverside’s Palm Desert Low-Residency program. She has written for the New York Times, InStyle Magazine, Cosmopolitan, VICE, Los Angeles Magazine, The Fix, The Hollywood Reporter, People and elsewhere, including for the Southern California News Group where she won a third place award for best news feature with the LA Press Club in 2022. Martin is an independent journalist based in Los Angeles, CA. She joins Jared to talk about how her program has helped her craft her memoir-in-progress, the fear and reward of vulnerability in creative nonfiction, and how writing lets us acknowledge and redefine our pasts.Įmily St. Martin, having met her best friends in her MFA, says absolutely yes. Apply to be a guest on the show by filling out our application.Įmail: you find a close community in a low-res program? Emily St. If there’s a program you’d like to learn more about, contact us and we’ll do our very best to find a guest who can speak to their experience. Leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts. You can find him on Twitter Writers is hosted by Jared McCormack and produced by Jared McCormack and Hanamori Skoblow. He recently attended the Tin House Summer Workshop and will begin his position as Managing Editor of The Bellingham Review in the fall. He is currently an MFA Candidate at Western Washington University where he is at work on his thesis - a collection of short stories. His work has appeared in Hobart, 805 Lit + Art, The Los Angeles Review, and elsewhere. ![]() Sean Dolan is a fiction writer from Missouri. Plus, he and Jared talk about how they return to the page even when it’s hard, the blurred line between autofiction and fiction, and, in Sean’s words, “the ephemeral experience of a short story.” In this episode, Sean Dolan shares what he did differently his second time around that strengthened his application and landed him a spot in a fully-funded, genre-flexible program. It’s increasingly common for writers to get accepted in their second (or third) attempts at MFA applications. ![]()
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