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Join us as we explore how to make your MFA in Creative Writing pay on our new podcast, MFA Payday!Through interviews with MFA graduates, publishing industry insiders, and more, we will share the most up-to-date info on what to do with that degree in your hand. Get your FREE pitch submission tracker at www.mfapayday.com. 

MFA Payday Barry and Drēma Drudge

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Join us as we explore how to make your MFA in Creative Writing pay on our new podcast, MFA Payday!Through interviews with MFA graduates, publishing industry insiders, and more, we will share the most up-to-date info on what to do with that degree in your hand. Get your FREE pitch submission tracker at www.mfapayday.com. 

    Andrew Najberg Reads His Lyrical Fiction, Discusses Its Origins

    Andrew Najberg Reads His Lyrical Fiction, Discusses Its Origins

    Andrew Najberg returns with a couple of short readings from his forthcoming releases and a discussion of the origins of his novels.  You don't want to miss this! 

    www.mfapayday.com 

    • 57 min
    Once Upon a Disney Podcast Co-hosts, Larry Brenner and Andie Redwine

    Once Upon a Disney Podcast Co-hosts, Larry Brenner and Andie Redwine

    Our guests on this episode are the co-hosts of Once upon a Disney Podcast, Larry Brenner and Andie Redwine.  

    Check out their Facebook fan page https://www.facebook.com/onceuponadisneypodcast, and listen to their podcast most any place where podcasts can be heard. 

    • 43 min
    Sweet Tea, Country Music, and Some Southern-Fried Woolf: an Interview with Author Drēma Drudge

    Sweet Tea, Country Music, and Some Southern-Fried Woolf: an Interview with Author Drēma Drudge

    Here's an interview with the co-host of MFA Payday, Drēma Drudge. 
    Her bio: 
    "Welcome! I’m Drēma Drudge, author. From reading cereal boxes on the breakfast table when I was a wee thing to reading my first chapter book in a mimosa tree which birthed my love for novels and twinned it with my affection for trees, the written word and I have been fast friends forever. I’ve also been writing in one capacity or another since I was about nine, starting with terrible poems and graduating to melodramatic stories in junior high. (No one explained to me then that my beloved books came from the destruction of my (almost) equally beloved trees!)
    Mercifully, I eventually discovered that there are books, classes, and programs on writing and I learned how to write! Now I have an MFA in Creative Writing.
    Read more about my books.
    I’m married to the incomparable Barry Drudge, musician (and writer) extraordinaire. We have two grown children, and we live in a charming small town filled with plenteous, splendid, trees and wide Victorian homes.
    Barry and I have been privileged to travel to some really cool places. My first novel ended up being written in six countries! As a result of our travels, I’ve ended up writing in some fascinating, gorgeous places, such as sitting in a pew in the Pantheon in Rome and writing in Recoleta Cemetery in Argentina. I’ve visited the homes, birthplaces, and graves of many of my writing and art heroes and have often had the opportunity to write in or about those very places, something my younger self never imagined possible."

    Southern-Fried Woolf
    Briscoe Chambers is not only the manager of her country music star husband, but a graduate student trying to complete her Virginia Woolf thesis by fall – the same time her cheating husband, Michael, has an album due to avoid being in breach of contract. No problem, right?
    Except his co-writer will be Velvet Wickens, his idol who has been opening shows for him. And who happens to be the one he’s cheating with. Now Briscoe has been asked by their record label to ensure the album gets finished on time. To accomplish this, they must all live together for the duration of the writing of the album.
    And by the way, Briscoe knows, and it’s triggering coping mechanisms she had thought were long gone.
    Fans of the writing of both Taylor Jenkins Reid and Virginia Woolf will enjoy this novel that has plenty of sweet tea, country music, Virginia Woolf, and heartache. In addition, the reader gets to watch over Briscoe’s shoulder as she crafts her essay and attempts to untangle her troubled marriage.
    Sign up for a free story over at  www.dremadrudge.com. 

    • 51 min
    Helen Zuman, Harvard Graduate and Award-Winning Memoirist, Talks about her Half-FA

    Helen Zuman, Harvard Graduate and Award-Winning Memoirist, Talks about her Half-FA

    Recently we had a fascinating conversation with Helen Zuman. 


    Bio:
    After graduating from Harvard in 1999, Helen Zuman joined a cult—oops!—stayed for five years, then composted the stinky guck of that experience into fertile soil via Mating in Captivity, her award-winning memoir. Next, she published What Is a Sex Cult? How Cults Reveal Our Culture. As of 2023, she is working on a novel, provisionally titled Common App, in which a college application essay editor compromises the Republicrat candidate’s chances of winning the 2024 presidential election by taking creative license with his son’s Common App Personal Statement. Born in London and raised in Brooklyn, Helen currently homesteads with her husband in Beacon, New York, while dreaming of her next trip to Scotland. She listens to her favorite song, “Scotland the Brave,” three times a day. To stay in touch, sign up for her email list at helenzuman.com.  

    • 37 min
    MFA PAYDAY MINI: ON A BEACHY ARTISTS' DATE WITH BARRY AND DREMA

    MFA PAYDAY MINI: ON A BEACHY ARTISTS' DATE WITH BARRY AND DREMA

    Just stopping in to say a quick hey from a beach on Lake Michigan and encourage you to find your happy place  and tell you to take a well-deserved artist's date! 

    • 2 min
    Hearts Forged in Resistance: Chella Courington's Evocative New Poetry Collection

    Hearts Forged in Resistance: Chella Courington's Evocative New Poetry Collection

    Friend of the podcast, Chella Courington, returns to read from her “Hearts Forged in Resistance.”

    Chella Courington returns to our podcast to share her latest release, a dynamic volume of poetry called “Hearts Forged in Resistance,” pre-order price guaranteed until September 8, 2023. The book will be released by Finishing Line Press on November 10, 2023. 
    Listen to us speak with Chella about her hauntingly vivid poems and hear her read on this episode. You don’t want to miss this beautiful language and these evocative images, flowers of words, all. 
    (And hear her husband, Ted, say hello in the background now and again.) 
    Learn more about her on her website. 

    And if you haven't subscribed to our newsletter, why not do it now? 

    • 28 min

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