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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 m...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 beautifu...

    • 28 min

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