I was eight and journaling and writing bad poetry. I didn’t think then about “being a writer”; I just was one.
For me, fleshing out ideas and revising my work are the most frustrating and correspondingly rewarding aspects of writing.
Really, everything. But the most gratifying aspect of teaching is seeing writers take feedback and make it their own, and seeing their work improve as a result.
On Becoming a Novelist, by the late John Gardner, and Hold the Dark, by William Giraldi.
“Craft enables art.” From Steering the Craft, by Ursula Le Guin.
By Liz Matthews Have you ever perused our website and noticed the initials “MS” next to some of our workshoptitles, and wondered what does that stand for? We are proud to offer workshops for writers of alllevels and all genres throughout the year. In many of our introductory workshops, our
Janae is a New York Times bestselling author who received her M.F.A. in Writing for Children from The New School (2010). Earlier in her professional career, she got an inside look at the publishing world while spending seven years working for Simon & Schuster. In 2020, she published her debut
