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Archive for May, 2010

Finding the Creative Joy

Guest on May 04 2010 | Filed under: Inspirations

Today’s guest post comes from Heather Reid. Heather was a finalist for our Unpubbed Author contributor. We loved her sample, which is graceful and powerful. We were charmed by her whimsy and sense of humor, because, in her own words: I’m a geeky Texan living in England, married to a Scotsman. Doesn’t that make me [...]

do you need an MFA?

Jael McHenry on May 03 2010 | Filed under: Book Talk, CRAFT

So here’s the question: do you need an MFA? Answer: No. (Score! Shortest. Column. Ever.) But here’s what happens if you ask the question in a slightly different way. Question: Could you benefit from an MFA? Answer: Almost definitely. A little background: My senior year of college, I applied to the most selective MFA programs in [...]

The Battle of the Query

Anne Greenwood Brown on May 01 2010 | Filed under: Business, CRAFT

Please welcome Anne Brown to WU. Anne was one of our finalists in the hunt for a WU Unpubbed Writer. We know you’ll love her essay on, “THE BATTLE OF THE QUERY AS TOLD BY ONE IN THE TRENCHES” as much as we did. And visiting her blog, I just learned she recently had her [...]

Comic: “The Pitch Session”

Debbie Ohi on May 01 2010 | Filed under: Humor

Thanks to Writer Unboxed for letting me inflict my comics on WU’s readership! I’ll be posting comics on Writer Unboxed every other weekend. Today’s comic was inspired by the title of the recent pitch article by JC Hutchins. In case you’re curious (I was), the word “pitch” originated around c. 1200, when it mean “to [...]