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Author: Cady Vishniac
Fictionaut Cady Vishniac earned her MFA at The Ohio State University. She blogged for The MFA Years in 2015–2018 and relaunched the site as The Workshop in 2020. She's also been an editor at Reservoir, The Journal, and Raleigh Review. Her stories have appeared in Glimmer Train, New Stories from the Midwest, New England Review, Joyland, etc.
Cady started a PhD in 2018, but academia is dying and hostile to caretakers, so she left to work a series of editorial and social media gigs. It's going well. So well, in fact, that she conceived The Grind, our alt-ac careers column.
Email Cady at cady@readtheworkshop.com.
How Not to Follow Up
Hey, writers, let's talk submissions again! It's been a while. I've previously written about what cover letters should look like, what stories you should probably not show litmags, other stories you should probably not show litmags, etc. I'd like to add to this a list of behavior you should never ever indulge in when following… Continue reading How Not to Follow Up
Don’t Work Your Way Up, Actually
Why take yourself out of the running for the thing you really want?
Let’s Find You Some Help
You should show your actual writing to as many people as possible, getting all the advice you can wrangle out of them, before you spend hundreds of dollars applying for grad school. In this article I list specific venues for you to get critiques from other people.
The Only Cover Letter Template You’ll Ever Need
Once, in undergrad, I submitted a story I wrote for my sophomore workshop to n + 1 and got a positive response, an interest in putting the thing in their next online issue if I could only revise it enough. I couldn’t revise it enough, because I was secretly the newest of writers, and anyway,… Continue reading The Only Cover Letter Template You’ll Ever Need