I turn 30 this weekend! (I'm hoping the exclamation mark makes it less of a terrifying new phase of life) When I started the MFA Years I thought I'd blog a lot more; after years of writing fiction around the day job, I was finally headed to grad school and the full time writing life. I would… Continue reading On Grief, Publishing Your First Novel, and Turning 30
Author: Rachel Heng
Rachel Heng blogged for The MFA Years in 2017 and 2018. Her novel, Suicide Club, was published in 2018 by Sceptre, Hachette, and Henry Holt, Macmillan. Her fiction has appeared in Best Small Fictions, Glimmer Train, McSweeney’s, Best New Singaporean Short Stories, Kenyon Review, and Guernica. She was born in Singapore, went to school in New York, and worked in London before moving to Austin to earn her MFA at the Michener Center for Writers. Find Rachel at her website, rachelhengqp.com.
On applying
Photo: Bryan Jones I was going to write a post about my first month at Michener, but since I've been getting a bunch of application-related questions from people on Draft, I thought it might be helpful to do an 'applying to MFAs' post. A version of this post appeared previously on my own blog, so… Continue reading On applying
Rachel Heng Introduction (Michener Center for Writers ’20)
Image: Nick Page In two days I will fly to Austin to start my MFA, but for now I find myself in the living room of my flat in London, surrounded by very large piles of clothes. Turns out shipping things across the Atlantic is eye-wateringly expensive (duh, what did I think), so I’ve spent… Continue reading Rachel Heng Introduction (Michener Center for Writers ’20)