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June 9, 2016September 23, 2020Emily CorwinLeave a Comment on On Anxiety & Writing in the MFA

On Anxiety & Writing in the MFA

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Last but not least, meet I Applied To MFAs: What’s Next? webinar (free registration at readtheworkshop.com/events) panelist Krys Malcolm Belc! @krysbelc (@northernmichiganu) is the author of the memoir The Natural Mother of the Child (@counterpointpress), forthcoming in June. He has also written a chapbook of flash nonfiction, In Transit (@cupboardpamphlet) and his essays have appeared in @granta_magazine, The Rumpus, @blackwarriorrev, and elsewhere. Krys lives in Philadelphia with his partner and their three children and works as an Education Coordinator in the Cancer Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. We can’t wait to learn from him on Sunday, March 14th at 4PM Eastern!

Up next in our I Applied To MFAs: What’s Next? webinar (free registration at readtheworkshop.com/events) panelist lineup, it’s Shelley Senai! @shelleysenai is a recent graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at @warrenwilsoncollege and currently serves as the assistant fiction editor at Raleigh Review. Her work can be found in @citronreview and Reservoir Journal. In 2018, she received an emerging artist award from the St. Botolph Club Foundation in Boston. She resides outside of Boston with her husband and two young children, and is currently finishing her first novel. Find Shelley at her website, shelleysenai.com. And at our panel for creative writing MFA applicants on Sunday, March 14th at 4PM Eastern!

Introducing our next panelist! @catleeches (@ua_creativewriting) is a writer, editor, and adjunct. They currently live in East Dallas. Their work has appeared in @passagesnorth, @midamericanreview, @hfrlitmag, and other journals. They have a chapbook, THE CONNOISSEUR (@gardendoorpress), and a cat named Dirtbike. Find them on Twitter @Lizard_Eyes. And come learn from them at our I Applied to MFAs: What’s Next? webinar on Sunday, March 14th at 4PM Eastern. Free registration available at readtheworkshop.com/events.

Meet our next panelist! @thedoorajar moved from the Philippines to the United States at age 17. Her work has appeared in @thearkint, MARY: A Journal of New Writing, @cream_city_review, and @aaww_nyc’s The Margins, among others. She received a BA from @ucberkeleyofficial and an MFA from @iubloomington, where she served as Poetry Editor of @indianareview. Davíd has received support from @penamerica, @vonavoices, and @breadloafwriter Translators' Conference. She lives in Washington, DC. Learn from Soleil soon at our free I Applied To MFAs: What’s Next? webinar on Sunday, March 14th at 4PM Eastern. Sign up ASAP at readtheworkshop.com/events.

Introducing our next panelist! A. J. Gnuse (@uncwcrw) is the author of GIRL IN THE WALLS, forthcoming May 2021 with @eccobooks. A native of New Orleans, he lives in Texas. We’re excited to hear what A.J. has to say at our free I Applied To MFAs: What Next? webinar on Sunday, March 14th at 4PM EDT. Register ASAP at readtheworkshop.com/events.

Meet our next I Applied To MFAs: What’s Next? panelist! @sambria (@englishcornell) is a writer from the Lowcountry of SC. Her work has been published in @joylandmag and @themissourireview. Sign up ASAP at readtheworkshop.com/events to catch Shakarean's insights on Sunday, March 14th at 4PM Eastern.

Meet our first panelist! @madsense is a first-gen writer, scholar, and educator. She earned an MFA in Literary Arts from @brownu and a PhD in English/Creative Writing from the @uofdenver. Her first book, The Boneyard, The Birth Manual, A Burial: Investigations into the Heartland (@trembling_pillow_press), was listed on @entropymagazine’s Best Poetry Books of 2018. Her hybrid chapbook, “Home Movie, Nowhere,” was published with @el_diagram/New Michigan Press this year.

The Workshop will be hosting a *free* I Applied To MFAs: What's Next? panel for MFA applicants (as well as any of you out there who sat out this cycle, but are thinking of applying down the line) on Sunday, March 14th from 4-5:30PM Eastern.