by Lyndsay Hall The way my MFA program worked, we received in the mail a spiral-bound, paperback book of our peers’ work that we were to read before meeting for workshop a few weeks later. The work was hit or miss by nature: The due dates for these particular pieces came in the middle of…
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On Writing: An Introduction to The Lit Flamingo
By Lyndsay Hall There’s an afternoon I attribute often to my becoming a writer, though it happened eighteen years after I started writing. I lived in a Miami Beach high-rise called The Flamingo with a man I wouldn’t recognize as pure trash for another month. The windows glowed teal over the harbor, and inside was…
Best Bones: An Interview with Jane-Rebecca Cannarella, author of Better Bones
by Lyndsay Hall In my first memory of Jane-Rebecca, whom I know as Janie, she’s pocket-sized and about to read her writing before a group of our graduate school peers. She’s got guts, I think: I would never read my work to these people, what for? so they can ask the admissions board what I’m…
Best of Summer Craft Advice for Writers
Why You Should Write About Your Characters at Work by Jason AllenI’m not sure what this says about me as a person—hopefully it says I’m not capitalism’s biggest fan, because true—but I have the hardest time imagining my characters at work. Isn’t work the least interesting thing about a person? In my mind, a character…
