Bringing you our new September/October issue! Our special section is on navigating the MFA and includes letters from writer-mentors Danielle Evans and Molly McCully Brown and workshop advice from @RosalieKnecht. Browse the full TOC: at.pw.org/SeptOct2023

If I ever fully delete my account instead of just being minimally present on here it may be because of chaotic Twitter politics or it may be because I cannot come on this website without being attacked like this.

I am once again trying to escape Twitter for good (I'm DanieDVE over on Threads), but on my way out, I'm delighted to share this love letter (?) that you'll have to decipher my handwriting to read. It's hanging out in very good company at Esquire's Napkin Project!

Thanks, technology, but actually every single company or venue I've ever bought anything from ever emailing me this week to ask me if I'd like to opt out of Mother's Day reminders makes me much sadder than the actual reminders would!

Second exciting news-- today my first book, which is old enough to be a whole surly teenager in the US, is officially out in the UK for the first time!

Sneaking briefly back onto Twitter to share two exciting bits of new-- first, the first issue of The Hopkins Review I worked on as fiction editor is out now! Many thanks to the editors for this year's gorgeous volume, and to the writers who said yes when I asked for their stories!

Applications for admission to the MFA program are currently open and will close December 15th. Our fully-funded 2-year program admits 8 students a year, 4 in fiction and 4 in poetry. writingseminars.jhu.edu/graduate/

Danielle Evans ‘s electric debut collection Before You Suffocate…publishes for the first time in the UK in March from Picador Books 🔥 - stories of mixed-race and African American teens struggling to find a place in their community

When you are skeptical of love because it has recently chomped you in the ear.

ANNOUNCEMENT:

This year’s Story Prize Judges are….
thestoryprize.blogspot.com/2022/10/announ…

Excited to share my essay on writing ends of short stories in latest Writer's Digest . A difficult subject (!) — many thanks to the authors I interviewed & those who wrote valuable examples Rebecca Makkai Danielle Evans ZZ Packer @haszombiesinit Percival Everett and Kirstin Valdez Quade

It’s me! Hi! I’m the problem it’s me! At teatime, everybody agrees.

I am trying to catch up on the discourse but I have a personal rule about never getting into an argument with a cat even if the cat is clearly wrong.

Are we having more fun yet?

Got into the lit business for the perks

Tonight!