Advice for Broke Writers

While the notion of an author subsisting in a tuberculine, Dickensian squalor may appeal to some, the truth is that most writers have cell phone payments and Netflix bills like everyone else. For those writers, Scratch Mag may prove useful.

The new journal, launched by Jane Friedman and Manjula Martin, aims to help “writers who are struggling with the economic realities of (their) industry.” Check out a free preview issue that includes tips about how to get paid to write and a fantastic interview with Jonathan Franzen.

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Kaveh Akbar's poems appear in the New Yorker, Poetry, Paris Review, Best American Poetry, New York Times, and elsewhere. He is the author of Calling a Wolf a Wolf (Alice James 2017) and a chapbook, Portrait of the Alcoholic, published by Sibling Rivalry. The recipient of a Levis Reading Prize and a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship, Kaveh is the founding editor of Divedapper, a home for interviews with major voices in contemporary poetry. Born in Tehran, Iran, he teaches at Purdue University and in the low-residency MFA programs at Randolph College and Warren Wilson.

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