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FUNNY WOMEN: Tailoring a Pitch Across Outlets

  • Taylor Kay Phillips and Kate Villa
  • May 5, 2021
Hit me if you’re down for this excluze to all your compadbros.
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The Mentor Series: Emily J. Smith and Chloe Caldwell

  • Emily J. Smith
  • July 20, 2020
Emily J. Smith interviews her mentor, Chloe Caldwell.
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Hurry Up and Wait: Literary Community Is a Platform

  • Kim Perel
  • December 3, 2019
What exactly is a platform? How do you create one?
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The Mentor Series: Lisa Locascio and Aimee Bender

  • Lisa Locascio
  • November 18, 2019
Lisa Locascio interviews her mentor, Aimee Bender.
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The Mentor Series: Vanessa Hua and Susan Straight

  • Vanessa Hua
  • August 19, 2019
Vanessa Hua interviews her mentor, Susan Straight.
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The Thread: Art Monsters

  • Marissa Korbel
  • July 16, 2019
I don’t want to be a martyr or a monster. I want to be human.
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Slush Piles in White

  • Marcos Santiago Gonsalez
  • December 5, 2017
The sensibilities of whiteness do not want us to work, do not want us to think, do not want us to imagine outside of its bounds.
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FUNNY WOMEN #157: Habits of Less Successful Writers

  • Julie Vick
  • November 30, 2017
So much can be learned from the writing habits of successful writers, but what can we learn from the ones who aren’t doing quite as well?
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CA$H 4 GOLD

  • Amy Berhnard
  • November 2, 2017
I will not end up like these woman, I promise myself, left behind and living in some suburb. I will not be anyone’s baby. I will be a real artist instead, a writer.
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The Long and Winding Road to a Bestseller

  • The Rumpus
  • August 7, 2017
In Warren Adler‘s first-ever video portraying his personal story of becoming an enduring novelist, the acclaimed author of The War of the Roses speaks frankly about the trials and tribulations he faced…
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Ambiguity as a Daily Experience: Talking with Jess Arndt

  • Melissa Wiley
  • June 14, 2017
Jess Arndt discusses her debut story collection Large Animals, accepting love from other people, human bodies, and fear of the written word.
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Funny Women #152: Features of the Groundbreaking American Writers Museum

  • Elissa Bassist
  • April 11, 2017
We’ll be open as long as the National Endowment for the Arts is.
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