10 Things I Wish I'd Known During my Creative Writing Degree

I hope this advice is helpful to undergraduate creative writing students!

Links/resources mentioned:

Submission Grinder (where to find markets for your finished pieces): https://thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com/

Shunn manuscript format (when in doubt about submission guidelines, use Shunn!): https://www.shunn.net/format/

The short story I mentioned--"The Listener"--is now out in The Future Fire: http://futurefire.net/2021.56/fiction...

History of Creative Writing workhops:
Chronicle: How Iowa flattened literature: https://www.chronicle.com/article/how...

Vice: The CIA Helped build the content farm that churns out American literature: https://www.vice.com/en/article/4x3vg...

Salon: The Paris Review, the Cold War, and the CIA: https://www.salon.com/2012/05/27/excl...

You can find links to all my published stories & book on my website: www.simkern.com

You can get my DEPART, DEPART! a Jewish, climate-fiction ghost story anywhere books are sold online.
Publisher: https://www.stelliform.press/index.ph...
Indiebound: https://www.indiebound.org/book/97817...
Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/books/depart-dep...
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Depart-Sim-Ker...
Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/depa...

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