Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers
MFA Day Job: Ideas for Your Possible Future
A number of my conversations with writers this year have revolved around the difficulties of securing a job in the academic world. What happens if you’re a writer and can’t get an academic job? Or what if you have other…
Venues for Readings: The Noisy, The Cavernous, The Strange
Most months of the year, I’m lucky enough to attend at least one prose or poetry reading each week. At Kenyon College, where I am currently employed, most of our readings are held at Finn House, the gingerbread-esque cottage that…
Graywolf Press’s New Feature, “Ask A Midlist Author”
These days, there is an awful lot of attention given to writers that give advice. Writers at every stage of their careers seem to be more than willing to put in their two cents on craft-related topics: how to approach…
Writers’ Inscriptions: The Wise, The Vague, The Ironic
After the AWP conference this year, a guard at the Boston airport security checkpoint took one look at my rolling suitcase, and then asked me to step aside. “Ma’am,” she said to me, annoyed, “I need you to make sure…
Knox Writers’ House: A Conversation with Emily Oliver
If you haven’t visited the Knox Writers’ House—a digital archive of poets and writers reading their poems and prose, as well as the writings of others, recording in the towns where they reside—you’re in for quite a few hours of…
