365. Creative Writing MFAs (with Steph Grossman, Chandler Klang Smith, John Kessel)

Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A Science Fiction Podcast

David Barr Kirtley

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🗓️ 14 June 2019

⏱️ 92 minutes

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0:00.0	Wired.com presents The Geek's Guide to the Galaxy. And here is your host, David Barr
0:17.0	Kirtley.
0:20.0	Hello and welcome to episode 365 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.
0:24.8	Today on the show we'll be discussing whether fantasy and science fiction writers should get an
0:28.0	MFA and creative writing and also giving our advice to writers who do want to get an MFA. And you should also check out our panel on
0:34.3	writing workshops back in episode 134 and to our panel on Professors versus Fantasy back in episode
0:39.1	257 and I'm joined by three guests. So first up we've got Steph Grossman,
0:44.0	who you may remember from our panel on live action role playing
0:46.0	back in episode 259.
0:48.0	She's worked for several publishing houses,
0:50.0	including Penguin Random House and Simon and Schuster,
0:53.0	and her writing has appeared in Hope Art and Paste
0:55.0	and his forthcoming in Joyland.
0:56.8	She was recently accepted into the Creative Writing MFA
0:59.2	program at Texas State University.
1:01.3	So Steph, welcome to the show. Good to be back. The next
1:04.8	up we've got Chandra Klang Smith, who you may remember from our panel on Maniac
1:08.2	back in episode 335 and from our future interview in episode 301,
1:12.5	her novel The Sky Is Yours,
1:14.1	about a surreal science fiction city
1:15.7	that for decades has been under attack by Dragons
1:18.2	was published in 2018 by Hogarth.
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