Came across this on Duotrope this morning and I felt compelled to check it out. There has been a bit of debate (that I've noticed) in recent months in regards to whether or not an MFA makes a writer any more likely to be published than a non-MFA writer. Literary Rejections on Display, for example, brought the issue to a head a few months back.
MFA/MFYOU Journal seeks to put the two categories of writers side by side, much as the editors - a married couple in Fairbanks Alaska, wife with an MFA, husband without - are. Each has their own personal blog to boot,and as I'm always looking for new ways to procrastinate (and new emerging author's to spy on), I enjoyed Ashley's very much. She is an editor for Permafrost and in the post I read, she frankly discusses the fine line between acceptance and rejection.
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Melanie Haney is an emerging writer of short fiction.
Her story "The Simplest of Acts" was the winner of Family Circle Magazine's 2006 Fiction Competition.
In 2007 "Only in Bellington" was selected as winner of the Ann Arbor Book Festival's short story competition.
Her story "The Last Thing Before Dirt" has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Family Circle Magazine, Quality Women's Fiction, Eureka Literary Magazine (The Elm), Fifth Wednesday Journal, The Summerset Review, elimae, Relief Journal, Blue Earth Review, JMWW, Word Riot and other venues.
"The Simplest of Acts" can be read here
You can email her here: Melanie@Lopnet.com
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Her story "The Simplest of Acts" was the winner of Family Circle Magazine's 2006 Fiction Competition.
In 2007 "Only in Bellington" was selected as winner of the Ann Arbor Book Festival's short story competition.
Her story "The Last Thing Before Dirt" has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Family Circle Magazine, Quality Women's Fiction, Eureka Literary Magazine (The Elm), Fifth Wednesday Journal, The Summerset Review, elimae, Relief Journal, Blue Earth Review, JMWW, Word Riot and other venues.
"The Simplest of Acts" can be read here
You can email her here: Melanie@Lopnet.com
or follow her on Twitter
For more, click here.
2 comments:
Although you have to wonder if this kind of semi-related exposure (the website study) will skew the results of their study -- not that it's overly scientific to begin with. But it could be possible. Then again you'd assume that it would benefit the both equally, but it still would make it less "realistic" as people like me don't (yet) have a gimmick. -- although I'm about to launch a website ;)
And of course, I suppose the same could be said about virtually every literary magazine, online or not. Most publish a variety of MFA's or non-MFA's. It's the quality of writing (or the mood of an editor on any given day) that gets a story published, not a degree or lack thereof.
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