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Whether you get an MFA or not, goddamn, find a workshop, find a way to talk to some working writers and editors, I dunno, all of that would've made things a lot easier and faster for me in retrospect. Get your onboarding somehow but do GET IT, writing is solitary but publishing is collaborative.
November 14, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Eagerly awaiting!!
November 11, 2025 at 3:34 PM
So come level up your editing toolkit!

LMC members can try 1 month of The Forever Workshop freeee

Link in our Discord🔥
www.theforeverworkshop.com/p/how-to-com...
How to Complete a Professional Self-Edit
Revise like an editor & up your submissions game with our November workshop
www.theforeverworkshop.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:52 PM
He'll chat with the writers and break down what they did in revision and why.

🔥w/ a BSF 2023 winner by @robroensch.bsky.social
🔥a Wigleaf Top 50 longlister by Rina Olsen
🔥a stunner by Brittany Ackerman
🔥and a Lindsey Peters Berg piece adopted by Australian standardized tests (🙃true story)
October 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
And in November, Editor @stevexisxok.bsky.social will be teaching a course at The Forever Workshop on different story types and revising for common challenges they present.

w/ pre- and post-revision versions of 4 pieces from @okaydonkeymag.com

www.theforeverworkshop.com/p/how-to-com...
How to Complete a Professional Self-Edit
Revise like an editor & up your submissions game with our November workshop
www.theforeverworkshop.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
AND we'll have beautiful generative prompts posted by @kathyfish.bsky.social on the 1st and 15th!

The writing life is hard and lonely, yes, but around here it doesn't have to be🔥
October 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM
And ICYMI: we chatted with our favorite fabulist @benloory.bsky.social about how he writes stories that are both fun and profound and… the answers might surprise you.

Here’s a teaser of his foolproof 6-step method.

Pop into our Discord to catch what you missed and grow with us in November👋See you!
October 28, 2025 at 4:25 PM
+ @haydensferryreview.bsky.social editor Chiara Kaufman will lead our monthlong reading of @olgaravn.bsky.social's futuristic workplace allegory, The Employees!

On Nov 6 6PM ET, join our live communal close-reading of The Employees’ 1st pages & share your thoughts!

Discussion starters on Thursdays
October 28, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Want to break hearts while landing zingers like “adorkable but hotkward?”

On Nov 16 at 8PM ET, chat and get craft-y with award-winning author @1demerith.bsky.social & @epochliterary.com editor @jrobertlennon.com about Meredith’s fizzingly witty, disarmingly tender short story “The Best Man.”
October 28, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Got questions about residencies? Wanna improve your chances when applying?

On Nov 23 5PM ET, we’ll chat with Jeff McMahon, Director of Operations at Willapa Bay AIR, and @jrigamonti.bsky.social, former Program Coordinator at the @cmwritershouse.bsky.social for insider tips.

Come and learn with us🔥
October 28, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Want more chills? Here's another haunted fave by @abigailoswald.bsky.social

You'll love what it does with doppelgangers & disappearing

(Even if you don't believe, like I do, that the screen is a mirror from beyond which The Nether beckons)
#commonsense

ashortstorylong.substack.com/p/you-are-st...
You Are Still Allowed Your Dreams by Abigail Oswald
"I was fourteen when I found my doppelganger on the internet... Here was a picture I did not remember taking, in a posture I had never assumed, wearing clothes I had never owned..."
ashortstorylong.substack.com
October 23, 2025 at 9:10 PM