Ernest Hemingway#
I get to work with Josip Novakovich this June as part of my MFA program residency session at the University of Tampa. He’ll be my fiction workshop leader and mentor for the next six months.
His writing has been described as darkly ironic, wickedly funny and deeply harrowing. My kind of writer.
I finally got around to reading George Saunders last month when I dove into his collection of short fiction, Pastoralia. This led to an immediate George Saunders frenzy that bordered on obsession. In the wake of my mania after Pastoralia, I had quickly devoured The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil, Civilwarland In Bad Decline, and In Persuasion Nation.
I am saving his most recent collection The Tenth of December for later because it makes me happy to know there is a collection of his fiction I haven’t yet read.
In pursuit of better storytelling, and growth as a writer, I have decided to enroll at the University of Tampa’s Low Residency MFA program in Creative Writing.
The Indie Writer’s Night at UNF was fantastic. The readings were solid, the stories well-told, the crowd large and supportive.