MFA in a Box: A Why to Write Book - Softcover

Rember, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 098257942X ISBN 13: 9780982579428

Publisher: Dream of Things, 2011

Synopsis

As Rember notes in his introduction, “MFA in a Box is not a How to Write Book. It’s a Why to Write Book.” By exploring the relationships between the writer and love, grief, place, family, race and violence, Rember helps writers dive deep into their own writing. He tells them how they can breathe down there and how they can get back.“A big part of writing involves grappling with the terrors and discouragements that come when you have writing skills but can’t project yourself or your work into the future,” says Rember. “My hope is that MFA in a Box will help writers balance the despair of writing with the joy of writing. It’s a book designed to help you to find the courage to put truth into words and to understand that writing is a life-and-death endeavor—but that nothing about a life-and-death endeavor keeps it from being laugh-out-loud funny.”

About this title

About the Author

John Rember is the author of four books and numerous magazine and newspaper articles. He has been a professor of writing for many years, most recently as a core faculty member of the Pacific University MFA program. He is also Writer at Large at The College of Idaho. John lives in the Sawtooth Valley of central Idaho.

Edition details

• Publisher: Dream of Things
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 098257942X
• ISBN 13: 9780982579428
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272