The One-Hour MFA

$12.00

90 pages, pocket sized, beautiful
ISBN 13: 978-0-9906020-5-7
Released in July 2015

Want to save $50K on graduate school? In The One-Hour MFA, novelist Michael Kimball (Big Ray, Dear Everybody, etc.) gives indispensable advice as he breaks down the writing process into fifteen brief, meaningful lessons. Making detailed reference to some of the world’s best fiction writers, Kimball gives straightforward guidance on how to open a story and how to end one, how to revise and how to pay attention to things like syntax and acoustics, as well as various ways to think about character, voice, story, plot, and description.

Note: we are also serializing this book for free reading at realpants.com starting on July 7. Get these sharp and insightful essays for free in weekly installments, or order from Publishing Genius now and get everything at once. It’s great for writers and for teachers!

Check out the index to see the exhaustive list of writers Kimball refers to.

Here’s an article at FastCo about the book.

Here’s a review at JMWW.

Additional information

Weight.25 oz
Dimensions6 × 4 × .5 in