fiction – Kendall Dunkelberg

MFA Advice for Writers 2026, Pt 2 What are You Reading?

In this installment, I consider that intimidating and impossible list of what writers you’re reading that we all ask you to include.

Returning to writing advice for applicants to MFA programs in Creative Writing, I start with the benefits and challenges of attending #AWP26

In which I wonder about the dark forces that may be behind the rash of scams directed at writers and offer some thoughts on how to respond.

Now that the second edition of A Writer’s Craft has been sent to my editor at Bloomsbury, I reflect on the semester-long process of revising.

An update on Oleada and first look at three new submission platforms for magazines and writers

This week I’ll be one of the features writers at the 37th Annual Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium.

Some book club invitations may turn out to be too good to be true.

Seeing where A Writer’s Craft has been sold leads to insights and confirms my plans as I work toward a second edition.

Tree Fall with Birdsong is officially published today, May 21, 2025. Let’s celebrate!

I am reposting a story on Bluesky, Mastodon, and Threads that I originally wrote on Twitter in 2019. Here’s how I’m doing that.