At some point, I think most aspiring writers face the MFA conundrum.
On one side of the scale, a Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing provides the opportunity to hone your craft, receive valuable feedback on your writing [...]

Hello Teachers,

Thanks for coming to the Teach section of YARN. As we mentioned in our first letter to you in this section, the YARN editors are also teachers and we understand just how useful a completely prepared lesson plan can be [...]

This week, we’ll be sending our first fancy-schmancy email to subscribers. It took a lot of trial and error to get it right, since none of us here at YARN are all that computer savvy, but we’re happy with the way it turned out. In fact, this new email is one of the many things that have kept us busy at YARN [...]

Let me being by saying that Catherine Gilbert Murdock is a rock star for writing a brand spanking new piece for us to publish this fall, when she had a book coming out and everything!  A very busy time for most writers. I think my friends at regular adult literary journals would be amazed to [...]

YARN is thrilled to offer our readers an end of summer treat: an interview with Dorothy Hearst, author of The Wolf Chronicles Trilogy. It’s been said, by the legendary author Jean Auel, no less!) that Hearst is doing for wolves what “Watership Down” did for bunnies. That’s some pretty heavy praise indeed [...]