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MFA vs. IRS

MFA vs. IRS

How Should Creative Writing Programs Talk about the Business of Publishing?

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Lincoln Michel
Jul 29, 2022
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A few years ago, I went freelance fulltime—technically a combination of adjucting and freelancing—and realized I didn’t know much about finances. Okay I knew the basics of balancing a checkbook and such, but not much beyond that. Like many millennials, I’d spent my life working either “gigs” or benefit-free jobs in which phrases like “health saving acco…

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