a week in my life as an MFA student 🖋️WRITING VLOG

Answering questions about my MFA:    • A JUICY MFA Q&A: funding, thesis, app...  

TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - my courses for the semester
1:31 - readings & school work
3:22 - filming a video + editing a short story
5:21 - edits for my teaching practicum
7:37 - a little writing session
8:18 - funding application
9:42 - meeting with my critique partner for novel edits
10:33 - teaching practicum
13:34 - teaching skills class
18:00 - final class for the week
19:20 - editing my book alongside school
20:51 - weekly reflection assignment
21:35 - a reading update

→All my published work: https://linktr.ee/shaelinbishop
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MY SHORT STORIES:
☾You Know Where Your Body is Buried - MudRoom: https://www.mudroommag.com/shaelin-bi...
☾I Am a Wolf in Wolf's Clothing - filling Station: https://fillingstation.myshopify.com/...
☾Tabula Rasa - The Temz Review: https://www.thetemzreview.com/fiction...
☾How to Slaughter - The Common: https://www.thecommononline.org/how-t...
☾After Hours - Vagabond City Lit: https://vagabondcitylit.com/2022/04/1...
☾Daughter of a King - Vagabond City Lit: https://vagabondcitylit.com/2022/03/2...
☾Cherry and Jane in the Garden of Eden - The Puritan: https://ex-puritan.ca/cherry-and-jane...
☾I Am a Wolf in Wolf's Clothing - filling Station: https://fillingstation.myshopify.com/...
☾Zugzwang - Plenitude: https://plenitudemagazine.ca/zugzwang/
☾Elise Holding a Deer Mouse, 1829 - CAROUSEL: http://carouselmagazine.ca/c45-bishop/
☾I Will Never Tell You This - The Puritan: https://ex-puritan.ca/never-tell-you-...
☾Solarium - Minola Review: http://www.minolareview.com/shaelin-b...
☾Barefoot - The Fiddlehead [print only]: https://thefiddlehead.ca/issue/282
☾Wishbone - PRISM international [print only]: http://prismmagazine.ca/2020/04/19/pr...
☾Wishbone - video reading: https://vimeo.com/420052282
☾Hold Me Under Till I See the Light - The New Quarterly: https://tnq.ca/story/hold-me-under-ti...
☾Beautiful Animal - Room: https://roommagazine.com/issues/twine
☾How You'll Feel After the War - PRISM international: http://prismmagazine.ca/2021/10/20/pr...

FAQS
→How old are you? - 27
→How long have you been writing? - Since I was 8
→Where do you live? - I keep that private for safety reasons, but I grew up in Vancouver.
→Where did you go to university and what did you study? - I keep my university information private, but I majored in writing with a concentration in fiction and am currently an MFA student.
→What are your pronouns? - They/them or she/her
→Where can I read your books? - None of my books are published yet, but you can read my published short fiction in my linktree (linked above!)
→So when will your book be published? - I don’t know! I’m in the revision process right now, but I can’t predict exactly when I’ll have a book published. But I’m working on it!
→Do you plan to traditionally publish or self publish? - Traditionally publish
→Will you read my book/story/chapter/mentor me? - Unfortunately I cannot accommodate these requests because editing/critiquing is a labour intensive task that I can’t afford to do for free and currently don't have time for.I

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