Converse University MFA
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Converse University MFA
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Converse University Low-Residency MFA. Fiction. YA Fiction. Poetry. Nonfiction. App deadlines: 10/1 & 2/15.

Interview w/ Tommy Hays, whose new novel is out from @BlairPublisher <I worked on The Marriage Bed off and on for over a decade, writing several drafts between working on two YA novels.> south85journal.com/2026/03/interv…

Read a hilarious story about the desert, a bad boyfriend(?), and a missing mother: “Krista Robinson, Age 21 3/4, Wants These Things to Be True” @lesliepwriter 1/5 Why’s the special thing he brought just for me so ugly? Say, I love it.
















New interview by w/ memoirist Kristine Langley Mahler: <Honestly, I like seeing boundaries and then I like walking up to the fence and leaning my elbows on it> south85journal.com/2026/03/on-mee…

From 183 entries, the editors of The Florida Review have chosen 10 titles as semifinalists for the Jeanne Leiby Memorial Chapbook Award. All entrants receive a year’s subscription to The Florida Review. Congrats to our semifinalists! #flreview

Deadline = 3/13 (aka FRIDAY!) Send us your poems, stories, flash, and essays! Our theme is <surprise us> but you can surprise us by ignoring the theme! More info: south85journal.com/submissions/

Our Spring issue is here—featuring interviews with Sarah Schulman and Darryl Pinckney, prose by Tao Lin and Yu Hua, poetry by Inger Christensen and Joyelle McSweeney, art by Cauleen Smith, a cover by Cecily Brown, and more. buff.ly/fGxnHCT











