After the MFA

San Francisco-based writer and teacher Michelle Richmond recently wrote some advice about getting into the teaching game after the MFA is in your clammy hands.

Key bit of advice — for me at least — was about the best times to send out resumes and inquire about teaching positions:

“Also, send a resume to your local community college, and phone the director of the English department in middle and late summer to ask if any positions have opened; this is when they’re trying to find teachers for classes that have just been added to the fall schedule, or when they’re replacing teachers who have pulled out on a class at the last minute. Almost everyone has to take freshman comp, and some poor soul has to teach it.”

I guess that would be right about… now.

Timing is always a great incentive for me to get off my butt and get something done. Thanks for the wisdom, Michelle. Read the whole post here:

Teaching After the MFA – How to Get Your Foot in the Door of Academia

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