WORRIED ABOUT THE WORLD? WRITE ANYWAY.

An interview with Susan DeFreitas

Add Depth and Meaning to Your Work: Intersecting with Social Issues and Avoiding Harmful Stereotypes


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Workshops Against Empire is the alternative MFA for writers who want to change the world. Get one week of access to the Workshops Against Empire five-course bundle including Anatomy of the Novel, Being Scene, Voice and Vision, Story Medicine, and Final Draft.

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Susan DeFreitas

An American with roots in the Caribbean and the upper Midwest, Susan DeFreitas is the author of the novel Hot Season, which won a Gold IPPY Award, the editor of Dispatches from Anarres: Tales in Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin, and the creator of Workshops Against Empire—the alternative MFA program for writers who want to change the world. Her work has been featured, or is upcoming, in the Writer’s Chronicle, LitHub, Story, StoryQuarterly, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, Daily Science Fiction, and elsewhere. An independent editor and book coach, she lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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