MFA in a Box: A Why to Write Book

By exploring the relationship between the writer and love, grief, place, family, race and violence, John Rember helps you see how to go deep in your writing. He also tells you what you'll find there and how to get back. Along the way, you'll learn how to see the world as a writer sees it. "If you have real talent," says Rember, "and choose to go it alone without learning from all of the thousands of writers who have gone before you, for a long time you're going to write like Grandma Moses paints." MFA in a Box will help you take language from translucency to transparency, and make your readers feel like you've written for them alone.

About the Author :
John Rember is the author of six books and numerous magazine and newspaper articles. He was a professor of writing for many years at The College of Idaho in Caldwell and in the Pacific University MFA program in Forest Grove, Oregon. John lives in the Sawtooth Valley of central Idaho.

Review :
"The essential truths of excellent writing." The Judges of the Hoffer Awards "Witty, audacious, and wise." Robin Metz, winner of the Rainer Maria Rilke International Poetry Award, Director of the Knox College Creative Writing Program "Beyond Burroway. This is the book for the serious student of writing." Jo-Ann Mapson, co-creator of the University of Alaska Low-Residency MFA Program "For writers and teachers searching for rejuvenation in their work and affirmation of it, this book is a sacred read." Renee D'Aoust, Body of a Dancer "Rember engages his readers in some of the issues every writer faces--writing about place, about family, about grief--not as problems to be overcome but as issues to be understood." Jeff Baker, Book Editor, The Oregonian "Not your father's writer's manual. Rember's humor is dry, mordant, and merciless." Kent McDaniel, Windy City Reviews "Could change the whole way you think about the process of writing." Sharon Harrigan, Walking on the Highway "The best book I've read about writing and living the creative life." Gretchen Little, "A Book Review and More," Squidoo "An inspiration. It makes me want to write, helps me find the courage to do so, and allows me see the purpose in the hard work of it." Rebecca Elgin, wolvesandwriting.com "Belongs on every writer's bookshelf." Randy Richardson, President, Chicago Writers Association "Maybe not a book for the faint-hearted writer--unless you want to stop being faint-hearted." Richard P. Flanagan, Colby College "If you don't close his book somehow transformed, you may well be un-transformable." Robert Peake, The Silence Teacher