Parisian Phoenix Publishing

So, if you do find yourself perpetually biting off more than you can chew, McKenna Graf might have some advice for you. Early this week, McKenna had an article published in Hippocampus Magazine. She gives fantastic tips on how she balances her creative endeavors with her academic life as a student at Lafayette College.

Everyone’s process is going to be different and it should! But the biggest thing to remember is that all of this stuff — the classes, the drama, the life … that is the most important thing for your writing. Being a writer is not just a side thing. It is who you are — so own it. You don’t need to be attached to some big fancy publishing house to do what you love and be proud of it. The sooner you embrace the absolute bravery it takes to write something and decide you are going to get it published, the better. And maybe you want the big fancy publishing house, that’s fine too! But we are all working hard for what we love.

Read the full article here.

Order McKenna’s poetry at Barnes & Noble here.

You can also see McKenna at her reading November 13 at Book & Puppet Company in downtown Easton, Pa. She plans to attend Chili Fest in Southside Bethlehem, Pa., with a variety of other Parisian Phoenix authors (such as myself) on October 18. And we’ll all be floating around the Easton Book Festival.