Hugh Ryan, Mark Wallace and T. K. Rex discuss MFAs, finding out what kind of writer you are, queer history, pitching niche topics, tarantulas, finding the right peers and instructors for your writing, and the punkest thing ever.

Stuff we talked about in the episode:

• The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison
• Bennington workshop
• C. L. Polk's Patreon
• New York Public Library research fellowship
• Pop-Up Museum of Queer History 
• Hide/Seek: Difference in Desire in American Portraiture
• Yaddo residency
• Watermill residency
• New York Foundation for the Arts
• Hugh’s Patreon