Rerelease: Alejandro Puyana Michener Center for Writers, University of Texas at Austin
b'The pod team is on summer vacation! While we rest, recharge, and record some fabulous Season 4 episodes, we hope you enjoy this rerelease from our first season.\\xa0\\nWith political and social unrest rocking his home country of Venezuela, Alejandro Puyana turned to writing as a way to process. He applied to MFA programs four times before landing an acceptance at the Michener Center for Writers. Now, you can read his work in The Best American Short Stories anthology for 2020. Alejandro and Jared talk rejection, revision, and reimagining the world through fiction.\\nAlejandro Puyana is a second-year fellow at the Michener Center for Writers whose primary focus is fiction and secondary genre is screenwriting. His non-fiction pieces have been published in The Toast, Tin House Online, NPR, The Huffington Post; his fiction in Huizache, The Examined Life, and Idaho Review. His short story, "Hands of Dirty Children" was awarded the Halifax Ranch Prize by American Short Fiction, chosen as the winning story by ZZ Packer. That same story was then chosen by Curtis Sittenfeld to be included in the 2020 Best American Short Stories. Find him on Twitter @Puyana.\\nMFA Writers is hosted by Jared McCormack and produced by Jared McCormack and Hanamori Skoblow. New episodes are released every two weeks. You can find more MFA Writers at MFAwriters.com.\\nBE PART OF THE SHOW\\n\\u2014 Donate to the show at Buy Me a Coffee.\\n\\u2014 Leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts.\\n\\u2014 Submit an episode request. If there\\u2019s a program you\\u2019d like to learn more about, contact us and we\\u2019ll do our very best to find a guest who can speak to their experience.\\n\\u2014 Apply to be a guest on the show by filling out our application.\\nSTAY CONNECTED\\nTwitter: @MFAwriterspod\\nInstagram: @MFAwriterspodcast\\nFacebook: MFA Writers\\nEmail: mfawriterspodcast@gmail.com'