Another reason it's nice to befriend writers

They will come and speak to your fiction workshops! Last Friday, the fabulous Maureen McHugh visited my summer fiction class and spent about 75 minutes talking with my students. In preparation for her visit, they'd read a story from her currently in-development collection of post-apocalyptic short fiction, and they'd also read the first 25 pages of The Road as a counterpoint.

Maureen on the right, talking to one side of the table

We talked about Maureen's ARG company No Mimes. She walked the...