Self-promotion for people who hate self-promotion

About this episode

Maya C. Popa and Sarah Fay discuss self-promotion strategies for those who dislike self-promotion.

Maya C. Popa and I talk about self-promotion for the self-promotion averse. Find out why self-promotion is all about bravely falling backward into a ball pit and why we can blame our dislike of it on the Modernists, Roland Barthes, and the Iowa Writers Workshop . This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.substackwritersatwork.com/subscribe

People in this episode

Host: Sarah Fay

Guest: Maya C. Popa

Topics covered

• self-promotion
• writing
• creativity
• modernism
• literature

Keywords

• self-promotion
• writing advice
• literary criticism
• Modernists
• Roland Barthes

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Iowa Writers Workshop

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