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Writer, editor, and teacher Aaron Burch discusses how he’s learned to embrace his craft as a hobby and evolve from the little failures that lead to success Writing , Failure , First attempts , Success , Focus Part of: From a conversation with Shelby Hinte Highlights on Download as a PDF You’re a teacher and you’ve opened and run a couple of successful literary magazines, but you’re also regularly publishing your own work. Can we hear a little bit about how you balance doing all those things? It’s a handful of things. One is I’ve been doing it for so long that it’s just so embedded in my life. I don’t know how to not. I don’t know how to come home and just watch TV. I feel like I come home, and I work on something literary, and then that makes me seem really productive. I’ll knock out a bunch of submissions and then people will sort of acknowledge the journal’s going strong. And then some part of my brain is just like, “yeah, but I haven’t written anything in two weeks.” I don’t have a ton of other hobbies, so my hobby is doing it for the love of the thing. It’s not really a career because I’m not getting paid for reading or running journals or writing, but it all kind of seems career. It’s different enough from my day job that it seems like this separate hobby. I started Hobart when I was 23. At that point I was figuring out what it meant to be a human, so working on Hobart , working on a journal, was just there from the get-go of what it meant to be a person. I’m really curious about the career versus hobby element. Do you feel like that impacts the pressure you feel to produce? I’m in this kind of weird position where I’m not a professor, I’m a lecturer, so I’m not tenure track. And for a long time, to some degree, I felt like that was hanging over my head. It’s like at this age, with […]
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