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Desperate Measure to Get You to the Writing Desk


What exactly IS creative nonfiction?
Five writers, including McClanahan, weigh in on the question.

6 Misconceptions About Writing:
1. Writing gets done without writing.
2: Writers have time to write.
3: Writers know in advance exactly where they’re going, and they get there.
4: Writers have something important to say.
5: Writers publish their work and get famous or rich or both.
6: Writers are smarter, more sensitive, and more creative than other people.
READ MORE ABOUT THESE MISCONCEPTIONS



Rebecca McClanahan, the author of nine books, is an award-winning poet, essayist, fiction writer and educator who conducts readings and workshops throughout the country.
Join Rebecca and five other writers for a special Mother's Day reading at Cornelia Street Cafe, May 11 at 6:00 PM.
Cover charge of $7 includes one house drink.
( 29 Cornelia Street in New York)
For more information, www.corneliastreetcafe.com

OPPORTUNITIES TO STUDY WITH MCCLANAHAN:


Gettysburg Review Writing Workshop- June 4-8, 2008
Contact Kim Kupperman- kkupperm@gettysburg.edu

Kenyon Review Writers Workshop- June 14-21, 2008
Contact Anna Duke Reach- reacha@kenyon.edu

Deep Light coverMCCLANHAN'S NEWEST BOOK:
READ A REVIEW

HEAR GARRISON KEILLOR READ TWO POEMS FROM THE BOOK

SAMPLE OTHER POEMS


THE KENYON REVIEW ONLINE:
A CONVERSATION WITH REBECCA MCCLANAHAN
On genre crossing, violent revisions, and writing from joy- the last taboo.

OTHER NEWS:
McClanahan's essay "Interstellar" is cited as notable in Best American Essays 2007 and
appears alongside essays by David Sedaris, Amy Tan, John McPhee, and others in the newly released Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction (Simon & Schuster, 2007)

A new essay, "The Jury is Out, Reading" appears in the fall issue of Marginalia
.

Four of her poems appear in The Movable Nest: A Mother/Daughter Companion (Helicon Nine Editions, 2007) and The Southern Poetry Anthology (Texas Review Press, 2007)


Another essay "Liferower" will appear in Creative Writing in Four Genres (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2008).

McClanahan’s work "Back" is listed among notable essays in The Best American Essays 2006 and cited for special mention in 2007 Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses.



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