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Desperate
Measure to Get You to the Writing Desk
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
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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.
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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
 MCCLANHAN'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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