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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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• Garrison Keillor reads two poems from DEEP LIGHT on THE WRITER'S ALMANAC
August 26- Teaching A Nephew to Type
August 31- Watching My Parents Sleeping Beside An Open Window Near the Sea
Tune in to your local NPR station or listen to the podcasts
writersalmanac.publicradio.org
• McClanahan 10-week classes in poetry and nonfiction beginning September 25th. at HUDSON VALLEY WRITERS CENTER, Sleepy Hollow, New York writerscenter.org
 MCCLANAHAN'S NEWEST BOOK:
• READ A REVIEW
• 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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