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ANNOUNCEMENTS
REBECCA'S UPCOMING EVENTS:
• March 23, Wofford College, Spartanburg,
S.C.
Q&A
session- 3:30 PM, AAAS Room in Burwell Building
Reading- 7:30 PM, Olin Theater, 429 N. Church Street
Both events free and open to the public
• April 8-9, Denver, Colorado
Rebecca will be participating
in two panels at the Associated Writing Programs Conference
in Denver:
- "Re-Writing Rilke: Letters to a Young Writer," Thursday,
April 8, 1:15-2:45, Room 107, Colorado Convention Center,
- "Summer Writing Conferences: What they
Offer, How to Choose the Best One for You," Friday, April
9, 10:30-11:45, Room 111, Colorado Convention Center
• April 11, Little Rock, Arkansas
Rebecca will present the closing dinner speech at the annual
conference of the National League of American Pen Women,
Peabody Hotel
APPLY NOW FOR SUMMER WORKSHOP:
The Gettysburg Review Conference for Writers
June 9-14,
2010, Gettysburg, PA
For more information: gettysburgreview.com
Kenyon
Review Writers Workshop
June 19-26, 2010, Gambier, OH
For more information: kenyonreview.org
• Apply to study with Rebecca in
an MFA program (deadlines
approaching)
A sample of new offerings:
• Two writing exercises to get you started...
• Thoughts on fear, rejection,
and persistence in the writer's life...
RECENTLY
PUBLISHED
McClanahan's work included in 4 new anthologies:
• Now
Write! Nonfiction: Memoir, Journalism, and Creative Nonfiction
Exercises from Today’s Best Writers and Teachers (Tarcher/Penguin,
2009, ed. by Sherry Ellis)
• The Working Poet: Seventy-Five Exercises
in Poetry Writing
(Autumn House Press, 2009, ed. by Scott Minar)
 • Writers and Their Notebooks
University of South Carolina Press, 2010, ed. by Diana M. Raab
 • Rebecca's poem "To the Absent Wife
of the Beautiful Poet at the Writers' Conference" appears
in Readings
for Writers, a 70th anniversary anthology of selections
that appeared in The Kenyon Review including work by Dylan
Thomas, Sylvia Plath, and Flannery O'Connor.
• Rebecca's essay, "The Essay Mouse" appears
in the Fall 2009 issue of River
Teeth, along with an interview with Rebecca on the subject
of writing brief creative nonfiction
 • Rebecca's
essay, “The Tribal Knot: Ties That Bind and Break Us” (adapted
from a book-length narrative in process) appears in the 70th
anniversary edition of The
Kenyon Review
Read an online
review.
 • Rebecca's
essay "Interstellar," cited as notable in Best
American Essays, appears alongside essays by David
Sedaris, Amy Tan, John McPhee, and others in the newly released Touchstone
Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction (Simon & Schuster)
• Four of Rebecca's poems
appear in a new anthology of contemporary poetry by American
women, When
She Named Fire. Other poets include Rita Dove,
Mary Oliver and Sharon Olds.
 • “Liferower” appears
as one of three model essays (alongside works by Brian Doyle
and Scott Russell Sanders) in Creative
Writing: Four Genres in Brief, a new text that spans poetry,
creative nonfiction, short plays, and stories. Bedford/St.
Martin, To
order
See a sampling
of other anthologies where Rebecca's work appears.
OTHER NEWS
 • Garrison
Keillor selects two more poems from Deep
Light for
the The Writer's Almanac
Teaching
A Nephew to Type (mp3)
Watching
My Parents Sleeping Beside An Open Window Near the Sea (mp3)
Hear Keillor read two more poems from Deep
Light.
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