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We received a note from Randolyn Zinn (Sirenland 2007) today:
I'm excited to tell you and the Sirenlanders that my first essay is published today at 3 Quarks Daily, a fascinating compendium of writing culled from various sources (NYTimes, Harpers, Atlantic, Scientific American, etc), but on Mondays they feature original pieces.
I'm a guest writer, hoping to make this a regular gig. Reader comments have been amazing so far this morning. Steven Pinker, David Byrne and a lot of geeks read 3QD but since the site doesn't really have a person writing about music or dance, that's where I could come in, helpful for a new writer searching for a home for the first novel.
In any case, there you are. Hope you're well. Feel free to spread the word.
Michael
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Dear Sirenlanders:
We are very happy to announce that Ron Carlson will joining us at Sirenland 2010 as an instructor. The other two workshops will be led by Dani Shapiro and Jim Shepard, returning from Sirenland 2009. Peter Cameron (who also taught at Sirenland 2009) will be returning to teach at Sirenland 2011.
Ron Carlson is the director of the M.F.A. program in fiction and professor of English at U.C. Irvine. He is the award-winning author of several short story collections and six novels, including the newly published The Signal, which has been receiving rave reviews, including this one in The Washington Post and this one in the LA Times. I first met Ron at Breadloaf in 2004, where he gave one of the best lectures I've ever heard about the process of writing. Later, One Story published a special edition of Ron's story, "Beanball" for our 100th issue. Ron Carlson is an amazing writer, teacher and friend, and I know that he is going to be a great addition to Sirenland 2010.
Cheers,
Hannah
Hannah
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I'm not big on inspirational quotes, but this is one of the best pieces of advice about writing that I've ever come across.
One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. ...Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.
-- Annie Dillard from The Writing Life
Michael
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"I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer."
-- Doris Lessing
Thanks to Scott Myers
Michael
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