<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Congrats, Rebecca!<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>And for the rest of you, this is exactly what I've been encouraging (for those of you who've heard me rant)-- don't do term papers just for the grade or to satisfy class requirements-- think of them (and write them) as potential submissions. It will make them more meaningful to you, and make them better anyway.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Robin</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Mar 15, 2007, at 9:24 AM, Rebecca K. O'Connor wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><O:SMARTTAGTYPE namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceName" downloadurl="http://www.5iantlavalamp.com/"> <O:SMARTTAGTYPE namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceType" downloadurl="http://www.5iantlavalamp.com/"> <O:SMARTTAGTYPE namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City" downloadurl="http://www.5iamas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"> <O:SMARTTAGTYPE namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place" downloadurl="http://www.5iantlavalamp.com/"> <DIV class="Section1"><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">Dear Professors and Fellow MFAers,<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial"><O:P> </O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">Just a quick line to announce that I have had two nonfiction pieces picked up. <O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial"><O:P> </O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">“I’m not a Hunter” which is scheduled to appear in the spring issue of the <I><SPAN style="font-style:italic">Iron Horse Literary Review</SPAN></I> out of TTU<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">and “Turning Tide” which is scheduled to be published in the fall issue of <I><SPAN style="font-style:italic">divide </SPAN></I>out of the <ST1:PLACETYPE w:st="on">University</ST1:PLACETYPE> of <ST1:PLACENAME w:st="on">Colorado</ST1:PLACENAME>/ <ST1:PLACE w:st="on"><ST1:CITY w:st="on">Boulder</ST1:CITY></ST1:PLACE> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial"><O:P> </O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">They are a nature and a falconry piece and both were written in one of our nonfiction workshops. I think the market for nonfiction is much kinder right now than that for fiction and encourage all of you to get your nonfiction circulating. There is fantastic writing coming out of this program – certainly writing better than mine and the more we get published the better for all us!<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial"><O:P> </O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">Wishing you the best for the end of your quarter!<BR> <BR> Rebecca</SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></P> </DIV> </O:SMARTTAGTYPE></O:SMARTTAGTYPE></O:SMARTTAGTYPE></O:SMARTTAGTYPE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Cwgrad-announcements mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:Cwgrad-announcements@lists.ucr.edu">Cwgrad-announcements@lists.ucr.edu</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://lists.ucr.edu/mailman/listinfo/cwgrad-announcements">http://lists.ucr.edu/mailman/listinfo/cwgrad-announcements</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>