PodLit #4: Rebecca Miller - Breaking in with Book Reviewing: Becoming a Critic Can Improve Your Writing and Your Writing Future
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Listen to PodLit #4 to hear Rebecca Miller, President of the National Book Critics Circle, speak to the participants at the Mid-Atlantic Creative Nonfiction Writers' Conference in Baltimore, MD, about the benefits of book reviewing, as a career move and as a way to improve writing skills. Rebecca offers specific instructions on how to break into the writer's market through book reviewing and how to write book reviews editors want to publish.   For more information about the genre and its signature journal, Creative Nonfiction, visit www.creativenonfiction.org or e-mail [email protected].   To learn more about this year's Mid-Atlantic Creative Nonfiction Writers' Conference, where Rebecca Miller will be teaching, visit www.goucher.edu/x9141.xml.
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