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We at Re:WritE are pleased to announce a new season of writing and rewriting, as well as Issue 2 of our popular and much-loved publication, The Re:WritE Review!

First meeting of the fall on Wednesday, September 9!
The first meeting of the season will be a DTR of sorts, in which we will welcome everybody back, find out what your writing goals are for the year, and decide how we can help you get there. Whether you're new and don't know any of us, or you've been waiting in agony all summer for us to start up again, come! No actual relationship discussions/screaming fights will occur (we hope).
When: next Wednesday, September 9, 7:00pm.
Where: Aurora's place: 601 W 163rd St, Apt 6E, in Manhattan (take the A to 168th for express, or the C or 1 if you don't really care or want to be fashionably late).
If you have something you want to workshop, bring it. If not, bring a favorite passage written by someone else, or anything you want to read to us. Also, if you have any nice rocks, Aurora's new fish Herman is accepting housewarming gifts for his bowl..

The Re:WritE Review, Issue 2: Open for Submissions!
Submissions period: September 1 - November 15
For this issue we are accepting fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and plays. Please keep poetry submissions under 12 pages, and everything else under 5000 words. Send your work to rewritenyc@gmail.com. You are highly encouraged to submit early, even if you're only at the stage of an early draft, so that you'll have plenty of time to revise in case we have any suggestions for you. Priority is given to writers who attend or have attended ReWritE workshops, though we love to include guest writers as well.

Re:WritE Review Spatu-licious Short Story Contest!
Give yourself a shot at instantaneous fame and glory: write a story for our new contest!
Here are the rules:
Winning stories will be printed in Issue 2, and the winners will each receive a free copy of the book.
Send your entries to rewritenyc@gmail.com.
Deadline: November 15.
500 words or less.
A minimum of 3 characters must be physically present.
You must include at least 1 line of dialogue.
A character has to take off his/her shoes.
A character must be wearing an article of clothing that reveals something about his/her personality.
Your story must include a spatula.
Hint: For the best shot at winning, do yourself a favor and work these elements as seamlessly as possible into your story.
Example of what NOT to write:
John, Mark and Luke were in Jesus' kitchen, when Jesus said, "John, take off your shoes." So John took off his shoes. Jesus was wearing a white robe which reveals that he was innocent. Then Luke took a spatula and made everybody pancakes.

We at the Review offices eagerly await your high-caliber spatula stories and other submissions. =) In the meantime, see you next Wednesday!

Happy writing,

Re:WritE Yearbook Staff.

We've arrived...

A Re:WritE-internal email from Ben to Aurora:

"so...

my brother went to virginia for the summer. he has a room in ann arbor in a big house owned by a church because he works for the church and gets to live there for free. so..he left his door locked, but somehow his room got broken into while he was gone. luckily, he had all the important things with him. the only thing the stole other than some gift cards were text books to sell online. and i just got a text from my brother stating that he just realized he cannot find his Rewrite Review book, which means a thief somewhere is trying to sell our book online OR is reading it himself. our book is worth stealing! hell yes."

What's that? Yes of course you can buy the Re:Write Review at McNally Jackson Bookstore at 52 Prince Street. Yes, of Course.

Hey Folks,

I just wanted to give you all an update on some great things happening at Re:Write.

I'll be brief:

1. The Re:Write Review is available for purchase at McNally Jackson Bookstore in NYC!! If you haven't been to McNally then you are missing out on the best book store in the city. It's on the corner of Prince and Mulberry in Nolita (52 Prince). It's upstairs in the Literary Periodicals section...near the magazines I believe. Please go check it out, send your friends there to buy it, go take pictures of it with your cell phone (note attached photo), bring dates there and "Oh what's this? Wow look at this freaking awesome book with a rocket ship on the cover. Oh yeah, yeah that's sorta my writer's group book, no big deal"...you know classy stuff like that.


The Re:WritE Review at McNally Jackson!

2. We will begin new groups in the fall in preparation for Issue 2 of the Re:Write Review, which will also be on shelves at McNally Jackson. So start writing now! There will be contests and themes announced in a month or so.

That is all for now. Stay tuned for more news.

Keep writing,

the boys & aurora.

You Are Invited!

Re:WritE is open for business!

Friends and lovers,

The books are in and we at the Re:WritE offices are pulling out our cash boxes, shipping tape and crayons (for autographing, of course!), ready to take your orders.

Pre-order your copy today, and you'll be the first to receive it once it's released!

The Re:WritE Review
Issue 1: The Early Years
Release: May 7, 2009
$15.00 (+$3.00 shipping)

Click here to see some sample pages.
(Don't order the book from Lulu! Use our link. Or else.)

As someone who helped put this book together, I happen to think it's worth every penny. But as you'll notice, it is cheaper at our launch party:

The Re:WritE Review Launch Party
Thursday, May 7, 2009, 7pm
reBar: 147 Front St, Brooklyn (one stop in on the F train)
Admission: Free! (but buy something at the bar!)
Music by Beau Jennings.
Readings by:
Benjamin Lawrence Dolson
Joel Ealy
Lindsey Michael Miller
Aurora Bell
Kristin Froberg
Books on sale for $10.

Hope to see you there!

Email us at rewritenyc@gmail.com with your questions, or any special shipping instructions or autograph requests.

April showers bring... boxes of books?

Friends,

Exciting news from the writing front this spring!

Re:WritE is releasing its very own, first-ever anthology: The Re:WritE Review, Issue 1: The Early Years! Come to our book release party:

The Re:WritE Review Launch Party
Thursday, May 7, 2009, 7pm
reBar: 147 Front St, Brooklyn (one stop in on the F train)
Admission: Free! (but buy something at the bar!)
Music by Beau Jennings.
Readings by:
Benjamin Lawrence Dolson
Lindsey Michael Miller
Joel Ealy
Aurora Bell
Kristin Froberg

Please join us for books, whiskey, crayons, and more. (At Re:WritE, we believe that this is all one needs for a successful Thursday night out.) We will also be announcing the winners of our Flash Fiction Contest.

Copies of The Re:WritE Review will be on sale for $10, so bring your favorite form of cash.

Email any questions to rewritenyc@gmail.com.

If you won't be able to attend the launch party, sample pages and info on how to order the book will be provided soon.

In other news, our Saturday morning meetings continue:
Saturday, April 25, 10am
Lindsey's apartment in Brooklyn
82 Livingston St, Apt 2 (top buzzer)
Lindsey's cell: 719.310.2961
Breakfast is (usually) provided. Bring yourselves and any beautiful writing you may have done.

Welcome to Re:WritE!

Re:WritE is a writing collective that seeks to nurture, introduce, and promote new voices.

We are local and global and independent.

What we offer is a new writing lifestyle that preserves the necessarily independent act of writing but that insists on the strength of community. Weekend writing seminars are not enough. Our belief is that beautiful, original writing will arise from a combination of work-shopping, craft study, and community.

This is a call for weekend warriors and late night bloggers to come out of the literary closet and join a collection of fellow artists who are committed to each other’s success and growth.

We encourage all levels of involvement. If you want to join one of our writing circles, then we are for you. If you want to exchange your finished text for critique with another author, then we are for you. If you want to be published in our Review, we are for you. If you want opportunities to read your work publicly then we are for you.

This movement is artistically broad. We hope that what begins as a movement of writers will encourage other artists of every aesthetic discipline to cluster around us so that our community will expand into something more creatively holistic.

So grab your pen and your Moleskine and join us in this adventure. We’d love to meet you.