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Merridawn Duckler's "The Relatives"

Manhattan Shakespeare Project has chosen Merridawn Duckler's play, "The Relatives," for the 2010 Emerging Female Voices Playwrights' Fest, to be produced as a reading for Second Childishness and Mere Oblivion.
November 22, 2010.

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Atheneum at the Attic Institute \| Application Deadline: May 30
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January 24 \| Micro Class \| How To Improve Your Writing \| Peter Zuckerman (FULL - WAIT LIST ONLY)
January 31 \| Micro Class \| I've Read Every Book on Writing! Here's What You Need to Know! \| Peter Zuckerman (FULL - WAIT LIST ONLY)
February 1 - March 21 \| Creative Nonfiction: The Art of Telling Stories That Happen To Be True \| Liz Prato (FULL-WAIT LIST ONLY)
February 5 - March 31 \| LIfe Sketches for 55-Over Writers \| Judith Pulman \| At Annie Bloom's
February 7 \| MIcro Class \| Conflict, Action, and Suspense \| Peter Zuckerman
February 14 \| Micro Class \| Triage Revising More Effectively \| Peter Zuckerman
February 18 - March 17 \| Time to Write B \| Dave Jarecki
February 20 - March 19 \| Fiction Workshop \| Greg Robillard
February 20 - March 19 \| Reflective Writing Memoir Technique Workshop \| Jennifer Lauck
February 20 - March 19 \| The Music of Poetry: An Exploration of Prosody \| John Morrison
February 20 - March 23 \| Literary Therapy \| David Biespiel
February 23 - March 22 \| More Radical Redrafting \| Matthew Dickman (FULL - WAIT LIST ONLY)
February 23 - March 22 \| Writing Narratives: Explorations of Voice \| Vanessa Veselka
March 7 - April 4 \| Sexy on the Page: Writing and Editing Stories of Sex and Romance \| Shanna Germain
March 7 - May 16 \| Travel Writing \| Martha Gies
March 16-18 \| 2nd Annual Creative Renewal Weekend at the Historic Balch Hotel \| David Biespiel

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