Kelly McClure

I Write Stuff

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    • About Me:

      It All Started in A Driveway

      The first thing I ever wrote was about a seagull. I guess I saw a seagull flying around in the sky while I was standing in the driveway of my home in Southern California at the age of ten and got all inspired or something. I saw the seagull, went into my room, and wrote a poem about it. And I've been writing poems about seagulls ever since!

       

      No I haven't.

       

      In the late '90s I got my start writing for a string of local papers in suburban Illinois covering hot topics like new tanning salons and baby beauty pageant winners. I went on to freelance for a few publications in Chicago such as The Chicago Reader, New City, and Time Out Chicago. At some point I moved to New York and surfed a wave of sweaty ambition into the position of Music Editor for Bust Magazine, and later, for VICE Magazine. Alongside those I have also written for Maxim as a daily Music News Writer, The Hairpin, Thought Catalog, NY Magazine, Vanity Fair, NY Post, Destination America's paranormal site, The Hauntist, Cosmopolitan, GQ, Consequence of Sound, and Rolling Stone. In 2018 I transitioned away from entertainment coverage/reporting to focus more on fiction writing. You can find my short stories on a site I run called Daily Anne Rice, which has very little, if nothing, to do with Anne Rice.

    • WORK:

      PAPER AND INK

      Short story titled "Lucid Lupus" published in issue #12

      BUDGET PRESS

      Zine anthology of original fiction titled Terrible Stories

      CONSEQUENCE OF SOUND

      Archive

      GQ

      Archive

      VANITY FAIR

      Archive

      BLACK MARBLE

      Artist Bio

      BLACK MARBLE

      Album Bio for It's Immaterial

      NY POST

      Interview with David Lynch

      THE CUT

      Q&A with Kathleen Hanna

      COSMOPOLITAN

      Archive

      ROLLING STONE

      Archive

      ANTIGRAVITY MAGAZINE

      Archive

      MAXIM

      Archive

      TINY MIX TAPES

      Archive

      HUFFINGTON POST 

      Ryan O'Connell Talks About His First Book, 'I'm Special'

      OBSERVER

      The 10 Best Brooklyn Bands to Listen to Right Now

      BROKELYN

      Archive

      BUST MAGAZINE

      Archive

      VICE MAGAZINE

      Archive

      TOTAL BOZO MAGAZINE

      Archive

      BEDFORD + BOWERY

      Archive

      THE HAIRPIN

      Archive

      THOUGHT CATALOG

      Archive

      xoJANE

      It Happened to Me: A Cyst Ate My Ovary

      CHICAGO READER

      Archive

      VIDEO

      VICE meets Debbie Harry (2012)

      VIDEO

      Jemina Pearl with BUST Magazine

    • Press:

      Chris Sears/Tyler the Creator Fan Testimonial

      "Why is the lady who shot Andy Warhol doing music reviews?"

      Torres Testimonial

      "You are absolutely the funniest person on Twitter."

      Colleen Green Testimonial

      "Kelly McClure writes the best reviews in the entire world."

      Everett True Testimonial

      "Man, I wish I could write like that: sardonic and salacious and snappy and soulful. Sucks, don’t it, when you discover someone so fluent, so natural at a craft you once almost prided yourself at being OK in?"

      MISSY MAGAZINE

      All she can eat #5: Kelly McClure

      GAWKER

      Vice Staffers Get Some Cool Tattoos to Promote Freedom in Russia

      BROKELYN

      All the jobs I ever had: Vice Magazine music editor Kelly McClure

    • Contact Me Here:

       

      TWITTER

      FACEBOOK

      kellymcclurewritesstuff@gmail.com

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