Link to posting screen after logging in

Hello experts:

After my authors log in, is there a way to have a link show up that says “Click Here To Make A Post”, so that when they click it, it takes them directly to the posting screen inside the admin???

This is the block of code that I want this link to show up in (right after the words “Powered By WordPress”):

<?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar')
        || !dynamic_sidebar(2) ) : ?>

<h2>Search</h2>
<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/searchform.php'); ?>

<h2>Main Menu</h2>
<ul>
<?php wp_list_pages('title_li='); ?>
</ul>

<h2>Meta</h2>
<ul>
		<!-- <?php wp_register(); ?> -->
		<li><?php wp_loginout(); ?></li>
		<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/" title="Powered by WordPress, state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform.">WordPress</a></li>
		<?php wp_meta(); ?>
</ul>

<?php endif; ?>

Thank you,

–wpf.