The Writer’s News
The Writer’s News keeps you informed about new developments in the writing world, including award and publication announcements, news from AWP and the field, and updates about important literary figures.
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March 1, 2008
EKU Magic Bus
Eastern Kentucky Univeristy (EKU), chartered a bus to bring creative writing faculty and students to New York City for the AWP Annual Conference and Bookfair. Read more...
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May 1, 2007
5,200 Attended AWP's Conference & Bookfair in Atlanta this Past March
Featuring more than 250 literary events, 350 exhibiting presses, 1,000 presenters, and forty receptions, dances, and parties, AWP’s conference was a smashing success. Read more...
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February 1, 2007
Houghton Mifflin Accepts Buyout
For nearly $1.8 billion, the textbook-publishing giant has accepted a buyout from Riverdeep Holdings, an Irish educational software company. Read more...
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March 1, 2006
AWP Award Series Finalist on Book Tour
More Like Not Running Away, a novel by Paul Shepherd, hit bookstores at the end of 2005. Read more...
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February 1, 2005
AWP Announces New & Improved Online Forum for Writers: The Writers’ Circle.
AWP announces a recent addition to assist in fostering an online literary community, The Writers’ Circle. Read more...
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March 1, 2000
Creative Writing & Its Discontents
Since the 1980s, criticisms of writing workshops and programs have become an occasional feature in glossy magazines, newspapers, literary magazines, academic journals, and books of literary criticism. Meanwhile, in the fiefdoms of academe, literary scholars, theorists, and writers often compete for the same awards, grants, endowed chairs, and budget lines; and that competition compels each camp to trivialize the other. In both the national and local commentary on writing programs, the misrepresentations can be lurid. Read more...
