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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February 23, 2016
Francisco X. Alarcón (1954–2016)
AWP was saddened to learn late that Francisco X. Alarcón passed away on January 15. Read more...
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February 22, 2016
Umberto Eco, Novelist, Semiotician, Philosopher, and More, Dies
Umberto Eco, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose, passed away from cancer late in the evening on Friday, February 19. He was 84. Read more...
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February 19, 2016
Harper Lee, Author of Pulitzer Prize–Winning To Kill a Mockingbird, Dies
Harper Lee passed away at the age of 89 in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama. Read more...
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January 14, 2016
C.D. Wright (1949–2016)
C.D. Wright, author of over a dozen books, passed away on January 12, 2016 at her home in Barrington, Rhode Island. She was 67. Read more...
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November 23, 2015
Poet Madeline DeFrees Passes Away
Madeline DeFrees, poet and long-serving Catholic nun, passed away on November 11, 2015. Read more...
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October 5, 2015
AWP Honors Professor Lawrence Levine
AWP notes with sorrow the death of Professor Lawrence Levine, who died, with many of his students, while teaching a writing class at Umpqua Community College in the mass shooting there on October 1. Read more...
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September 22, 2015
C.K. Williams Has Died
The widely adored Pulitzer Prize-winning poet C.K. Williams died Sunday at his home in Hopewell, New Jersey. He was 78. Read more...
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September 3, 2015
Oliver Sacks, Writer of Clinical Tales, Has Died
Oliver Sacks, a neurologist who wrote many books and essays about his patients, humanizing them and their relationships to their various conditions, died on Sunday in his home in Manhattan after receiving a terminal cancer diagnoses earlier this year. Read more...
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August 5, 2015
Alan Cheuse Has Died
Alan Cheuse—an author and literary commentator for NPR—died on Friday from injuries sustained in a car accident. He was seventy-five. Read more...
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July 22, 2015
Novelist E.L. Doctorow Has Died
E.L. Doctorow, writer of many widely admired and critically acclaimed novels including Ragtime and Billy Bathgate, has died due to complications from lung cancer. Read more...
