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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May 23, 2016
Ed Roberson Receives the 2016 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
The Poetry Foundation announced that Ed Roberson has received the 2016 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, which is awarded for outstanding achievement in the art of poetry. Read more...
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May 19, 2016
Han Kang Wins Man Booker International Prize for The Vegetarian
The Vegetarian, a surreal novel by Han Kang about a woman who believes she is turning into a tree, won the Man Booker International Prize for fiction on May 17. Read more...
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May 11, 2016
Akhei Togun Wins National Poetry Out Loud Competition
Akhei Togun, a seventeen-year-old senior at Tallwood High School in Virginia Beach, VA, won the 2016 Poetry Out Loud National Champion title at the annual Poetry Out Loud National Recitation Contest last week. Read more...
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April 21, 2016
E. Ethelbert Miller Receives 2016 George Garrett Award
On Thursday, March 31, at this year’s Annual Conference & Bookfair, AWP awarded its 2016 George Garrett Award for Outstanding Community Service in Literature to E. Ethelbert Miller. Read more...
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April 18, 2016
Pulitzer Prizes Announced
The 2016 Pulitzer Prize winners have been announced. Read more...
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April 18, 2016
Two Past Award Series Winners Take Home Major Prizes
Two previous winners of the AWP Donald Hall Prize in Poetry, Iliana Rocha and Beth Bachmann, received news this month of further honors. Read more...
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April 14, 2016
James Hannaham Wins PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
James Hannaham received the 2016 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for his second novel, Delicious Foods (Little, Brown). Read more...
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April 13, 2016
Guggenheim Foundation Announces 2016 Fellows
Last week, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced its fellowships for the year. Read more...
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April 12, 2016
Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Announced
The winners of the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were announced at the Los Angeles Festival of Books over the weekend. Read more...
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January 28, 2016
Jim Sitter Named 2016 Kay Sexton Award Winner
Jim Sitter has received the 2016 Kay Sexton Award for “long-standing dedication and outstanding work in fostering books, reading, and literary activity in Minnesota.” Read more...
