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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September 10, 2015
President Obama to Award National Medals to Authors Annie Dillard, Jhumpa Lahiri, Stephen King, Tobias Wolff, and Others
Authors Annie Dillard, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Larry McMurtry are among the ten recipients who will receive National Humanities Medals from President Barack Obama on Thursday,. Read more...
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September 9, 2015
The 80th Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Winners Announced
Winners of this year’s Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards are Jericho Brown, Marilyn Chin, Richard S. Dunn, Marlon James, and David Brion Davis, who is honored with a lifetime achievement award. Read more...
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August 5, 2015
The Man Booker Prize Longlist
Earlier this week, the Booker Prize Foundation announced its longlist, which, for the second year, includes books from authors outside of the UK, the Commonwealth, Ireland, and Zimbabwe. Historically, it had only been open to authors from the aforementioned geographical locations. Read more...
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June 10, 2015
Juan Felipe Herrera Becomes First Hispanic American to Serve as U.S. Poet Laureate
Juan Felipe Herrera, the son of migrant farmworkers who came to California from Mexico during the early 20th century, became the first Hispanic American appointed to serve as the U.S. Poet Laureate. Read more...
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June 9, 2015
Jacqueline Woodson Named Young People’s Poet Laureate
The Poetry Foundation awarded Jacqueline Woodson with a two-year young people’s poet laureateship. Read more...
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June 4, 2015
Books Featuring Female Narrators Less Likely to Win Prestigious Prizes, Award Data Shows
Books featuring male narrators have received significantly more prestigious literary prizes over the last fifteen years than those written from the perspective of a female protagonist, author Nicola Griffith discovered. Read more...
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May 29, 2015
Mark Ford Wins Poetry Foundation’s Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism
Mark Ford’s This Dialogue of One: Essays on Poets from John Donne to Joan Murray (Eyewear Publishing) has won the Poetry Foundation’s Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism. Read more...
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May 29, 2015
Chautauqua Prize Goes to Phil Klay’s Redeployment
The Chautauqua Institute honored Redeployment, Phil Klay’s National Book Award-winning story collection, with its annual prize. Read more...
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May 7, 2015
Bob Shacochis Wins the 2015 George Garrett Award
The AWP Board of Directors presented this year’s George Garrett Award for Outstanding Community Service in Literature to Bob Shacochis. Read more...
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April 22, 2015
Anthony Doerr, Gregory Pardlo, & Elizabeth Kolbert Among Pulitzer Prize Winners
The 99th annual Pulitzer Prize winners in Letters, Drama, and Music, as well as in Journalism, were announced today by Columbia University. Read more...
