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 8, 2013
The 2013 Poetry Out Loud Champion
Langston Ward, with an impassioned delivery of Kenneth Rexroth’s poem, “The Bad Old Days,” has won the NEA’s 2013 Poetry Out Loud National Recitation Contest. Read more...
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May 1, 2013
Women on Top: Desmond Elliot Prize Long List Announced
The Desmond Elliot Prize, launched in 2007, awards a £10,000 prize for debut works of fiction. Read more...
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April 30, 2013
Pulitzer Prizewinners Announced
This year’s Pulitzer Prize in fiction went to Adam Johnson for The Orphan Master’s Son. Read more...
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December 12, 2012
The 2012 Whiting Award Winners
This year, ten promising writers of poetry, nonfiction, fiction, plays each received $50,000 from the Whiting Foundation. For playwriting, Danai Gurira, Samuel D. Hunter, Mona Mansour, and Meg Miroshnik received the honor; for fiction, Alan Heathcock, Anthony Marra, and Hanna Pylväinen; for poetry, Ciaran Berry and Atsuro Riley; and for nonfiction, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts. Read more...
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December 12, 2012
The 2012 National Book Award Winners
This year’s winners of the $10,000 prize, marking the sixty-third year of the National Book Awards, included Louise Erdrich in fiction (for The Round House), Katherine Boo in nonfiction (Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity), David Ferry in poetry (Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations), and William Alexander in Young People’s Literature (Goblin Secrets). In addition to the NBA laureates, novelist Elmore Leonard and New York Times publisher, Arthur O. Sulzberger, were each lauded with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Read more...
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October 24, 2012
Mo Yan Wins Nobel Prize for Literature
China’s Mo Yan, 57, received the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature along with $1.2 million, making him the second Chinese writer to receive the award. Read more...
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October 24, 2012
Hilary Mantel Wins Booker Prize Again
Hilary Mantel, 60, took home the 2012 Booker Prize and £50,000 for her historical novel Bring Up the Bodies, part two of a trilogy that charts the life of Thomas Cromwell. Read more...
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October 10, 2012
The 2012 MacArthur Fellows; Diaz and Mengestu Recognized
This year the MacArthur Foundation anointed twenty-three recipients for the MacArthur “Genius” grant. Read more...
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September 28, 2012
The Iowa Review Announces Winner in Veterans’ Writing Contest A Brief Interview with Its First Recipient, Hugh Martin, Poet and Veteran of the Iraq War
Selected by Robert Olen Butler from a field of 265 entries, the winner of the Iowa Review’s inaugural Jeff Sharlet Memorial Award for Veterans is poet Hugh Martin, veteran of the Iraq War. Read more...
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September 25, 2012
Awards
Award listing reprinted from the October/November Writer's Chronicle. Read more...
