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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August 21, 2012
Awful, Excellent Results of the 2012 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
Annually, since 1982, the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest has celebrated the best intentionally bad opening sentences to a novel submitted throughout the year. Named after Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, the author who penned one of the most infamous opening lines to a novel, "It was a dark and stormy night" the contest is administered by the San Jose State University English Department. Read more...
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December 19, 2011
The 2011 United States Artists Fellows
Annually, United States Artists (USA) awards $50,000 grants to fifty artists from different disciplines including music, theater, dance, crafts, & writing, among others. This year’s fellows included five writers: poets Terrance Hayes, A.E. Stallings, & Campbell McGrath, fiction writer Karen Tei Yamashita, & playwright Annie Baker. Read more...
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December 16, 2011
Milkweed Editions' Shiny New Poetry Prize
The Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry from Milkweed Editions offers, in its inaugural year, $10,000 and publication of a book of poems by a poet currently living in North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, or Wisconsin Read more...
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December 1, 2011
The 2011 National Book Award Winners: Nikky Finney Shines
The four recipients of the 2011 National Book Awards are Jesmyn Ward in Fiction for her novel Salvage the Bones; Nikky Finney in Poetry for her collection Head Off & Split; Stephen Greenblatt in Nonfiction for The Swerve: How the World Became Modern; and Thanhha Lai in Young People’s Literature for Inside Out & Back Again. Read more...
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November 23, 2011
NEA Fellowships for Prose Announced
The 2012 National Endowment for the Arts’ Literature Fellowships in Creative Writing (Prose) have been announced. Read more...
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November 12, 2011
Brief Interview with Novelist Scott Blackwood
Scott Blackwood was one of ten recipients of this year’s recently announced Whiting Writers’ Awards, largely for his 2009 novel, We Agreed to Meet Just Here, which won the AWP Prize for the Novel, judged by Robert Eversz. Read more...
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November 1, 2011
This Year's Whiting Writers' Awards Winners
The Whiting Foundation has announced the ten recipients of the 2011 Whiting Writers’ Awards winners, featuring novelist Ryan Call, poet Don Mee Choi, nonfiction writer Paul Clemens, and playwright Amy Herzog. Read more...
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October 21, 2011
The Importance of Literary Prizes by Daniel D'Angelo
Writers find prizes important because they bring at least a little fame, a little cash, and hopefully a prominent publication. Read more...
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October 21, 2011
Julian Barnes Wins Man Booker Prize
According to BBC News, on October 18, Julian Barnes won the 2011 Man Booker Prize for his novel, The Sense of an Ending. Read more...
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October 18, 2011
Nobel Prize in Literature Goes to Tomas Transtromer
On October 6, 2011, poet and psychologist Tomas Transtromer became the first Swedish recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature since 1974. Read more...
