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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October 1, 2008
2008 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
Garrison Spik, a 41-year-old communications director and writer from Washington, D.C., is the winner of the 2008 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, a contest that began at San Jose State University in 1982. Read more...
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October 1, 2008
2008 Wallace Stevens Award & Academy Fellowship
Louise Glück has been awarded the 2008 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets. Read more...
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September 1, 2008
$2.8 Million in Big Read
Publisher's Weekly reports that The National Endowment for the Arts announced another round of grants for its Big Read initiative, which is aimed at promoting reading within communities. Read more...
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September 1, 2008
Awards
From the September 2008 issue of the Writer's Chronicle Read more...
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September 1, 2008
Al Purdy—Canada's Titan
Al Purdy, among Canada’s most honored poets, was memorialized with a new statue in Queen’s Park in Toronto. Read more...
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September 1, 2008
Junot Díaz Wins the Pulitzer
Junot Díaz’s work, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, was chosen for the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Read more...
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May 1, 2008
The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
Australian author Sonya Hartnett is the newest recipient of the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. Read more...
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March 1, 2008
Doris Betts Receives the 2008 Geroge Garrett Award For Outstanding Community Service in Literature
Each year at the AWP Annual Conference and Bookfair, AWP bestows upon a new recipient the George Garrett Award for Outstanding Community Service in Literature. Read more...
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March 1, 2008
The 2008 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
Tom Sleigh has been selected as the 2008 winner of the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Award for Space Walk. Read more...
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March 1, 2008
Joyce Carol Oates is Nominated in Two Categories for National Book Critics Circle Award
Author and AWP 2008 NYC Conference Featured Presenter, Joyce Carol Oates, recently received two nominations for the National Book Critics Circle Award, in both the fiction and autobiography categories. Read more...
