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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February 1, 2008
NEA Awards Writers More than $1 Million
Publishers Weekly Online reports that the National Endowment for the Arts will award $20.2 million to fund 908 grants. The Arts Endowment will distribute most of the money during FY 2008 to nonprofit national, regional, state, and local organizations across the country through the NEA’s Access to Artistic Excellence category. Read more...
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December 1, 2007
Stuart Dybek wins the MacArthur Award
A Distinguished Writer in Residence at Northwestern University, Stuart Dybek has won the $500,000 stipend which will be paid out in equal quarterly installments over five years. Read more...
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December 1, 2007
A New Award for an AWP Award Winner
M. Evelina Galang’s One Tribe, which won the 2004 AWP Award Series Prize for the Novel, has now won the Global Filipino Literary Award for Fiction published by Western Michigan University in 2006. Read more...
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December 1, 2007
Doris Lessing Wins the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature
The $1.6 million prize was won by the Briton, who was born in Persia (Iran), raised in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), and now resides in London. The soon-to-be eighty-eight author never finished high school. Read more...
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October 1, 2007
Dave Eggers Wins $250,000 Heinz Award in the Arts and Humanities Category
Established in 1993 by Teresa Heinz in memory of her late husband Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania, the awards, according to the Heinz Family Foundation, which administers them, “recognize exceptional leadership and accomplishments in areas of special interest to Sen. Heinz.” Read more...
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October 1, 2007
National Book Awards Ceremony Honors Joan Didion And Terry Gross
The National Book Foundation recently announced Joan Didion and Terry Gross as its honorees for the National Book Awards ceremony on November 14. Read more...
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October 1, 2007
The Mccormick Tribune Foundation Awards Women’s eNews a $40,000 Grant To Support its “New Writers Program”
A program for undergraduate and graduate students in journalism or related fields to work for Women’s eNews, new writers will work through the entire journalistic process, including brainstorming for story ideas, completing the reporting and research procedures, and writing the final news article. Read more...
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October 1, 2007
U.S. Appoints Charles Simic Poet Laureate
Succeeding fellow New Englander Donald Hall, Charles Simic was named the country’s 15th Poet Laureate by Librarian of Congress James H. Billington on August 2. Read more...
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September 1, 2007
The National Endowment for the Arts Awards
117 New Big Read Grants. Rachel Deahl of Publishers Weekly reports that the NEA has increased the participation level in its Big Read program. Read more...
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September 1, 2007
AWP Board Member wins the Bronze Award in the Poetry Category of the 2007 Independent Publisher’s Book Awards
Carolyne Wright’s book of poems, A Change of Maps, Published by Lost Horse Press has won this award. Read more...
