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 1, 2007
Lucille Clifton Wins the 2007 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
Poet Lucille Clifton is the winner of the 2007 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. Read more...
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September 1, 2007
David Wojahn Receives the 2007 O.B. Hardison, Jr. Poetry Prize
The prize comes with a cash prize of $10,000, and includes a reading at the Folger in October of 2007. Read more...
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May 1, 2007
Poet Laureate Donald Hall Selects 2007 Witter Bynner Fellows
The two new voices in poetry are Whitworth Associate Professor of English Laurie Lamon and newspaperman David Tucker. Read more...
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May 1, 2007
R.H.W. Dillard Receives the 2007 George Garrett Award for Outstanding Community Service in Literature
At the AWP Conference in Atlanta, Richard Dillard accepted the 2007 George Garrett Award for Outstanding Community Service in Literature. Read more...
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May 1, 2007
Three Nonprofit Presses Receive the National Endowment for the Arts' Literature in Translation Grants
Archipelago Books of Brooklyn, New York; Dalkey Archive Press of Champaign, Illinois; and Etruscan Press of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania were named the three recipients of NEA’s International Literature Awards, which grant $10,000 to small presses to publish works in translation Read more...
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March 1, 2007
Past AWP Nonfiction Winner's Book is Finalist for national Book Critics Circle Award
Lia Purpura’s book of essays, On Looking, published by Sarabande, is a finalist for this Award. Read more...
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March 1, 2007
New $10,000 Novel Prize
Boaz Boaz Publishing, a tiny literary publisher in Albany, California, has created a new $10,000 award for unpublished novels. Read more...
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March 1, 2007
Sobol Prize Canceled
The controversial contest that promised unpublished writers cash, literary representation, and publication, has been canceled Read more...
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March 1, 2007
Johns Hopkins University to Publish Prose of T.S. Eliot
Johns Hopkins University Press and Faber & Faber will copublish The Complete Prose of T.S. Eliot Read more...
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March 1, 2007
Dorothy Allison Selected for Membership in the Fellowship of Southern Writers
Allison is the recipient of the 2007 Robert Penn Warren Award for Fiction, and her debut novel, Bastard Out of Carolina, set in Greenville and inspired by her painful childhood, was a finalist for the 1992 National Book Award Read more...
