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, 2007
Debut British Writer Wins Bad Sex in Fiction Award
Iain Hollinshead beat literature stalwarts like Booker Prize nominee David Mitchell, best seller Mark Haddon, and literary maverick Thomas Pynchon to the prize which aims to skewer "the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel." Read more...
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December 1, 2006
2006 Nobel Prize for Literature Goes to Turkish Novelist Orhan Pamuk
“who in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures,” the Nobel Foundation announced. Read more...
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December 1, 2006
The 2006 National Book Award Finalists
Winners will be announced on November 15 in Manhattan, and will receive $10,000 and a bronze statue; finalists receive $1,000 and a bronze medal. Read more...
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December 1, 2006
Kiran Desai Wins Man Booker Prize
The 35-year old Indian writer, author of The Inheritance of Loss, is the youngest woman ever to win the Man Booker Prize, Britain’s most prestigious literary award. Read more...
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March 1, 2006
AWP Award Series Finalist on Book Tour
More Like Not Running Away, a novel by Paul Shepherd, hit bookstores at the end of 2005. Read more...
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March 1, 2006
2005 Winners of Isherwood Fellowships in Fiction Writing Announced
The main purpose of the Christopher Isherwood Foundation is to contribute significantly to the flourishing of American letters by awarding grants to published novelists Read more...
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March 1, 2006
Oregon Literary Fellowships Recipients Announced
Literary Arts is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2005 Oregon Literary Fellowships to writers and to publishers. Read more...
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March 1, 2006
Ashland Poetry Press Announces Prize Winners
Richard Snyder Publication Prize: Christine Gelineau, of Windsor, New York, won the 2004 Richard Snyder Publication Prize for Remorseless Loyalty. Read more...
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March 1, 2006
Newbery and Caldecott Award Winners Announced
According to an article in Publisher’s Weekly, Lynne Rae Perkins has won the 2005 John Newbery Medal for her novel Criss Cross (Greenwillow), and Chris Raschka won the 2005 Randolph Caldecott Medal for The Hello, Goodbye Window, written by Norton Juster (Hyperion/di Capua). Read more...
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March 1, 2006
Winner of the Italo Calvino Prize Announced
The University of Louisville is happy to announce that the first winner of the annual Italo Calvino Prize in Fabulist Fiction is Kenneth Calhoun of Durham, North Carolina. Read more...
