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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March 1, 2006
Winner of the 2005 Narrative Prize Announced
Pia Z. Ehrhardt of New Orleans won the 2005 Narrative Prize for her short story “Famous Fathers.” Read more...
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March 1, 2006
AWP Award Winner is Awarded Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book
An international judging panel, meeting in Kampala, Uganda, awarded the 2006 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best First Book Award to Doreen Baingana’s Tropical Fish: Stories out of Entebbe (University Of Massachusetts Press) Read more...
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February 1, 2005
The University of Iowa Press Announces 2005 Iowa Short Fiction Award Winners.
UI Press is pleased to announce the winners of the 2005 Iowa Short Fiction Awards Read more...
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February 1, 2005
Tony Ardizzone Awarded Indiana University’s Tracy M. Sonneborn Award.
The Sonneborn Award is given to faculty members who have achieved local, national, and international distinction in both teaching and research/creative activity and their interaction. Read more...
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February 1, 2005
The Enterprise Foundation and the Freedom Forum Announce 2005 Excellence in Urban Journalism Award.
The 2005 Excellence in Urban Journalism Award is now accepting nominations. Read more...
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February 1, 2005
Poet Martin Walls Awarded Library of Congress Fellowship
The Library of Congress and Poet Laurette Ted Kooser have named Martin Walls the 2005 Witter Bynner Fellow. Read more...
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February 1, 2005
2005 May Swenson Poetry Award Winner Announced.
Utah State University Press announces that Frances Brent’s The Beautiful Lesson of the I has been selected winner of the 2005 May Swenson Poetry Award. Read more...
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February 1, 2005
Lyon College Announces the Winner of its 2004 Visiting Fellowship in Creative Writing.
Poet Peter Abbs of Eastbourne, England, won the 2004 Visiting Fellowship in Creative Writing. Read more...
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February 1, 2005
Nelson Smith Wins 2004 Margolis Award.
Nelson Smith, essayist and freelance writer, is the recipient of the 2004 Richard J. Margolis Award, given annually to a promising nonfiction writer whose work combines warmth, humor, wisdom, and concern with social justice. Read more...
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February 1, 2005
Twenty-fifth Drue Heinz Literature Prize Awarded to New Jersey Author.
David Ebenbach has been named the twenty-fifth winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, one of the nation’s most prestigious awards for a book of short stories. Read more...
