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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November 13, 2014
Netflix to Produce A Series of Unfortunate Events Television Series
Netflix, which has secured the rights to Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, will adapt the series of thirteen books into a live-action series. Read more...
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November 13, 2014
Joshua Ferris Wins 2014 Dylan Thomas Prize
The 2014 Dylan Thomas Prize, which includes a £30,000 cash prize, went to Joshua Ferris, for his novel, To Rise Again at a Decent Hour. Read more...
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November 13, 2014
New E-Book Features Product Placement, Challenges Boundaries of the Digital Book
RosettaBooks, an independent e-book seller, has just released Find Me I’m Yours, a new “click lit” novel by Hillary Carlip about a young woman named Mags who works for an online bridal magazine and is searching for love in Los Angeles. Read more...
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November 13, 2014
PEN American Center to Auction Off Books Annotated by Their Authors
PEN American Center will auction off first edition copies of seventy-five books and works of art that are annotated or revised, respectively, by their original authors and artists. Read more...
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November 5, 2014
Librarians vs. Computer Algorithms
What’s better: computer-generated book recommendations, or the recommendations of a librarian? Read more...
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November 5, 2014
The Windup Bird Cafe in Toronto Offers Literary-Culinary Fusion
Less than a year ago, restaurateur, fiction writer, and playwright Sang Kim opened the Windup Bird Cafe (named after Haruki Murakami’s novel The Windup Bird Chronicle), which provides extensive literary programming to Torontonian foodie-literati. Read more...
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November 5, 2014
Florida Judge to Be Removed from Bench for Promoting Her Book in Court
The Florida Supreme Court ordered the removal of Florida Judge Judith Hawkins from Florida’s Second Circuit Court in Leon County, where she had presided since 1996, for promoting and selling her self-published book in court. Read more...
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November 5, 2014
NaNoWriMo Is Underway
It’s National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) again, which means that, for the entire month of November, thousands of aspiring and established writers everywhere are trying to work up a new novel totaling 50,000 words. Read more...
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October 30, 2014
Galway Kinnell, Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet, Has Died
The post-World War II poet, Galway Kinnell, died on Tuesday at his home in Sheffield, Vermont. He was 87. His wife, Barbara K. Bristol, attributed his death to leukemia. Read more...
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October 30, 2014
A Tweet Leads to an Organized Bookstore Lock-in
Last Friday, Waterstones hosted a sleepover for nineteen guests, who slept on airbeds with sleeping bags and took their pick of one free book. Read more...