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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July 10, 2014
New Reading Technology: A Ring That Reads to the Blind
The FingerReader is a prototype product developed by scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that, using a small camera, can instantly scan printed words and read them aloud to the user. Read more...
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July 10, 2014
Print's Strengths and Weaknesses: Book Sales from the First Half of 2014
In the first six months of 2014, sales of hardcover and paperback books were up 2%, which is up from the 1% increase seen in 2013’s first half. Read more...
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July 2, 2014
AWP's Dossier Service Coming to an End
It is with regret that we announce that AWP’s decades-old dossier service will be coming to an end in March 2015. Read more...
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June 27, 2014
Wallace Stevens’s Connecticut Home is on the Market
The Hartford, CT, home of modernist poet (and insurance executive) Wallace Stevens, winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, is now on the market with an asking price of $489,900. Read more...
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June 27, 2014
Ewan McGregor to Star in Film Version of American Pastoral by Philip Roth
Cast in the role of Seymour "Swede" Levov, Ewan McGregor will star in an upcoming film adaption of Philip Roth's 1997 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, American Pastoral. Read more...
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June 27, 2014
Raymond Chandler Gets a Star in Hollywood
Long-celebrated noir-author Raymond Chandler, former president of the Mystery Writers of America who penned The Big Sleep and six other novels, received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (to be placed in 2015). Read more...
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June 20, 2014
Amy Stolls Named NEA’s New Director of Literature
On June 18th, the National Endowment for the Arts announced that Amy Stolls will be its new director of literature, a position she held as acting-director since May of last year. Read more...
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June 20, 2014
Twenty Poems by Pablo Neruda Discovered in Chile
In what his Spanish publisher, Seix Barral, called “a literary event of universal importance… the biggest find in Spanish literature in recent years,” a group of over twenty poems by the late Chilean Nobel Laureate, Pablo Neruda, were recently discovered among boxes of the author’s papers. Read more...
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June 16, 2014
Charles Wright is the Next U.S. Poet Laureate
Appointed in mid-June by the Library of Congress, Charles Wright, widely considered one of America’s greatest living poets and recipient of numerous honors, will become the twentieth “Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry.” Read more...
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June 9, 2014
Eimear McBride Wins the 2014 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction
The 2014 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, formerly known as the Orange Prize, was awarded to first-time novelist Eimear McBride for A Girl is a Half-formed Thing, published by Galley Beggar Press. Read more...