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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April 18, 2014
The NEA Awards $1.4 Million in Literary Grants
With an overall budget of $146 million for 2014, up from $138 million last year, the National Endowment for the Arts announced plans to award $1.42 million to fifty-six literary nonprofits in America. Read more...
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April 17, 2014
Do Print Text Books Lead to Higher Reading Comprehension Than Their Digital Counterparts?
According to a new research study from West Chester University of Pennsylvania, print textbooks may be more effective as learning tools than digital. Read more...
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April 17, 2014
The 2014 Pulitzer Prize Winners
This year’s Pulitzer Prize for fiction went to Donna Tartt for her work Goldfinch. Read more...
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April 11, 2014
Publisher Plans to Put All Wikipedia Articles Into Print
PediaPress, a German publisher, aims to take the virtual encyclopedia Wikipedia and print it in a colossal 1,000-volume set of hardcover books. Read more...
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April 11, 2014
Doctor Zhivago Used by CIA as Propaganda
Newly released documents reveal the CIA’s use of the novel Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak, in a secret campaign behind the Iron Curtain. Read more...
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April 9, 2014
Peter Matthiessen has Died
Peter Matthiessen, 86, died of leukemia Saturday April 5, 2014 in his Sagaponack, New York home. Read more...
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April 4, 2014
Trial Forthcoming: Class Action Lawsuit Against Apple in E-book Price-fixing Gets OK from Judge
U.S. District Judge Denise Cote granted class certification to the suit accusing Apple of violating antitrust law and conspiring with five major publishers to fix e-book prices. Read more...
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April 4, 2014
Karen Joy Fowler Wins 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award
For her novel, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler has won this year’s PEN/Faulkner award, which honors the best works of fiction by American authors each year. Read more...
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April 2, 2014
80 Years Post-Rejection, Samuel Beckett Story to Finally See Publication
Echo’s Bones, a 13,500-word short story commissioned for More Pricks Than Kicks, Beckett’s anthology published in 1934, was rejected and kept out of the collection. Read more...
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April 2, 2014
Amazon's Very Own Litmag is Open for Submissions
Day One, Amazon’s weekly literary journal, launched October 2013 and delivered digitally via the Kindle e-reader device, is open to submissions by unpublished authors, poets, and visual artists. Read more...