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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January 31, 2014
Religious Extremism Burns Library in Lebanon
Vandals set fire to the Al Sa’eh Library in Tripoli, destroying an estimated 50,000 books. Read more...
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January 17, 2014
Crime Novel by Convicted Murderer Wins Award
Cuts Through Bone by Alaric Hunt won the Private Eye Writers of America $10,000 and publishing contract prize. Read more...
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January 17, 2014
Scientific Study Claims Ability to Predict Best-Selling Novels
Scientists from Stony Brook University conducted a study using a technique called statistical stylometry to analyze a book’s commercial success to within eighty-four-percent accuracy. Read more...
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January 14, 2014
How Many Novelists are there in America?
While statistics and polls might provide a broad picture of shifting trends in U.S. writer demographics, getting accurate numbers to show how many novelists reside in America has proven problematic at best. Read more...
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January 14, 2014
What Novels Do to Your Brain
A study, conducted by Emory University and published in Brain Connectivity’s December issue, demonstrates that reading can alter brain activity in surprising ways. Scientists ran brain scans on twenty-one subjects over the span of three weeks during and after they read chapters from Pompeii: A Novel by Robert Harris. Read more...
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December 10, 2013
Controversial Poet Amiri Baraka is Dead
Baraka, seventy-nine, born Everett LeRoi Jones, was New Jersey’s Poet Laureate from 2002-2003. Read more...
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December 1, 2013
Moveable Type: Talking with Kate Lorenz, Editor of Parcel
AWP recently had the opportunity to interview Kate Lorenz, editor of Parcel, a Lawrence, Kansas-based journal of poetry, prose, and artwork open for submissions year-round. Read more...
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November 27, 2013
Can A National College Rating System Accurately Rate Liberal Arts Programs?
President Obama’s proposed national college rating system is an attempt to reinvent the method by which colleges get funding in order to ensure a fair opportunity for students across ethnic and economic lines. Read more...
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November 27, 2013
Poet Wanda Coleman Has Died at 67
Poet Wanda Coleman, often referred to as the unofficial poet laureate of Los Angeles, died from a long illness at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Read more...
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November 27, 2013
The 2013 National Book Awards
The winners of the National Book Award, an annual prize of $10,000 and a bronze trophy, awarded in the categories of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and young people’s literature were announced at a ceremony in New York City on November 20. Read more...