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 1, 2013
Whiting Writers' Award Winners Announced
The annual Whiting Writer’s Awards single out ten authors with “exceptional talent and promise in early career.” A prize of $50,000 is presented to early-career writers in the categories of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and plays. Read more...
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October 21, 2013
Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing and CreateSpace award grants to AWP
AWP is pleased to announce two new grants in support of our programing from Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing and CreateSpace, an Amazon company and leader in independent publishing. Read more...
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October 21, 2013
Eleanor Catton Becomes Youngest Author to Receive Booker Prize
Eleanor Catton, 28 year-old New Zealand author, wins the 2013 Booker Prize for her novel The Luminaries. Catton, the youngest writer and second New Zealander to win the prize, may also have the longest book to be awarded. Read more...
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October 21, 2013
Oscar Hijuelos, First Latino Author to Win a Pulitzer, is Dead
Cuban-American novelist Oscar Hijuelos collapsed while playing tennis, never regaining consciousness. Read more...
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October 11, 2013
Alice Munro Wins Nobel Prize for Literature
Alice Munro, 82, received the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature along with $1.2 million dollars. Read more...
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October 11, 2013
Can Reading Literary Fiction Increase Empathy?
A recent study conducted by New School For Research psychologists David Comer Kidd and Emanuele Castano shows that reading literary work stimulates empathy by engaging the ability to perceive and comprehend the emotions of others. Read more...
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October 3, 2013
Tom Clancy, Author of Best Selling Military Thrillers, is Dead
Tom Clancy, one of the world’s best-known authors, died on Tuesday at the age of 66 in a Baltimore Hospital. Read more...
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October 3, 2013
LitHop PDX, Portland’s First Literary Bar Crawl
On October 2nd LitHop PDX hosted a literary reading bar crawl in the streets of Portland—the event featured six venues and over fifty readers. Read more...
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October 3, 2013
LibriVox Brings Free Audiobooks to All
If you’ve got a computer, iPod, tablet, or a stack of blank CDs, you can now help yourself to free audiobook-versions of the works of Jane Austen, Herman Melville, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, Tolstoy, Edith Wharton, Henry James, and more. Read more...
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October 1, 2013
The 2013 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Awards
The Rona Jaffe Foundation has presented its annual Writers' Awards of $30,000 each to Tiffany Briere, Ashlee Crews, Kristin Dombek, Margaree Little, Kirstin Valdez Quade, and Jill Sisson Quinn. Read more...