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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August 28, 2013
Website Scavenger Hunt Winners
Announcing the winners of the AWP Website one-year anniversary scavenger hunt! Read more...
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August 23, 2013
The Today Show Announces Book Club
The Today show announced its plans to launch a monthly book club for adults. The first selection is The Bone Season by debut novelist Samantha Shannon. Read more...
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August 23, 2013
Elmore Leonard Has Died
Crime novelist Elmore Leonard, 87, died on August 20th due to complications from a stroke. Read more...
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August 23, 2013
PEN America Literary Award Winners Announced
PEN America announced on August 14th the winners of the 2013 Pen America Literary Awards. Sergio De La Pava won the PEN/Robert Bingham Prize of $25,000 for a debut work for his novel A Naked Singularity. Read more...
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August 22, 2013
Redesigned AWP Website is One Year Old!
To thank you for visiting the AWP website on its first birthday, the staff of AWP would like to welcome you to take part in a scavenger hunt throughout the website. Read more...
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August 15, 2013
AWP, Writer’s Chronicle On List of Top Advocates for Poetry
The Huffington Post recently featured a list of the top 200 “most ardent” advocates for American poetry, which included the Association of Writers and Writing Programs and the Writer’s Chronicle. Read more...
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August 15, 2013
Wendell Berry Wins Dayton Literary Peace Prize Lifetime Achievement Award
The Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award, presented by the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation, was given to author, poet, and essayist Wendell Berry. Read more...
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August 15, 2013
Over A Thousand Haikus Headed to Mars
Over one thousand haiku poems selected from submissions to the ‘Going to Mars with Maven’ contest, sponsored by the University of Colorado Boulder, will be traveling to the red planet aboard NASA’s spacecraft MAVEN in November. Read more...
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August 15, 2013
Was Shakespeare a Co-author of a 1602 Play by Thomas Kyd?
University of Texas Professor Douglas Bruster presents, in a paper to be published in the September issue of Notes and Queries, what he believes to be definitive proof that the much debated lines in the 1602 edition of Thomas Kyd’s play The Spanish Tragedy were in fact written by (and not merely borrowed from) William Shakespeare. Read more...
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August 13, 2013
Audiobook Market Surges
As technology creates cutting-edge avenues for the literary consumer, a not so new idea sees new opportunities: the audiobook is now making a strong comeback. Read more...