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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September 1, 2012
Moveable Type: Spotlight on the African Poetry Book Series
The announcement of the African Poetry Book Series. Read more...
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August 22, 2012
AWP Launches Redesigned Website & Releases List of Accepted Events for 2013 Conference Online Services to Members and Writers Enhanced. 516 Events Accepted for Annual Conference & Bookfair in Boston.
AWP has launched a redesigned website at awpwriter.org with new community-building features and enhanced functionality. The site, which is visited by nearly 80,000 unique users each month, includes updates to AW'P's Guide to Writing Programs, the Directory of Writer's Conferences & Centers, the AWP Job List, the Writer's Calendar, and the Writer's News. Read more...
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August 21, 2012
Goodreads Boasts 10 Million Members
As of mid-August, Goodreads, a fast-trending social networking site for book-lovers to discover, share, and expand their literary interests, now has over ten million members. Read more...
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August 21, 2012
Awful, Excellent Results of the 2012 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
Annually, since 1982, the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest has celebrated the best intentionally bad opening sentences to a novel submitted throughout the year. Named after Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, the author who penned one of the most infamous opening lines to a novel, "It was a dark and stormy night" the contest is administered by the San Jose State University English Department. Read more...
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August 21, 2012
Oranges to Apples; Apple May be New Sponsor of UK Prize for Women's Fiction
Since Orange, a mobile services company in the UK, parted ways in May with the Orange Prize for Fiction after a sixteen-year union, the prize has been searching for a new sponsor. While the prize organization has not made such confirmation, unnamed sources have said that Apple is in the running. Read more...
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August 15, 2012
An Interview with Claudia Emerson by Brian Brodeur Podcast Episode #48
The AWP Podcast Series episode 48 brings you an interview with Claudia Emerson, conducted by Brian Brodeur at the 2012 AWP Conference & Bookfair in Chicago. Read more...
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August 1, 2012
Random House Television
FremantleMedia and Random House, both owned by the media conglomerate Bertelsmann AG, have joined up to launch Random House Television. Read more...
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August 1, 2012
New F. Scott Fitzgerald Story Appears in the New Yorker
Once rejected by the New Yorker all the way back in 1936, F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story "Thank You For The Light" has finally found a home. Read more...
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August 1, 2012
Gore Vidal Has Died
Prolific cultural commentator, novelist, essayist, and sometimes politician Gore Vidal died Tuesday of complications with pneumonia. Read more...
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July 24, 2012
The Newly Downsized University of Missouri Press
Funding was cut on July 1 for the University of Missouri Press, which had previously received $400,000 in annual funds to support the Press, its staff of ten, and its backlist of 2,000 titles published over the course of its fifty-four-year history. Read more...