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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March 16, 2012
National Book Critics Circle Award Winners Announced
In early March 2012, the new winners of the National Book Critics Circle Award were announced. Read more...
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March 16, 2012
Poetry Foundation's Inaugural President, John Barr, to Retire
In a recent announcement from the Poetry Foundation, John Barr, inaugural President of the Foundation, has decided to retire at the end of 2012, after a decade of his leadership. Read more...
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March 1, 2012
Moveable Type: Spotlight on Rattle and Ink Node
A great metaphor and a viral web of invitations. Read more...
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February 24, 2012
Legendary Publisher Barney Rosset Has Died
Barney Rosset died at age 89 after having heart surgery on February 21, 2012. Read more...
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February 23, 2012
The 2012 PEN/Faulkner Award Finalists
Five books of fiction published in 2011�Anita Desai�s The Artist of Disappearance, Russell Banks�s Lost Memory of Skin, Don DeLillo�s The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories, Julie Otsuka�s The Buddha in the Attic, and Steven Millhauser�s We Others: New and Selected Stories�have been nominated as finalists for the 2012 PEN/Faulkner Award. Read more...
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February 10, 2012
The Man Behind Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Farrar, Straus, & Giroux is a very recognizable brand name behind countless prestigious literary titles. Read more...
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February 10, 2012
Penn State Cuts MFA Program
According to the Centre Daily Times of State College, PA, Penn State University's English department will cut its MFA in creative writing program. Read more...
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February 10, 2012
Major Bookstores Boycott Amazon Books
Leading book retailers, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, and Canada’s Indigo Books, have announced they will not sell any of Amazon’s books. Read more...
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February 2, 2012
Nobel Poet Laureate Wislawa Szymborska Dies
Winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize for Poetry, Poland's Wislawa Szymborska, 88, died of lung cancer in her sleep on the evening of February 1, 2012. Read more...
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February 1, 2012
Moveable Type: Spotlight on draft and Zone 3
"The journal of process" and a journal originally named for a seed packet. Read more...