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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December 16, 2011
Milkweed Editions' Shiny New Poetry Prize
The Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry from Milkweed Editions offers, in its inaugural year, $10,000 and publication of a book of poems by a poet currently living in North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, or Wisconsin Read more...
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December 8, 2011
Ruth Stone (1915-2011)
Ruth Stone, an award-winning poet who published most of her work after the age of 70, died on November 19 of natural causes at her home in Ripton, Vermont, according to the Huffington Post. Read more...
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December 8, 2011
Publish Your Book Today at Politics & Prose
Politics & Prose, storied Washington, D.C. bookstore, recently unveiled a new service for its customers: the “Opus” print-on-demand machine. Read more...
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December 2, 2011
The Journal New Writing Delivers a Worldwide Report on Creative Writing as an Academic Discipline
AWP is no longer alone. All around the world, writers who teach have established new associations to support teachers of creative writing. Read more...
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December 1, 2011
Moveable Type: Spotlight on Dancing Girl Press & Studio and Grist
“Paper, Art, Design” and “The Journal for Writers” Read more...
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December 1, 2011
HooPalousa: Writers Playing Basketball
According to the University of Idaho, on November 15 at an event called HooPalousa in Moscow, Idaho, National Book Award winner Sherman Alexie participated in a friendly 5-on-5 basketball game made up of Native American tribe representatives, acclaimed writers, and former and current college basketball standouts. Read more...
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December 1, 2011
The 2011 National Book Award Winners: Nikky Finney Shines
The four recipients of the 2011 National Book Awards are Jesmyn Ward in Fiction for her novel Salvage the Bones; Nikky Finney in Poetry for her collection Head Off & Split; Stephen Greenblatt in Nonfiction for The Swerve: How the World Became Modern; and Thanhha Lai in Young People’s Literature for Inside Out & Back Again. Read more...
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November 23, 2011
Sandra Cisneros to Leave Texas and Macondo
According to the Texas Observer, Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street, is leaving the Macondo Foundation, the literary organization she founded fifteen years ago in order to help support Latino/Latina writers. Read more...
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November 23, 2011
NEA Fellowships for Prose Announced
The 2012 National Endowment for the Arts’ Literature Fellowships in Creative Writing (Prose) have been announced. Read more...
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November 23, 2011
Mitt Romney on the NEA and NEH
According to cnsnews.com, Mitt Romney has expressed that, if elected president of the United States, he would eliminate federal funding for the National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities. Read more...