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, 2011
National Poetry Slam Finals
This year’s National Poetry Slam championship wrapped up in mid-August, featuring a gathering of over 300 poets & performers from 76 teams from around the globe, at over 100 events across eleven event venues in the Boston & Cambridge areas. Read more...
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September 1, 2011
Awards
From the September 2011 issue of the Writer's Chronicle Read more...
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September 1, 2011
Book Ban Lifted
American Libraries magazine reported in mid-July that the Richland Washington (state) School District board rescinded its ban of the controversial & oft-challenged Sherman Alexie book, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Read more...
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September 1, 2011
Canada’s Largest Fiction Prize: Readers Vote!
According to Publishers Weekly, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, Canada’s richest award for fiction writers, let readers choose one title to be added to the longlist. Read more...
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September 1, 2011
Payment for Positive Reviews
The New York Times reported a story on the rising number of “entrepreneurs” on the internet who are willing, for a nominal fee, write bogus-but-overly-positive reviews on websites like Amazon.com, TripAdvisor, & Yelp. Read more...
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August 23, 2011
The AWP Conference in Parody
The website Full Stop has the best parody of the conference that we’ve since Nin Andrews published “Poets on Poets / notes from AWP” in the Spring 2000 issue of the Paris Review. Read more...
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August 23, 2011
Gladwell’s Antidote to MFA Rankings
In the Valentine’s Day 2011 issue of the New Yorker, Malcolm Gladwell published an essay on the folly of academic rankings: “The Order of Things: What College Rankings Really Tell Us.” Read more...
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August 17, 2011
Top 5 Cities for Book Lovers
Localicious, a blog about urban lifestyles and trends, recently posted their “5 Best Cities for Book Lovers.” Read more...
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August 17, 2011
Faulkner Archive at UVA
Hear the voice of William Faulkner, winner of the 1949 Novel Prize for Literature, faithfully recorded and also transcribed in print. Read more...
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August 17, 2011
In Defense of MFA Programs
Brian Joseph Davis, a writer for the Huffington Post, has an encouraging column in support of the oft-challenged MFA program system. Read more...
