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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June 1, 2009
Mysterious Benefactor Awarded Over $45 Million to Universities
During the month of April, a mysterious donor has awarded over $45 million to more than nine universities, according to Michael Crumb of the Associated Press. Read more...
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June 1, 2009
Deborah Digges 1950-2009
Poet and memoirist Deborah Digges died on April 10 near Amherst, Massachusetts, the New York Times reports. Read more...
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May 1, 2009
Experts Date Two Recent Finds to Shakespeare’s Lifetime
The BBC reports that, last summer in the Shoreditch area of London, archaeologists unearthed the remains of the great Bard’s first theatre. Read more...
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May 1, 2009
New Mexico Senate Rejects Proposed Takeover of College of Santa Fe
The New Mexico State Senate recently voted 28-11 against providing nearly $3 million in order to save the privately operated College of Santa Fe, which is scheduled to close down in May. Read more...
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May 1, 2009
Papa’s Papers
In January, Cuba began accepting requests for electronic access to 3,197 documents, which once belonged to Ernest Hemingway. Read more...
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May 1, 2009
James Otis Purdy (1914-2009)
James Purdy, fiction writer, poet, dramatist, and visual artist, died March 13 in Englewood, N.J., according to the New York Times. Read more...
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May 1, 2009
Awards
From the May/Summer 2009 issue of the Writer's Chronicle Read more...
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May 1, 2009
Richard Jackson Receives the 2009 Geroge Garrett Award For Outstanding Community Service in Literature
At the 2009 AWP Conference and Bookfair in Chicago, AWP announced its recipient of the George Garrett Award for Outstanding Community Service in Literature, presenting the award to Richard Jackson of University of Tennessee, Chattanooga. Read more...
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May 1, 2009
AWP Board of Contributing Editors
AWP Board of Contributing Editors Read more...
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May 1, 2009
PEN Appeals
As an Appeals Court readies to hear a challenge to the exclusion of Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan from the U.S., PEN and fifty-nine other organizations have written the Obama administration in an effort to curtail the practice of denying visitation rights to foreign writers, intellectuals, and activists based on their political beliefs. Read more...