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 1, 2008
David Foster Wallace (1962-2008)
David Foster Wallace died September 12, 2008 in Claremont, California. He was born on February 21, 1962, in Ithaca, New York, and raised in Illinois. Read more...
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December 1, 2008
Reginald Shepherd (1963-2008)
Reginald Shepherd died on September 10, 2008 at his home in Pensacola, Florida. Read more...
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December 1, 2008
Hayden Carruth (1921-2008)
Hayden Carruth, poet and author of more than thirty books, died September 29 at his home in Munnsville, New York, after a series of strokes. Read more...
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December 1, 2008
New Editor-In-Chief At Ploughshares
Ladette Randolph assumed duties as Director and Editor-in-Chief of Ploughshares October 1 Read more...
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December 1, 2008
Nobel Awarded To French Writer
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, novelist, children’s author, and essayist, has received the 2008 Nobel Prize for literature Read more...
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December 1, 2008
Dana Gioia To Leave NEA
The Washington Post reports that Dana Gioia, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, plans to leave the federal agency in January. Read more...
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October 1, 2008
Awards
From the October 2008 issue of the Writer's Chronicle Read more...
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October 1, 2008
New Spelling Not Error
Bucks New University Professor Ken Smith, in an article published in the Times Higher Education Supplement, argues that the most common spelling errors should not be corrected, but rather, accepted as “variant spellings.” Read more...
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October 1, 2008
Search For a New Face in Chinese Literature
The Penguin Publishing Group has joined the Changjiang Art & Literature Publishing House in China to establish a new literary prize entitled “The Next—A Search for the New Face of Chinese Literature.” Read more...
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October 1, 2008
More Plagiarism
Crime novelist Lynda La Plante has been accused of lifting passages from Olga Lengyel's 1947 memoir Five Chimneys for her 1993 novel, Entwined. Read more...