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 1, 2008
Doris Betts Receives the 2008 Geroge Garrett Award For Outstanding Community Service in Literature
Each year at the AWP Annual Conference and Bookfair, AWP bestows upon a new recipient the George Garrett Award for Outstanding Community Service in Literature. Read more...
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March 1, 2008
The 2008 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
Tom Sleigh has been selected as the 2008 winner of the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Award for Space Walk. Read more...
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March 1, 2008
Literary Journal Donates Copies to Troops
Courant.com reports that Connecticut Review, a literary journal edited by faculty members of the Connecticut State University system, will provide 400 copies of its latest edition to Connecticut-based members of the U.S. Armed Forces stationed overseas. Read more...
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March 1, 2008
Another Nonfiction Narrative Embroiled in Controversy
Memoirist Ishmael Beah, author of the bestselling A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, is the most recent writer under scrutiny for alleged inaccuracies in his story, which has sold nearly 700,000 copies Read more...
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March 1, 2008
Richard Ford Leaves Knopf For Ecco
According to Publishers Weekly, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author has signed a three-book deal with Ecco, for two novels and a story collection. Daniel Halpern, Ecco publisher, closed the deal for U.S. rights. Ford’s first book for Ecco will tentatively be titled Canada, and is slated for a 2010 publication. Read more...
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March 1, 2008
Statistics Baffle Word Works
The Word Works Washington Prize, an annual poetry book contest, announced that among its 257 manuscript entries in 2007, 25% of the manuscripts came from only two states: 40 from New York and 24 from California, despite the contest being open to all U.S. and Canada residents. Read more...
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March 1, 2008
EKU Magic Bus
Eastern Kentucky Univeristy (EKU), chartered a bus to bring creative writing faculty and students to New York City for the AWP Annual Conference and Bookfair. Read more...
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March 1, 2008
The Arab World is the Market Focus for the 2008 London Book Fair
The London Book Fair will run from April 14–16, 2008. According to the British Council of Arts, the Arab world encompasses the twenty countries and two states which have Arabic as their registered official language. Read more...
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March 1, 2008
Academe can be Murder
Defendant Jay Glosser, a former professor at Tidewater Community College in Norfolk, was sentenced to eight-and-a-half years in prison after pleading guilty “to commit murder-for-hire, solicitation and conspiracy to commit extortion,” according to the Virginian Pilot. Read more...
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March 1, 2008
Joyce Carol Oates is Nominated in Two Categories for National Book Critics Circle Award
Author and AWP 2008 NYC Conference Featured Presenter, Joyce Carol Oates, recently received two nominations for the National Book Critics Circle Award, in both the fiction and autobiography categories. Read more...