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, 2007
Thousands of Words Shed Hyphens
The pressure of the Internet age has resulted in about 16,000 words losing their hyphens according to a Reuters report by Simon Rabinovitch Read more...
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December 1, 2007
Stuart Dybek wins the MacArthur Award
A Distinguished Writer in Residence at Northwestern University, Stuart Dybek has won the $500,000 stipend which will be paid out in equal quarterly installments over five years. Read more...
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December 1, 2007
A New Award for an AWP Award Winner
M. Evelina Galang’s One Tribe, which won the 2004 AWP Award Series Prize for the Novel, has now won the Global Filipino Literary Award for Fiction published by Western Michigan University in 2006. Read more...
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December 1, 2007
WBAI Radio Retreats out of Fear
A New York Times editorial states that WBAI, the flagship radio of “cocky resistance to government excess,” will not risk a 50th anniversary broadcast of the late poet Allen Ginsberg’s recording of “Howl.” Read more...
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December 1, 2007
House Republicans Introduce a Draft Bill to Reauthorize the Higher Education Act (HEA)
The bill will authorize a Pell Grant maximum of $6,000, will eliminate the loan auction pilot program recently passed in the reconciliation bill, and will adopt a single definition of “institution of higher education” that will lump nonprofit and for-profit colleges together. Read more...
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December 1, 2007
Doris Lessing Wins the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature
The $1.6 million prize was won by the Briton, who was born in Persia (Iran), raised in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), and now resides in London. The soon-to-be eighty-eight author never finished high school. Read more...
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December 1, 2007
Award To Hollander Polarizes Poetry Society Of America
After voting to award the Frost Medal, an annual award, to John Hollander, the board of the Poetry Society of America (PSA) erupted into fulminations that led to the resignations of board members. Read more...
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October 1, 2007
Grace Paley (1922-2007)
Celebrated writer and social activist, Grace Paley, died on August 22, 2007. Read more...
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October 1, 2007
Liam Rector (1949-2007)
Poet and educator, Liam Rector, died on August 15, 2007. Read more...
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October 1, 2007
Bernhard DeBoer Declares Bankruptcy
DeBoer Distributors, which had been in business for the last sixty years, has now closed shop. Read more...