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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October 1, 2007
Parnassus: Poetry In Review Not To Close Shop After All
Volume 30 of Parnassus will not be its last. A generous reader of the Wall Street Journal has agreed to fund the journal for two years. Read more...
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October 1, 2007
Cultural Diversity Among Students Taking The SAT
2007 saw the most diverse group of SAT takers yet, according to a recent College Board survey. Read more...
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October 1, 2007
The Loft Literary Center Names Jocelyn Hale As The New Executive Director
The Loft Literary Center of Minneapolis has named writer and former fondation manager Jocelyn Hale as the new Executive Director. Read more...
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October 1, 2007
The Johns Hopkins University Press Reinstates The Hopkins Review
After a hiatus of half a century, the nation’s oldest university press has announced that it will bring back the Hopkins Review. Read more...
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October 1, 2007
U.S. Appoints Charles Simic Poet Laureate
Succeeding fellow New Englander Donald Hall, Charles Simic was named the country’s 15th Poet Laureate by Librarian of Congress James H. Billington on August 2. Read more...
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September 1, 2007
Booksellers Upset Over National Public Radio’s Amazon Link
Publishers Weekly’s Judith Rosen reports on booksellers’ despair about how NPR sells books. Read more...
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September 1, 2007
Former Booker Prize Winner to write another novel
Arundhati Roy will write her first novel in ten years after a decade of campaigning against India’s dam building program, its possession of nuclear weapons, and its support for George Bush’s “war on terror.” Read more...
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September 1, 2007
Spanish Publisher Decides to Publish the Erotic Poems of a Nobel Laureate
Juan Ramón Jiménez, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature two years before his death in 1956, wrote erotic poems about his “amatory adventures” with several nuns. Read more...
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September 1, 2007
Tabloid Books, Inc. of Santa Monica, California Finds a new way to publish and distribute books
They have started organizing stories in newspaper formatting, printed in a tabloid style. Read more...
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September 1, 2007
Medi-Café: Trans-Maghreb Creative Writing Project
The British Council, in partnership with the University of London in Paris, has sponsored an online creative writing program for students and writers from the Maghreb. Read more...