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, 2006
Oregon Literary Fellowships Recipients Announced
Literary Arts is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2005 Oregon Literary Fellowships to writers and to publishers. Read more...
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March 1, 2006
Ashland Poetry Press Announces Prize Winners
Richard Snyder Publication Prize: Christine Gelineau, of Windsor, New York, won the 2004 Richard Snyder Publication Prize for Remorseless Loyalty. Read more...
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March 1, 2006
Newbery and Caldecott Award Winners Announced
According to an article in Publisher’s Weekly, Lynne Rae Perkins has won the 2005 John Newbery Medal for her novel Criss Cross (Greenwillow), and Chris Raschka won the 2005 Randolph Caldecott Medal for The Hello, Goodbye Window, written by Norton Juster (Hyperion/di Capua). Read more...
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March 1, 2006
Winner of the Italo Calvino Prize Announced
The University of Louisville is happy to announce that the first winner of the annual Italo Calvino Prize in Fabulist Fiction is Kenneth Calhoun of Durham, North Carolina. Read more...
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March 1, 2006
Winner of the 2005 Narrative Prize Announced
Pia Z. Ehrhardt of New Orleans won the 2005 Narrative Prize for her short story “Famous Fathers.” Read more...
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March 1, 2006
Betty Friedan Dies at 85
On February 5, 2006, the New York Times reported the death of Betty Friedan, whose book, The Feminine Mystique, was said to have ignited the contemporary women's movement in 1963 Read more...
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March 1, 2006
AWP Award Winner is Awarded Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book
An international judging panel, meeting in Kampala, Uganda, awarded the 2006 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best First Book Award to Doreen Baingana’s Tropical Fish: Stories out of Entebbe (University Of Massachusetts Press) Read more...
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March 1, 2006
Sam Hamill Joins Curbstone Press
Curbstone Press is pleased to announce that Sam Hamill, founding editor of Copper Canyon Press and an internationally known poet, translator, and activist, has joined Curbstone Press as a contributing editor. Read more...
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March 1, 2006
“Political Rigidity in Academe Undermines Federal Support for Higher Education.”
According to an article by this title in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Senator Lamar Alexander stated that “the biggest obstacle to increased federal support for higher education is left-wing political bias on college faculties.” Read more...
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March 1, 2006
Wendy Wasserstein, Playwright, Died.
According to a news briefing from the Associated Press, playwright Wendy Wasserstein died of cancer this January at the age of fifty-five. Read more...