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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February 1, 2005
2005 May Swenson Poetry Award Winner Announced.
Utah State University Press announces that Frances Brent’s The Beautiful Lesson of the I has been selected winner of the 2005 May Swenson Poetry Award. Read more...
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February 1, 2005
Lyon College Announces the Winner of its 2004 Visiting Fellowship in Creative Writing.
Poet Peter Abbs of Eastbourne, England, won the 2004 Visiting Fellowship in Creative Writing. Read more...
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February 1, 2005
UC Davis Extension Announces The Tomales Bay Writers Workshop
The Tomales Bay Writers Workshop, hosted by the University of California, Davis’ Creative Writing Program, UC Davis Extension, will bring aspiring writers into a close community with award-winning, nationally-known poets and writers, as well as respected editors and agents for five days of intensive conversation about craft. Read more...
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February 1, 2005
Nelson Smith Wins 2004 Margolis Award.
Nelson Smith, essayist and freelance writer, is the recipient of the 2004 Richard J. Margolis Award, given annually to a promising nonfiction writer whose work combines warmth, humor, wisdom, and concern with social justice. Read more...
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February 1, 2005
Twenty-fifth Drue Heinz Literature Prize Awarded to New Jersey Author.
David Ebenbach has been named the twenty-fifth winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, one of the nation’s most prestigious awards for a book of short stories. Read more...
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February 1, 2005
Robert McGovern Publication Prize Winners Announced.
The Ashland Poetry Press is pleased to announce that A.V. Christie and Jerry Harp have won the 2004 Robert McGovern Publication Prize. Read more...
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February 1, 2005
12 Short Stories and Their Making Supplies an Innovative Approach to Contemporary Craft.
12 Short Stories and Their Making (Persea Books), edited with an introduction by Paul Mandelbaum, is an englightening resource for writers and readers alike. Read more...
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March 1, 2000
Creative Writing & Its Discontents
Since the 1980s, criticisms of writing workshops and programs have become an occasional feature in glossy magazines, newspapers, literary magazines, academic journals, and books of literary criticism. Meanwhile, in the fiefdoms of academe, literary scholars, theorists, and writers often compete for the same awards, grants, endowed chairs, and budget lines; and that competition compels each camp to trivialize the other. In both the national and local commentary on writing programs, the misrepresentations can be lurid. Read more...