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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January 17, 2019
Francine du Plessix Gray, 1930–2019
Journalist, novelist, memoirist, and biographer Francine du Plessix Gray died on Sunday, January 13 in New York City . Read more...
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January 10, 2019
Academy of American Poets Names Joy Harjo & Natasha Trethewey New Chancellors
The Academy of American Poets announced in a press release that poets Joy Harjo and Natasha Trethewey will become its newest Chancellors. Read more...
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January 9, 2019
What’s Your Excuse?
The new year has begun. I’m already a long-term gym addict, and a “lifetime” member of Weight Watchers (now renamed “WW”). So, what’s there to focus on for a New Year’s resolution? Oh yes—writing that next book. Read more...
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January 9, 2019
Survey Finds Major Decrease in Literary Authors’ Earnings
In 2018, the Authors Guild conducted the largest survey of author earnings in history, recording information from over 5,000 published American writers. Read more...
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January 7, 2019
Classic Works Enter the Public Domain
On January 1, 2019, thousands of classic books—many by notable authors including Marcel Proust, Willa Cather, D.H. Lawrence, Agatha Christie, Katherine Mansfield, Robert Frost, and Wallace Stevens—entered the public domain after a 1998 law extending copyright protections by twenty years ran out. Read more...
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January 4, 2019
Cracking Down on Discrimination in Portland
AWP has received correspondence recently from a number of our members who expressed their deep disapproval, outrage, indignation, and consternation regarding an incident of blatantly racially-based discrimination directed at an African-American hotel guest that took place in late December at the DoubleTree Hotel in Portland, Oregon. Read more...
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January 2, 2019
#AWP19 Update: DoubleTree Incident & Accommodations
AWP is very concerned about a recent situation at the DoubleTree Hotel in Portland, Oregon. Read more...
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December 17, 2018
Tin House Magazine to Publish Final Issue
On Thursday, December 13, Tin House publisher and editor in chief Win McCormack announced that the literary journal will close in June of 2019. Read more...
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December 10, 2018
Human Rights Day: A Day Worth Remembrance & Recommitment
Seventy years ago today the nations of the world reached a milestone in moral progress, yet from the vantage point of today’s deeply divided world it’s nearly unimaginable that such a consensus would ever have been achieved. Read more...
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December 7, 2018
T Magazine Names ‘Black Male Writers of Our Time’
T: The New York Times Style Magazine named and photographed thirty-two Black poets, novelists, short story writers, and playwrights. Read more...
