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 2, 2016
Penguin Random House Gifts Staff Discounted Membership to PEN America
Penguin Random House (PRH) has offered its staff members an early holiday gift that underscores its mission to support freedom of expression: a membership to PEN America for half the rate. Read more...
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December 1, 2016
Book Sales Down in Post-Election Weeks
November is the cruelest month, breeding misery for booksellers. Read more...
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November 30, 2016
New “Writers Resist” Movement to Highlight Social Justice Issues Across the Country
A new movement has grown in the days following the recent election. Read more...
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November 30, 2016
Authors Michael Chabon, Teju Cole, and Others Urge President Obama to Pardon Edward Snowden
President Barack Obama received an open letter signed by thirty-one authors last week asking him to pardon Edward Snowden, the former US government contractor on the run for leaking National Security Agency documents to three journalists. Read more...
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November 28, 2016
Germany Saves Thomas Mann’s California Home from a Possible Teardown
The late Nobel prize-winning author Thomas Mann’s house in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles went on the market for an asking price of $15 million in August, prompting worry among authors and artists that it was a “teardown” sale. Read more...
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November 22, 2016
Google Honors Native American Author James Welch in "Google Doodle"
Over the weekend, Google featured a drawing of Native American author James Welch on its homepage to celebrate what would have been Welch’s seventy-sixth birthday. Read more...
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November 22, 2016
USC Dornsife Department of English Releases Statement of Values
In the wake of violence and hate speech after the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States, the USC Dornsife Department of English, an AWP member program and sponsor of the 2017 Conference & Bookfair, released a statement of values concerning issues of social justice. Read more...
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November 22, 2016
William Trevor, 1928–2016
The Irish short story writer and novelist, William Trevor, passed away at the age of eighty-eight, reports his publisher, Penguin Random House Ireland. Read more...
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November 21, 2016
Oxford Dictionaries’ Word of the Year is... “Post-Truth”
The Oxford Dictionaries decided to name “post-truth” as its 2016 Word of the Year—an adjective defined as “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.” Read more...
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November 21, 2016
Hundreds of Children’s Book Authors and Illustrators Commit to Amplifying Young Voices
Over four hundred children’s book authors and illustrators have added their signatures to a statement declaring their commitment to creating books that “plant seeds of empathy, fairness, and empowerment through words and pictures.” Read more...
