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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May 23, 2016
Ed Roberson Receives the 2016 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
The Poetry Foundation announced that Ed Roberson has received the 2016 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, which is awarded for outstanding achievement in the art of poetry. Read more...
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May 23, 2016
Translated Fiction Booms in a Stagnating U.K. Market
In the U.K., translated fiction is selling well in a stagnating general fiction market, according to a new study from Nielsen Book. Read more...
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May 20, 2016
News Roundup
Some things that caught our attention this week. Read more...
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May 19, 2016
Han Kang Wins Man Booker International Prize for The Vegetarian
The Vegetarian, a surreal novel by Han Kang about a woman who believes she is turning into a tree, won the Man Booker International Prize for fiction on May 17. Read more...
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May 18, 2016
The Toast to Close this July
The Toast, a much-beloved blog founded by Nicole Cliffe and Mallory Ortberg in 2013, will be no more. Read more...
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May 17, 2016
Museum to Resurrect Dickinson’s Orchard, Gardens, and Greenhouse
Thirty years after Emily Dickinson’s death in 1886, later owners of her house, known as the Homestead, removed some of its distinguishing features—an orchard, extensive flower and vegetable gardens, and a conservatory. Read more...
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May 13, 2016
Michael S. Harper
Poet Michael S. Harper passed away on May 7. The first poet laureate of Rhode Island, he was professor emeritus of literary arts and English at Brown University, where he taught for 43 years. Read more...
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May 11, 2016
Composer Adapts Classic Literary Work For Music
Dave Malloy, a composer who lives in Brooklyn, adapts classic literary works to music. Read more...
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May 11, 2016
Akhei Togun Wins National Poetry Out Loud Competition
Akhei Togun, a seventeen-year-old senior at Tallwood High School in Virginia Beach, VA, won the 2016 Poetry Out Loud National Champion title at the annual Poetry Out Loud National Recitation Contest last week. Read more...
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May 11, 2016
Announcement on Future AWP Conference Sites
AWP will no longer consider Charlotte and other cities in North Carolina as future sites for AWP’s Annual Conference & Bookfair as long as North Carolina has its so-called “bathroom law” (House Bill 2 “The Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act”) that discriminates against members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) community. Read more...
