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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September 10, 2015
2015 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows Announced
The Poetry Foundation has announced the recipients of the 2015 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships. Read more...
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September 10, 2015
President Obama to Award National Medals to Authors Annie Dillard, Jhumpa Lahiri, Stephen King, Tobias Wolff, and Others
Authors Annie Dillard, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Larry McMurtry are among the ten recipients who will receive National Humanities Medals from President Barack Obama on Thursday,. Read more...
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September 9, 2015
The 80th Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Winners Announced
Winners of this year’s Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards are Jericho Brown, Marilyn Chin, Richard S. Dunn, Marlon James, and David Brion Davis, who is honored with a lifetime achievement award. Read more...
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September 3, 2015
Japanese Bookseller Takes a Stand Against Amazon, Buys Up 90% of New Haruki Murakami Print Run
When Haruki Murakami’s collection of essays Novelist as a Vocation is released next week, his fans will face difficulty finding it online. Read more...
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September 3, 2015
Working to Make Publishers Aim for True Diversity in Diverse Books
The #WeNeedDiverseBooks campaign as well as publishers in general need to take into account the lack of diversity among diverse books, writes Matthew Salesses on Literary Hub. Read more...
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September 3, 2015
Comic Book Production Surges in the Middle East
Comic books have become increasingly popular in the Middle East lately, according to Al Jazeera. These comics address social problems specific to the countries from which the comics originate. Read more...
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September 3, 2015
Oliver Sacks, Writer of Clinical Tales, Has Died
Oliver Sacks, a neurologist who wrote many books and essays about his patients, humanizing them and their relationships to their various conditions, died on Sunday in his home in Manhattan after receiving a terminal cancer diagnoses earlier this year. Read more...
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September 2, 2015
AWP's Executive Director Apologizes to Laura Mullen
An apology. Read more...
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August 26, 2015
Calling All Bookish Tourists in Scotland: Run a Bookstore for a Week!
If you’ve ever wanted to run a bookstore without strings attached, now you’ve got a chance. Read more...
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August 26, 2015
Poet "Grows" Her Work on Trees in a Seattle Orchard
Piper’s Orchard in northwestern Seattle—which grows apples, cherries, hazelnuts, pears, and walnuts—isn’t your average orchard. Read more...