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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June 4, 2015
Fictioneer Flannery O’Connor to Appear on New Postage Stamp
As part of its thirty-year-old Literary Arts series, the U.S. Postal Service has issued a new Forever Stamp featuring fiction writer Flannery O’Connor, making her the ninth female writer in the series. Read more...
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June 4, 2015
Books Featuring Female Narrators Less Likely to Win Prestigious Prizes, Award Data Shows
Books featuring male narrators have received significantly more prestigious literary prizes over the last fifteen years than those written from the perspective of a female protagonist, author Nicola Griffith discovered. Read more...
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May 29, 2015
Mark Ford Wins Poetry Foundation’s Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism
Mark Ford’s This Dialogue of One: Essays on Poets from John Donne to Joan Murray (Eyewear Publishing) has won the Poetry Foundation’s Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism. Read more...
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May 29, 2015
Chautauqua Prize Goes to Phil Klay’s Redeployment
The Chautauqua Institute honored Redeployment, Phil Klay’s National Book Award-winning story collection, with its annual prize. Read more...
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May 28, 2015
Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, and Others Demand Justice in Response to Murders of Bloggers in Bangladesh
Over 150 writers added their names to a letter that condemns the murder of three secular bloggers in Bangladesh this year. Read more...
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May 28, 2015
Amazon Unburies the Hatchet, Enters Dispute with Penguin Random House UK
Last year, the dispute between Amazon and the publisher Hachette inundated publishing news; now Amazon has gotten into a new fight over contract negotiations with the last of the “Big 5” publishers to sign a new contract: Penguin Random House UK. Read more...
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May 28, 2015
Writers Protest New York Times’ All-White Summer Reading List
Much to the distress of readers and writers everywhere, The New York Times’ long- awaited annual summer reading list last week included books by only white authors. Read more...
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May 28, 2015
House Where F. Scott Fitzgerald Penned The Great Gatsby For Sale
The house where F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby is on the market for $3,888,888. Read more...
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May 21, 2015
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet Franz Wright Has Died
Last Thursday, Franz Wright died in his Waltham, Massachusetts home after a long bout with lung cancer, a representative of Wright’s publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, reported. Read more...
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May 21, 2015
Are Review-Bots in Our Future?
In her review of Rise of the Robots by Martin Ford and Shadow Work by Craig Lambert, New York Times writer Barbara Ehrenreich considers whether robots could take over her book-reviewing job, and do it better. Read more...