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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April 22, 2015
Library of Congress Digitizes 75 years of Poetry and Literature Recordings
In honor of National Poetry Month, the Library of Congress digitized fifty recordings of poetry and prose from its Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature. Read more...
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April 22, 2015
Bookshop Owners to Build a Live-In Library in Colorado
Since the mid-nineties, two bookshop owners have poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into their vision of an artist’s retreat: a rural, live-in library called the “Rocky Mountain Land Library.” Read more...
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April 16, 2015
Poets & Writers Announces Jackson Poetry Prize Winner
Poets & Writers just announced last week that its ninth annual Jackson Poetry Prize, which comes with a $50,000 cash award and is given to an American poet “of exceptional talent,” went to X.J. Kennedy. Read more...
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April 16, 2015
Southwest Airlines Introduces In-flight Public Readings
Southwest Airlines, known for its impromptu in-flight concerts and fashion shows (and once, a wedding!) has introduced another form of programming: book readings. Read more...
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April 15, 2015
Günter Grass, the Nobel Prize-winning Author of The Tin Drum, Has Died
Günter Grass, a German author whose works explored national guilt and atonement for Germany’s involvement in World War II, died on Monday, April 13. Read more...
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March 31, 2015
Tomas Tranströmer, Nobel Prize-Winning Poet, Has Died
Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer, who won the Nobel Prize in literature in 2011, has died at the age of eighty-three after a short illness, Anna Tillgren, a spokewoman for his publisher Bonniers, said. Read more...
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March 31, 2015
James McKinley, Former AWP President, Has Died
James C. McKinley, former AWP President, New Letters editor, teacher, fiction writer, and journalist, has passed away. Read more...
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March 31, 2015
University of Georgia Press Launches New Literary Nonfiction Series
The University of Georgia Press, which has published AWP’s annual Creative Nonfiction contest winners since 1986, has announced a new literary series, “Crux: The Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction.” Read more...
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March 31, 2015
High School Students to Enter National Finals in Poetry Out Loud Series
Since February, over 365,000 high school students have competed in Poetry Out Loud, an annual national recitation contest created and funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation, now in its tenth year. Read more...
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March 19, 2015
Terry Pratchett, Much-Loved Fantasy Novelist, Has Died
Terry Pratchett, whose more than seventy award-winning fantasy novels captured the imaginations of readers worldwide, died on Thursday at his home near Salisbury, England. Read more...