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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February 27, 2015
Sponsorships Might Safeguard Bookstores from Brunt of Minimum Wage Increases
Booksellers are worried about the mandatory increases in minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2018. Read more...
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February 27, 2015
Could the End of the Daily Show Augur a Decline in Book Sales?
Is the end of Jon Stewart’s satirical news program, the Daily Show—a television program that allowed publicists to plug their books—a terrible thing for booksellers? Read more...
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February 27, 2015
New Dr. Seuss Book to Arrive in Bookstores this July
Random House Children’s Books will publish a rediscovered Dr. Seuss book called What Pet Should I Get?—the story of a brother and sister searching for a new member of the family, with illustrations included—on July 28. Read more...
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February 16, 2015
Publishers Think Enhanced E-Books May Make a Comeback
Despite the relative unpopularity of enhanced e-books, Chris Kyle’s “enhanced” memoir American Sniper rose to the top of Apple’s iBook bestseller list and remained there for the first three weeks of January. But what does this mean? Read more...
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February 16, 2015
PEN World Voices Festival to Spotlight Africa’s Literati
The PEN World Voices Festival, which is set to take place from May 4-10 in New York, has announced its particular focus on the contemporary literary culture of Africa. Read more...
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February 16, 2015
Patron Attendance Soars at Redesigned Dutch Library
A library in the town of Almere in the Netherlands has figured out how to boost patron attendance to record-high levels. Read more...
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February 16, 2015
Philip Levine, a Poet Whose Works Captured Working-Class Life, Dies
Philip Levine, a former US Poet Laureate whose works portrayed the lives of working-class people—including his own—died on Saturday of pancreatic and liver cancer in Fresno, California. He was eighty-seven. Read more...
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February 11, 2015
Ireland Appoints Anne Enright as its Inaugural Laureate for Fiction
Ireland has announced that Man Booker prize-winning novelist Anne Enright will serve as its first fiction laureate, a post that is the first of its kind. Read more...
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February 11, 2015
Artifacts Relevant to the Writing of Slate/Whiting Second Novels on Display
Objects from the five authors on the Slate/Whiting Second Novel List are on display with an accompanying note about the object’s relevance to the writing of their books at the David Weeks Studio in Tribeca, New York. Read more...
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February 11, 2015
Publisher Grove Atlantic and Electric Literature to Launch Literary Hub at AWP Conference
Independent Publisher Grove Atlantic and Electric Literature have partnered up to launch “a new go-to source for literary culture on the web” called Literary Hub on April 8, 2015 at the AWP Conference. Read more...