Featured This Month
In the Spotlight: Kwoya Fagin Maples
Creative Writing Faculty, Alabama School of Fine Arts
Writer's Notebook: "AWP’s 2017–2018 Report on the Academic Job Market"
Jason Gray | December 2018
Podcast: Episode 158: Amplifying Unheard Voices
Washington, DC 2017
The Writer's Chronicle Archives: "What Happens If We Win"
Bruce Cutler | May 1986
The Writer's News
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January 18, 2019
AWP Staff Recommends Writing Resources for the New Year
Don’t give up on your New Year’s resolution yet, whether it’s to complete the short story on your desk or to start your first manuscript.
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January 18, 2019
Moveable Type: Anomaly
A literary venue worth checking out...
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January 18, 2019
Mary Oliver, 1935–2019
The beloved poet Mary Oliver passed away at her home in Florida on Thursday, January 17 from lymphoma.
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January 17, 2019
Francine du Plessix Gray, 1930–2019
Journalist, novelist, memoirist, and biographer Francine du Plessix Gray died on Sunday, January 13 in New York City .
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January 10, 2019
Academy of American Poets Names Joy Harjo & Natasha Trethewey New Chancellors
The Academy of American Poets announced in a press release that poets Joy Harjo and Natasha Trethewey will become its newest Chancellors.
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Writer's Chronicle
Calendar
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Jan 19
15th Annual Eckerd College Writers' Conference: Writers in Paradise
8-day writing conference of workshops, craft talks, panels, readings, and writing time in St. Petersburg, Florida. January 19-26, 2019. Located on the beautiful waterfront campus of Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida, this writers’ conference feat
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Jan 21
15th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival
Poetry workshops for qualified writers of poetry are limited to 12 participants and 3 auditors. Workshops are 16 total hours over six days. Individual manuscript conferences are also available.
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Jan 24
Novel in a Year: Revise and Launch
Novel in a Year: Revise and Launch is the ideal class for any writer who is close to completing a novel. Students will join a writing cohort, learn about the revision and publication process, workshop the first 40 pages of their book, polish their synopsi
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Jan 26
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Jan 27
A Sense of Place: Exploring New Mexico Through Words
See how writing is grounded in a sense of place by reading the writers of New Mexico and then exploring the territory and places they have written about.
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Feb 02
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Feb 09
Centauri Arts - Creative Writing Retreat
An annual retreat for writers of all levels, attending solo or with family or friends. Our writing retreat is located at a gorgeous rain forest lodge in Costa Rica.
