The Writer’s News
Updated weekly, 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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November 25, 2013
New Funding Opportunity for Graduate Students in Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame.
Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies has partnered with the university’s Creative Writing Program to create a two-year graduate assistantship for one incoming MFA poet. Read more...
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November 25, 2013
Ten Million Dollars Pledged to UNLV’s Black Mountain Institute Literary Programs.
Business leader and Nevada Higher Education Chancellor Emeritus Jim Rogers, and his wife Beverly, have committed to a $10 million donation to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Read more...
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November 25, 2013
Study Reveals Writers’ Concerns Over NSA Surveillance.
A study by the PEN America Center, released November 12, revealed that a significant number of writers surveyed share deep concern over the NSA’s surveillance practices. Read more...
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November 18, 2013
Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing Dies at 94.
Doris Lessing, Nobel laureate and author of The Golden Notebook, died peacefully in her London home at the age of 94. Read more...
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November 18, 2013
The Calliope Author Readings: a Selection of the 20th Century’s Best Writers in Their Own Voice.
The Calliope Author Readings, which began fifty years ago and originally produced in part by Harry and Lynne Sharon Schwartz, is an audio project that recorded some of the 20th century’s greatest authors reading their own work. Read more...
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November 18, 2013
James Patterson to Work with Library of Congress on Youth Literacy.
The Library of Congress named longtime bestseller James Patterson as the Champion of its Young Readers Center. The mission of the Center is to connect young readers with good children’s literature. Read more...
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November 11, 2013
First U.S. Library Vending Machine Opens in Oklahoma.
A twenty-four hour vending machine holding more than four hundred pieces of media was unveiled recently in Norman, Oklahoma at the Irving Recreation Center. Read more...
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November 11, 2013
In Britain Publishers Wax and Wane Amid Growing E-book Market.
As e-book popularity continues to rise, casualties in the publishing world are not limited to U.S. markets alone. Read more...
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November 1, 2013
Boston to Become America’s First Official Literary Cultural District.
The Adams Grant, a two-year $42,000 planning grant appointed by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, was given to a team of book-related organizations to refine its idea of re-creating Boston as a literary cultural district. Read more...
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November 1, 2013
Emily Dickinson Archive Serves as New Virtual Resource for Dickinson Scholars.
The new Emily Dickinson Archive aims to become a virtual resource where scholars can, in one place, access and closely examine materials pertinent to the study of Dickinson’s work in its original handwritten formats. Read more...
