Restored Edition of The Duke’s Children, EFG Short Story Prize Shortlist, and More

Every day Poets & Writers Magazine scans the headlines—from publishing reports to academic announcements to literary dispatches—for all the news that creative writers need to know. Here are today's stories:

This month, the Folio Society will publish a “restored” edition of Anthony Trollope’s 1880 novel The Duke’s Children. Researchers have worked for a decade to reinstate the sixty-five thousand words Trollope cut from the novel when it was first published. The publication of the unabridged edition will mark the bicentenary of Trollope’s birth. (Guardian)

“Graham is to post-1980 poetry what Bob Dylan is to post-1960 rock: She changed her art form, moved it forward, made it able to absorb and express more than it could before. It permanently bears her mark.” At the New York Times, Craig Morgan Teicher reviews Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Jorie Graham’s new poetry collection, From the New World: Poems 1976­–2014.

The shortlist for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Prize, which was announced yesterday, includes five women writers. In the prize’s six-year history, a woman author has yet to win. The Sunday Times EFG prize is the world’s largest award given for a single short story. The winner, who will receive thirty thousand pounds, will be announced on April 24. (Booktrade)

In more prize news, Publishers Weekly has announced the shortlists for its 2015 Bookstore and Sales Rep of the Year Awards, which “highlight singular achievements in the bookselling industry.” The winners will be announced in early April.

“If you look for allusions and images that have some durability, your choices will stabilize your piece of writing. Don’t assume that everyone on earth has seen every movie you have seen.” At the New Yorker, John McPhee offers advice regarding obscure references in writing.

At the Globe & Mail, Mark Medley examines the particular challenges faced by Canadian nonfiction writers.

Meanwhile, at the Telegraph, nonfiction writer Eula Biss talks about her book On Immunity: An Inoculation. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg recently selected Biss’s essay collection for his Facebook book club.