Marie Ponsot Wins Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
The Poetry Foundation has announced that poet and translator Marie Ponsot will receive the 2013 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, one of the most prestigious prizes given to American poets. Given for lifetime...
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The author talks about her memoir, Wave (Knopf), in which she writes about losing her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the devastating tsunami that struck Southeast Asia in 2004.Video...
View ArticleFootnote It
Write a micro essay of 1,000 words in which you incorporate a series of footnotes. Strive to create the footnotes so that they both propel the essay forward and layer it with meaning.
View ArticleThirty Things Every Author Should Know About Publishing, E-books as the New...
Bryanna Tidmarsh Author Matt Haig shares the thirty things he learned about publishing since landing his first book deal, Salon’s Laura Miller on how e-books can help authors gain attention from...
View ArticleOwen King
The author (and, yes, son of Stephen King) talks about the process of writing his first novel, Double Feature (Scribner, 2013), about a young man coming to terms with his life in the process and...
View ArticleChinua Achebe
The acclaimed Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe died earlier today at the age of eighty-two. A statement released on behalf of his family described the author as one of the great literary voices of his...
View ArticleChinua Achebe Dies at Eighty-Two, Measuring the Emotional Language in Books,...
Bryanna Tidmarsh Renowned Nigerian author Chinua Achebe dies at eighty-two; Oscar Wilde letter advises writers not to expect their calling to pay the bills; scientific study finds U.S. books to be...
View ArticleA Literary Odyssey and It's Not Even April is Poetry Month
P&W-funded Regie Cabico is the coeditor, with poet and novelist Brittany Fonte, of the recently published anthology of queer poetry and spoken word, Flicker and Spark (Lowbrow Press). His own work...
View ArticleNew $60,000 Folio Prize Launched
Last week, during a ceremony at the British Library in London, the Folio Society announced the launch of a new literature prize worth forty thousand pounds, or roughly sixty thousand dollars. read more
View ArticleThe Costly Standoff Between B&N and Simon & Schuster, A Revolution in Chinese...
Bryanna Tidmarsh Publishers watch the standoff between Barnes & Noble and Simon & Schuster; the Economist looks at a revolution in Chinese literature as a result of online writing; a new...
View ArticleShort Fiction Contest Deadline Approaches
The Northern Colorado Writers (NCW) short fiction contest, which offers a grand prize of one thousand dollars and publication in the NCW anthology, is given annually for a short story. The deadline is...
View ArticleThe Heroin Chronicles
The third installment of Akashic's Drug Chronicles series, The Heroin Chronicles, edited by Jerry Stahl, includes stories by Eric Bogosian, Lydia Lunch, Nathan Larson, Ava Stander, and many others. In...
View ArticleMake a Collage
Make a collage inspired by a working draft of one of your poems, using images from books, photographs, magazines, newspapers, and drawings. You may incorporate words as well. Let the transformation of...
View ArticleRandom House’s Record Profits, Teenage Photos of Famous Authors, and More
Bryanna Tidmarsh Random House profits soar with Fifty Shades trilogy; Flavorwire features photos of famous authors as teenagers; Penguin releases a new collection of Marcel Proust’s poetry; and other...
View ArticleOwen King
The author (and, yes, son of Stephen King) talks about the process of writing his first novel, Double Feature (Scribner, 2013), about a young man coming to terms with his life in the process and...
View ArticleThe Costly Standoff Between B&N and Simon & Schuster, A Revolution in Chinese...
Bryanna Tidmarsh Publishers watch the standoff between Barnes & Noble and Simon & Schuster; the Economist looks at a revolution in Chinese literature as a result of online writing; a new...
View ArticleShort Fiction Contest Deadline Approaches
The Northern Colorado Writers (NCW) short fiction contest, which offers a grand prize of one thousand dollars and publication in the NCW anthology, is given annually for a short story. The deadline is...
View ArticleThe Heroin Chronicles
The third installment of Akashic's Drug Chronicles series, The Heroin Chronicles, edited by Jerry Stahl, includes stories by Eric Bogosian, Lydia Lunch, Nathan Larson, Ava Stander, and many others. In...
View ArticleMake a Collage
Make a collage inspired by a working draft of one of your poems, using images from books, photographs, magazines, newspapers, and drawings. You may incorporate words as well. Let the transformation of...
View ArticleRandom House’s Record Profits, Teenage Photos of Famous Authors, and More
Bryanna Tidmarsh Random House profits soar with Fifty Shades trilogy; Flavorwire features photos of famous authors as teenagers; Penguin releases a new collection of Marcel Proust’s poetry; and other...
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