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 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
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...
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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
Film of Sir Walter Scott Poem Beamed onto Glencoe Highlands Commemorates the Massacre of Glencoe
It is the 300th anniversary of the 1715 Jacobite uprising, and projected onto the Glencoe highlands scenery is a video of Sir Walter Scott’s little-known poem “On the Massacre of Glencoe.” Read more...
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February 10, 2015
Salman Rushdie to Publish New Novel after Seven Years in September
British Author Salman Rushdie will release his first novel in seven years, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, his publishers reported. Read more...
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February 10, 2015
James Franco Will Direct Film Adaptation of Little-Known Steinbeck Novel
James Franco will direct a film adaptation of John Steinbeck’s lesser-known 1936 novel, In Dubious Battle, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Read more...
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February 10, 2015
ISIS Ransacks Iraqi Libraries, Allegedly Burns Thousands of Books
Islamic State militants reportedly invaded the Central Library of Mosul last month and seized about 2,000 books, leaving behind only Islamic texts. Read more...
