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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August 22, 2014
The State of the AWP Website Address
Since launching our redesigned website two years ago today, we continue to expand content and features. Read more...
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August 21, 2014
Can Robo-readers Read and Edit Better than Humans?
Mark. D. Shermis, dean of the College of Education at the University of Akron, who led a study comparing human graders to software designed to score student essays, said this past April that robo-graders built to evaluate student writing may be more reliable than human graders. Read more...
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August 21, 2014
“Bro-hug,” “Adorbs,” and “Cray” Added to Online Oxford Dictionary
A new batch of words has been added to the online Oxford Dictionary in its quarterly update, including terms that have taken popular culture by storm, such as bro-hug, adorbs, cray, amazeballs, baller, and SMH, an abbreviation for “shaking my head.” Read more...
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August 21, 2014
Purdue University and Amazon Team Up to Sell Textbooks
Purdue University and Amazon have teamed up to offer textbooks at a discounted price of up to thirty percent off, which Mitch Daniels, president of Purdue University, said “is another step in Purdue’s efforts to make a college education more affordable for our students.” Read more...
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August 21, 2014
National Endowment Announces Literary Translation Fellowships
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announced last week that it awarded $300,000 in grants to twenty translators in an effort to support the literary translation of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry, and to introduce readers to more “global experiences, deep insights,” and “surprise connections.” Read more...
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August 21, 2014
Joy Harjo to Receive First Black Earth Institute Award
Joy Harjo, renowned poet of Muskogee Creek and Canadian ancestry, received the first Black Earth Institute (BEI) Award for her work towards illuminating the Native American experience through both poetry and music. Read more...
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August 14, 2014
Thailand Tourists Warned Not to Carry George Orwell’s 1984
According to The Telegraph, an in-flight magazine of Philippine Airlines contains a warning for passengers not to carry a copy of George Orwell’s dystopian novel, 1984, in Thailand. Read more...
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August 14, 2014
New Saturday Bookfair Policy for #AWP15 Minneapolis
Before sales opened for the #AWP15 bookfair, AWP notified previous exhibitors that we can no longer make the bookfair free and open to the public on the Saturday of our conference. Read more...
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August 14, 2014
Barnes & Noble and Google Unite for Same-Day Delivery
When book sales giant Amazon announced the expansion of its same-day delivery service to six new U.S. cities last Wednesday (totaling ten locations), Barnes & Noble swiftly partnered with Google’s new shopping service, Google Shopping, to also offer same-day delivery in three cities. Read more...
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August 14, 2014
Joe David Bellamy, Endearing Author, Teacher, and Champion of Literature Has Died
Joe David Bellamy, a former president of the AWP Board of Directors and a prolific writer of fiction, articles, essays, poetry, and reviews, died last week. Read more...
