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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July 24, 2014
David Mitchell Tweets Entire Story from Latest Book
On July 14, Cloud Atlas author David Mitchell began tweeting a short story located in the same fictional world as his upcoming novel, The Bone Clocks. Read more...
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July 24, 2014
An Update on the Significance of Poetry
For the last week or so, critics have been having the by-this-point perfunctory debate on the value and relevance of poetry to the general American public. Read more...
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July 24, 2014
Lost and Little-Seen T.S. Eliot Prose to be Published
Ronald Schuchard, an English professor at Emory University, is compiling a new collection of T.S. Eliot’s prose, to be co-published by Johns Hopkins University Press and Faber and Faber, and released on a volume-by-volume basis. Read more...
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July 21, 2014
Interactive Fiction Sees Resurgence on New Devices
Videogame critic Chris Suellentrop wrote in The New York Times that “text games,” or interactive fiction (think Choose-Your-Own-Adventure books), are seeing a resurgence across various platforms since its inception in the 1980s. Read more...
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July 21, 2014
London’s Poetry Trail Promotes Poetry to Children
Children are finding (or hunting) snippets of poetry purposefully stashed around Granary Square in King’s Cross, an area of Central London known for its Eurostar rail service at St. Pancras International, by the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE). Read more...
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July 21, 2014
Junot Diaz Credits His Literary Success to Dungeons & Dragons
In a New York Times article published last week, writer Junot Diaz said that the now forty-year-old role-playing game, Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), enabled him and a generation of writers to jumpstart their creative lives. Read more...
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July 10, 2014
New Reading Technology: A Ring That Reads to the Blind
The FingerReader is a prototype product developed by scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that, using a small camera, can instantly scan printed words and read them aloud to the user. Read more...
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July 10, 2014
Print's Strengths and Weaknesses: Book Sales from the First Half of 2014
In the first six months of 2014, sales of hardcover and paperback books were up 2%, which is up from the 1% increase seen in 2013’s first half. Read more...
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July 2, 2014
AWP's Dossier Service Coming to an End
It is with regret that we announce that AWP’s decades-old dossier service will be coming to an end in March 2015. Read more...
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June 27, 2014
Wallace Stevens’s Connecticut Home is on the Market
The Hartford, CT, home of modernist poet (and insurance executive) Wallace Stevens, winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, is now on the market with an asking price of $489,900. Read more...
