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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June 27, 2014
Ewan McGregor to Star in Film Version of American Pastoral by Philip Roth
Cast in the role of Seymour "Swede" Levov, Ewan McGregor will star in an upcoming film adaption of Philip Roth's 1997 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, American Pastoral. Read more...
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June 27, 2014
Raymond Chandler Gets a Star in Hollywood
Long-celebrated noir-author Raymond Chandler, former president of the Mystery Writers of America who penned The Big Sleep and six other novels, received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (to be placed in 2015). Read more...
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June 20, 2014
Amy Stolls Named NEA’s New Director of Literature
On June 18th, the National Endowment for the Arts announced that Amy Stolls will be its new director of literature, a position she held as acting-director since May of last year. Read more...
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June 20, 2014
Twenty Poems by Pablo Neruda Discovered in Chile
In what his Spanish publisher, Seix Barral, called “a literary event of universal importance… the biggest find in Spanish literature in recent years,” a group of over twenty poems by the late Chilean Nobel Laureate, Pablo Neruda, were recently discovered among boxes of the author’s papers. Read more...
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June 16, 2014
Charles Wright is the Next U.S. Poet Laureate
Appointed in mid-June by the Library of Congress, Charles Wright, widely considered one of America’s greatest living poets and recipient of numerous honors, will become the twentieth “Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry.” Read more...
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June 9, 2014
Eimear McBride Wins the 2014 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction
The 2014 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, formerly known as the Orange Prize, was awarded to first-time novelist Eimear McBride for A Girl is a Half-formed Thing, published by Galley Beggar Press. Read more...
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June 9, 2014
Anne Carson, Brenda Hillman Win the 2014 Griffin Poetry Prize
Conferred in Toronto on June 5, the 2014 International and Canadian winners of Canada’s Griffin Poetry Prize are, respectively, Brenda Hillman, for her collection Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire, and Anne Carson, for Red Doc>, a follow-up-of-sorts to her 1998 novel-in-verse Autobiography of Red. Read more...
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June 9, 2014
Major Magazine Distributor Goes Under
Amid waning newsstand sales and falling print readerships of periodical publications, Source Interlink Distribution announced last week it would end “substantially all” of its operations, which would entail the laying off of approximately 6,000 employees (including 1,200 full-time employees). Read more...
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June 4, 2014
The New Technology That Can Double or Triple Your Reading Speed
In a time when the number of non-book readers has tripled since the ’70s, a startup company hopes to revolutionize the way readers interact with books. Read more...
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June 4, 2014
Reality TV Show Awards Poet Over One Million Dollars
In the United Arab Emirates, Saif Al Mansouri won the sixth season of reality TV show Million’s Poet and was awarded the prize of nearly $1.4 million. Read more...
