Capper's Farmer

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My dream of writing professionally seemed impossible. I was raising three kids on a farm and I was filled with uncertainty. You may feel the way I did. Then I saw an article like this one for the Institute of Children’s Literature, and I wanted to se

Sunday Independent

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Trevor Noah’s “It’s Trevor Noah: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood”, which is a young readers adaptation of his 2016 memoir, has been awarded the Youth Literature Award for 2020. The South African Literary Awards (SALA) celebrates

The Paris Review

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After months of germination, our Spring issue is out today! Shrug off the winter doldrums with the bright splashes of color on our cover, painted by the Lebanese artist Etel Adnan especially for the issue. Look between the covers for a portfolio of h

New American Paintings

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St. Louis, MO albertyowshien@gmail.com / www.albertyowshien.com / @yowshien 2019 Safety Last!, The Bermuda Project, Ferguson, MO Too Good To Be True, LVL3, Chicago, IL 2018 A Demonstration from Fifty Percent, Putnam Center for the Arts, Jacksonville,

Poets & Writers

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CERTAIN BOOKS, IF WE ARE LUCKY TO ENCOUNTER THEM at just the right moment, exert a kind of emotional-intellectual-gravitational force on us. Time slows down; the mind opens up. Maybe this is what we mean when we say a work of art “speaks” to us. I wa

The Writer

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How can we be more culturally sensitive in these challenging times? When is it OK to write about experiences that aren’t our own? These are two of the questions that international faculty members and attendees at the San Miguel Writers’ Conference &

Nashville Lifestyles Magazine

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Beach Read by Emily Henry (Berkley) January Andrews and Augustus Everett couldn’t be more different. January is a bestselling romance author, and Augustus writes highbrow literary fiction. But when they both find themselves with writers’ block and li

Writing Magazine

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Juno Dawson’s Proud, an anthology of stories and poetry by YA LGBTQ+ authors, was named Book of the Year at the Visionary Honours 2020, the UK’s first showbiz awards to celebrate diversity and inclusion in the arts, culture and entertainment industri

Writing Magazine

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In October 2017, a handful of Sussex-based writers began meeting for mutual support and encouragement, writes Danielle Sensier Chalk Circle Writers critiqued each other’s work, exchanged writing tips and with the help of talented guest authors, ran t

The Writer

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When Jeanne McCulloch and Rex Weiner co-founded the Todos Santos Writers Workshop on the Pacific coast of Mexico’s Baja Peninsula seven years ago, they knew they wanted to create a community of writers in a location rich in history and culture. Each

Poets & Writers

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As the founding editor of the Cincinnati Review, Nicola Mason has a strong track record of spotting talented writers early in their careers. Under her leadership the review published the early work of fiction writers Caitlin Horrocks and Jamie Quatro

NPR

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The killing of George Floyd by a police officer has sparked massive protests nationwide. This hour, writer and scholar Clint Smith reflects on this moment, through conversation, letters, and poetry.

Writing Magazine

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Australia’s biggest book prize, the $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature, has been won by Laura Jean McKay for her debut novel, The Animals in That Country. The novel, which McKay began writing seven years ago, is set during a global pandemic, tho

Poets & Writers

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Feedback from readers Kevin Larimer’s “Maybe This Is Enough for Now” (July/August 2020), calmed the ruthless self-critic who kept nagging me for not using quarantine time to write. After reading the Editor’s Note, I recalled the 2019 Kauai Writers Co

Writing Magazine

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Creative Mind Horwich is inviting entries for two nature writing competitions. • Nature and Nurture is for short stories up to 1,500 words and poems up to forty lines on the ‘nature and nurture’ theme. There are prizes of £50, £30 and £20 in each cat

Literary Hub

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It’s very strange to take a full year off of doing something that you’ve been doing for over 15 years, knowing that you’ll return to it but are utterly detached from it in the meantime. For me, that is teaching literature at the college level. Going

Poets & Writers

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Fight of the Century: Writers Ref lect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases (Avid Reader Press, January 2020), edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, honors the centennial of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) with a collection of essays

Writing Magazine

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Lorelei Goulding has won the £1,500 prize for her first-ever writing competition entry in Spread the Word’s Life Writing Prize 2020. Lorelei’s winning piece of life-writing, Birdie, is her first competition entry and first piece of published work. It

Her World Singapore

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Poetry is not dead. You might be relieved to know that this is less about the proclamations of love by 13-year-olds on Instagram or the grievances of dead poets, and more about experimental Italian haute couture and collaborative art. For Valentino’s

Literary Hub

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Renowned poets Jericho Brown (2020 Pulitzer Prize winner) and Nikky Finney (2011 National Book Award winner), formerly student and teacher, reunite to address the current moment of uprising and solidarity in the face of anti-Black violence, in a visc

Literary Hub

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Modern multiracial London, a Caribbean colonial sugar plantation, an undefined afterlife, pre-WWII England, and a dystopian United States—this month’s overlooked fiction will transport you whether you like it, or not. Guy Gunaratne, In Our Mad and F

Literary Hub

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For tens of thousands of years, human beings have been using fictional devices to shape their worlds and communicate with one another. Four thousand years ago they began writing down these stories, and a great flourishing of human achievement began.

Poets & Writers

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THE WRITERS I HAVE THE PRIVILEGE OF TALKING WITH these days have one thing in common: They are all incredibly busy. I believe the most precious gift one could offer a creative person is time: unscheduled, unencumbered, unhurried time. But when I hear

Sunday Tribune

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TODAY is the last of the monthly book fair for the year, with authors from around the country launching and promoting their books. The book fair, now in its third year, is a volunteer programme to support Durban as a Unesco World City of Literature.

Writing Magazine

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George Szirtes and Lucy Ellman have won this year’s James Tait Black Prize. The annual £10,000 prizes are awarded by the University of Edinburgh. George Szirtes’ The Photographer at Sixteen: The Death and Life of a Fighter – a biography of his mother

Popshot Magazine

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6 – Sophie Lay is a creative writing student at the University of Gloucestershire, and has performed her work at the Cheltenham Literature Festival and Cheltenham Poetry Festival. Cultivate was inspired by her suspicion of rejuvenation and gentrifica

North & South

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On 23 August, young poets, poetry royalty, performance poets, rappers and “slammers” will be taking over your town – hoping to beat last year’s Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day record of 150 events across 60 locations nationwide. Check nzbook

VOGUE India

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In this work, the globetrotting journalist and travel writer muses on mortality, following a death in the family, as well as on Japan, his adoptive home country of 25 years. As the seasons shift, the book offers lessons on a culture, from the mundane

NPR

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Ling Ma's debut, Severance, won for fiction. Crown earned Derrick Barnes and Gordon James the young readers' prize. And Rebecca Solnit's essays, Call Them by Their True Names, won nonfiction laurels.

Writing Magazine

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A biannual literary magazine featuring stories and poetry from up and coming writers Shooter is now open to submissions for its Winter 2021 issue after a one issue hiatus of its summer issue. The theme had not been decided at the time of writing so c