#literary community

Publishing news tagged with #literary community

Page 2 of 3 pages


Boubacar Boris Diop Wins Prestigious 2022 Neustadt International Prize for Literature

News and Events (c) Rama, Cc-by-sa-2.0-fr NORMAN, OKLA. – World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, announced late Tuesday evening that Boubacar Boris Diop is the 27th... Continue reading at 'World Literature Today'

[ World Literature Today | 2021-10-26 21:56:54 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #20th century #highly respected #american nobel #swedish academy #annual selection #external pressure #international prizes #generous endowment #neustadt family #novelists #literary award #literary community #man booker international prize #first novel


Cynthia Leitich Smith to Headline 2021 Neustadt Lit Fest

News and Events World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, will host the 2021 Neustadt Lit Festival on Zoom from Oct. 25–27. The festival features numerous panels exploring the... Continue reading at 'World Literature Today'

[ World Literature Today | 2021-10-11 18:55:28 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #nsk prize #racial tensions #highly respected #esteemed panel #authors selects #literary merit #nsk winners #silver medallion #literary community #award-winning author #harpercollins #literature award #publishers weekly


Stories That Wrestle With Black Girls’ Coming of Age

The flash fiction literary community is like an extended family. If you are a writer and reader of flash, it is in all likelihood that your inner circle of literary peeps are other flash fiction folks or, you at least, know of one another. Six degrees is more like one or two in this community.... Continue reading at 'Electric Literature'

[ Electric Literature | 2021-09-17 11:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #post stories #black girls #extended family #electric literature #literary community


What the Bolinas Poets Built

Along the coast of California, a vibrant literary community came together, but its many styles could not be defined together. Continue reading at 'New Yorker'

[ New Yorker | 2021-05-24 10:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #literary community


Pandemic Survey Finds NYC Writers, Lit Organizations Face Economic Loss

A new survey examining the impact of the pandemic on New York City’s literary community found that 75% of the city’s literary organizations reported some financial loss over the last year, with some organizations reporting losses as high as $100,000. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-05-12 04:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #literary community


Opening the Doorways of Recognition for Native People: A Conversation with Joy Harjo, by Crystal AC Salas

Interviews Photo © Matika Wilbur For the 44th Annual Writers Week, the University of California, Riverside Department of Creative Writing, in partnership with the LA Review of Books, honored three US Poets Laureate with Lifetime Achievement... Continue reading at 'World Literature Today'

[ World Literature Today | 2021-04-21 15:11:24 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #recent events #literary community #indian literature #anthology #book award


Pacing the Lion’s Path in Cuba: A Conversation with Carlos Manuel Álvarez, by Anderson Tepper

Interviews Carlos Manuel Álvarez’s debut novel, The Fallen—a withering portrait of a Cuban family with conflicting visions of their country and their roles within it—was published in June 2020 and has helped establish Álvarez as one of the leading... Continue reading at 'World Literature Today'

[ World Literature Today | 2021-03-29 21:52:25 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #literary community #publishing houses


Hundreds in publishing sign letter objecting to book deals for the Trump administration

More than 250 members of the literary community signed a letter this week urging publishers not to sign book deals with anyone in the Trump administration. Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Times'

[ Los Angeles Times | 2021-01-15 19:12:33 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #book deals #trump administration #literary community


“Lusting after a Tart of Peacock Tongues”: A Conversation with Publisher Barbara Epler, by Veronica Esposito

Interviews Barbara Epler started working at New Directions after graduating from college in 1984, and she has been its president and publisher since 2011. In 2015 Poets & Writers awarded Epler their Editor’s Prize, and in 2016 Words Without Borders... Continue reading at 'World Literature Today'

[ World Literature Today | 2021-01-11 14:39:22 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #widely recognized #jenny erpenbeck #daša drndić #literary community #publishing houses #national book award


In Jamaica, Rebel Women Lit Launches the Caribbean Readers’ Awards

Book club and literary community Rebel Women Lit aims to ‘showcase the amazing range’ of Caribbean literature with the newly launched Caribbean Readers' Awards. The post In Jamaica, Rebel Women Lit Launches the Caribbean Readers’ Awards appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at 'Publishing Perspectives'

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2020-12-18 19:25:33 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #awards appeared #literary community #book club


Cynthia Leitich Smith Named Winner of the 2021 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature

News and Events Photo by Christopher T. Assaf World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, today announced Cynthia Leitich Smith as the winner of the 2021 NSK Neustadt Prize... Continue reading at 'World Literature Today'

[ World Literature Today | 2020-10-20 23:56:14 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #kathy neustadt #neustadt family #held virtually #lit fest #highly respected #esteemed panel #authors selects #literary merit #nsk winners #silver medallion #literary community #award-winning author #harpercollins #literature award #publishers weekly


Famed Neustadt Lit Fest for 2020 Goes 100% Online

News and Events World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, announced today that the 2020 Neustadt Lit Festival will be held entirely online from Oct. 19-21. The festival will... Continue reading at 'World Literature Today'

[ World Literature Today | 2020-09-10 12:52:47 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #kapka kassabova #narrative nonfiction #native bulgarian #highly respected #american nobel #swedish academy #annual selection #international prizes #generous endowment #neustadt family #literary award #literary community #anthology


Writers Against Trump wants to mobilize the literary community in advance of the election.

With voter registration deadlines approaching and misinformation around voter fraud spreading, a newly-formed coalition of writers is volunteering their time to defeat Donald Trump in the presidential election this fall. The group, Writers Against Trump—whose initial members include Paul Auster,... Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

[ Literrary Hub | 2020-08-25 17:07:21 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #presidential election #siri hustvedt #literary community


This year’s National Book Awards Ceremony will be held online.

The National Book Foundation has announced that this year’s National Book Awards events—including the 71st annual ceremony—will be held digitally, due to the ongoing, not-even-remotely-controlled, coronavirus pandemic. Lisa Lucas, the National Book Foundation’s Executive Director, said of the... Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

[ Literrary Hub | 2020-07-10 14:22:53 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #held online #coronavirus pandemic #lisa lucas #literary community #national book foundation


Lit Hub Weekly: March 16 – 20, 2020

THESE TIMES: Lit Hub editor Jonny Diamond on literary community in a time of global pandemic • Ysabelle Cheung on trying to write in Hong Kong during the rise of the novel coronavirus • Italian editor Sara Reggiani on life in lock-down • How to support your local bookstores during the... Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

[ Literrary Hub | 2020-03-21 11:30:33 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #hong kong #local bookstores #coronavirus pandemic #literary community


Lit Hub Daily: March 17, 2020

THESE TIMES: How to support your local bookstores during the coronavirus pandemic · What China’s literary community is reading during the pandemic · The first lines of 10 classic novels rewritten for social distancing · Can’t decide what to read? Tell us your favorites and we’ll recommend a... Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

[ Literrary Hub | 2020-03-17 10:30:26 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #coronavirus pandemic #local bookstores #social distancing #ll recommend #lit hub #literary community


What China’s Literary Community is Reading During the Coronavirus Pandemic

I had a fight with my mother the other day. In the past we had argued on many things but never politics, because we’d seldom talked about it. The video call, which started with her asking me about the outbreak in the US, ended up opening my eyes to the chasm between me and the […] Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

[ Literrary Hub | 2020-03-17 08:49:21 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #coronavirus pandemic #video call #literary community


Editor’s Note: Literary Community in a Time of Global Pandemic

We are at the beginning of a frightening and difficult time in America. Though we glimpse—in the overflowing hospitals of Milan, the shuttered plazas of Madrid—that which may come to pass, it is impossible to know just how hard hit the United States will be by the novel coronavirus. This nation... Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

[ Literrary Hub | 2020-03-16 14:00:35 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #difficult time #global pandemic #hard hit #literary community


West Coast Literary Events Go Online

With book tours, festivals, conferences, and other literary events being canceled around the world due to COVID-19 concerns, the tech-friendly west coast literary community has begun creating digital events to keep authors and readers connected during the coming weeks of social distancing and... Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-03-16 04:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #book tours #literary events #covid-19 concerns #coming weeks #social distancing #literary community


On Shrinking Linguistic Biodiversity and Embracing the Fragmentary: A Conversation with Ottilie Mulzet

Interviews Veronica Esposito Ottilie Mulzet is the principal English-language translator of Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, winner of numerous international honors. Together, they received the 2019 National Book Award in Translation for Mulzet’s... Continue reading at 'World Literature Today'

[ World Literature Today | 2020-02-20 14:05:36 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #great deal #paying attention #ripple effects #global south #tilted axis #literary community #national book award