While other future novelists were discussing iambic pentameter and leitmotifs, Gina Chen immersed herself in computer science. Continue reading at 'The New York Times'
[ The New York Times | 2022-08-25 09:00:11 UTC ]
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Publishers are hopeful about the chance to finally turn their Facebook videos into a revenue stream, but creative challenges await them. Ads could bring a welcome source of revenue, but videos will have to be edited with breaks in mind. And most online video that's out there now isn't good... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2017-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Novelist and games designer Naomi Alderman is offering early-career writers traineeships to write for Zombies, Run!, a smartphone fitness game. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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London mayor Sadiq Khan has vowed he will stand with the creative industries "every step of the way" to ensure their interests are "defended" during the upcoming Brexit negotiations. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-01-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In 2012, a month after the publication of her memoir, Wild, Cheryl Strayed was on a book tour, soaking up the wonder of her first big success as an author, when her husband texted her to say that their rent check had bounced. “We couldn’t complain to anyone,” Strayed told Manjula Martin, editor... Continue reading at Slate
[ Slate | 2017-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Alastair Campbell is writing a novel in collaboration with former Burnley footballer and chief executive Paul Fletcher. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Writers' Centre Norwich has been given the go ahead to develop the city's "historic" Dragon Hall, parts of which date to circa 1430, into the National Centre for Writing. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-12-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New Writing North, in partnership with Channel 4 and Northumbria University, is to offer three aspiring writers the chance to work with independent production company Lime Pictures on mentoring and developmental schemes. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-12-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Google could be facing a fine up to $4bn after being sued for allegedly not allowing employees to post opinions about the company or write novels without getting their employer to sign off on the final draft. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-12-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Boris Johnson has been accused of breaching the ministerial code of conduct by allegedly promoting his book The Churchill Factor (Hodder) during a diplomatic trip to Serbia last month. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-12-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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How do writers and publishers handle charged topics like climate change? Environmentalist Jamie Clarke makes a case for including more perspectives, both for the sake of book sales and the planet. The post Can Better Writing Make Climate Change Less Polarizing? appeared first on Publishing... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2016-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pan Macmillan has pledged £50,000 to Creative Access and undertaken to double its intake of fully funded Creative Access interns in a bid to help the agency continue its work to increase diversity in the creative industries. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Lenovo plans to have three flavors of the Yoga Book—its innovative typing, writing, and drawing mash-up of a computer—in 2017. The company’s Android and Chrome chief, Jeff Meredith, recently confirmed to Laptop Magazine that a Chrome OS version would arrive next year after the website Chrome... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2016-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The future of diversity charity Creative Access, which has placed more than 100 interns from ethnic minority backgrounds in companies across the trade, is in jeopardy after the government pulled more than £2m worth of funding. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-12-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Travel writers, adventurers, novelists and broadcasters join retailers and editors in the judging panels for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-12-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Writers Marina Benjamin and Joanna Walsh, author/illustrator Oliver Kugler and poet Jack Underwood are on the shortlist for a new prize for creative non-fiction writing. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Stine is achieving a "lifelong dream" by writing the comics, a five-issue series that debuts in February and will feature plenty of interdimensional weirdness. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Writer development organisation Spread the Word is launching a new nationwide Life Writing Prize, thanks to a donation from writer Joanna Munro and partnership support from Goldsmiths Writers’ Centre, the Royal Society of Literature and Arvon. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New nonfiction works offer social insight and personal catharsis in the wake of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s 'Between the World and Me.' Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-11-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The shortlists for poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy's Manchester Writing Competition, comprising the Manchester Fiction Prize and the Manchester Poetry Prize, worth £10,000 apiece, have been revealed. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon is launching a nationwide writing competition in search of a modern day version of popular poem "Twas Night Before Christmas". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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