News and Events The prize-winning poster design by OU student Marley Smith NORMAN, OKLA. (Friday, September 13, 2019) – University of Oklahoma students Marley Smith, Abby Merz, and Sadie Gorham have been awarded first, second, and third place, respectively, as this year’s winners of the annual Neustadt Lit Festival poster design project. The students participated in the competition as a part of an annual collaboration with World Literature Today and the University of Oklahoma School of Visual Arts. Smith’s winning design will be used in all the promotional materials for the 2019 Neustadt Lit Festival that will occur this fall, October 15–17, on the University of Oklahoma campus. The festival’s schedule of events and full list of featured writers, artists, and scholars are now also available online. The festival will feature the ninth NSK Prize laureate and guest writer Margarita Engle, who is a Cuban American author of over two dozen books, including The Surrender Tree, which won the Newbery Honor, and The Lightning Dreamer, which won a PEN USA Award. Visual Communication professor and undergraduate coordinator Karen Hayes-Thumann has incorporated this design project for nine consecutive spring semesters as part of an undergraduate course. This year, WLT’s editor in chief, Daniel Simon, and art director, Jen Rickard Blair, visited with the class and corresponded with the students to provide feedback and help them refine their... Continue reading at 'World Literature Today'
[ World Literature Today | 2019-09-13 16:04:43 UTC ]
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Chicago's Printers Row Lit Fest drew 125,000 people to the Loop neighborhood during the 30th annual festival of books. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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When poetry pays...U.S. poet Brenda Hillman and Canadian Anne Carson each receive $65,000 Griffin Poetry Prize. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Octopus imprint Conran Octopus will publish a series of books from Condé Nast's House &... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Next year China is the guest of honor at Book Expo America’s Global Market Forum and is planning a host of events for the occasion. Vice Minister Wu Shulin details his country’s goals and expectations in this interview with Publishers Weekly. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Crystal’s 'Still Foolin’ ‘Em' won the award for Audiobook of the Year and Pete Seeger’s 'Pete Seeger: The Storm King' took home the prize for Distinguished Achievement in Production. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Authors including Jill Mansell, Barbara Freethy, Lindsey Kelk and Sheila O'Flanagan will take... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-05-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Two scholarships were granted at the $10,000 level, and 51 at the $3,500 level for current bookstore employees or owners and their dependents, or formers Borders Group employees and dependents. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jo Thomas has won The Romantic Novelists' Association’s (RNA) Joan Hessayon Award for... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-05-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Former tennis player Jimmy Connors, publicists Karen Geary and Rebecca Mundy, and retailer... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-05-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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"Watson & Holmes" #6, by Brandon Easton and N. Steven Harris took top honors at the 2014 Glyph Awards. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins is hosting a virtual romance festival, with contributions from fellow publishers... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Literary agent Nicole Aragi has won the 2014 Maxwell E. Perkins Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Field of Fiction. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Blackwell’s has been crowned Book Retailer of the Year while Little, Brown scooped the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Author Gillian Cross is the winner of this year’s Little Rebels Children’s Book Award... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Barnard College named Carmen Ren as the first ever recipient of its Axinn Foundation/Anna Quindlen Award for Creative Writing. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The James Beard Foundation announced the 2014 winners of its Book, Broadcast, and Journalism awards at a dinner on Friday that saw British chef/restaurateur Heston Blumenthal win Cookbook of the Year for 'Historic Heston' and Mexican cooking authority Diana Kennedy inducted into the Cookbook... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Mystery Writers of America’s big night was entertainingly-emceed by incoming President Brad Meltzer. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Little, Brown is to publish an “exceptionally beautiful and inspiring visual memoir”... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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László Krasznahorkai was awarded the 2014 Best Translated Book Award for fiction for "Seiobo There Below." Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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David Beckham, Andy Murray and Ronnie O’Sullivan are among the sports stars competing for... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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