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Announcing our brand-new issue! Featuring a profile of Julia Phillips by Renée H. Shea, our annual First Fiction spotlight on outstanding debut authors, advice on the agent game, and more:
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Ada Limón is our new U.S. poet laureate! “I am humbled by this opportunity to work in the service of poetry and to amplify poetry’s ability to restore our humanity and our relationship to the world around us." Read more:
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Tracy K. Smith has been named the next U.S. poet laureate!
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"Every single time I meet a reader who looks at me and says, 'I have never seen my story until I read yours," I am reminded of why this matters. It's about looking someone in the face and saying, I see you."
@AcevedoWrites
#NBAwards
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Congratulations to poet Louise Glück, who has been named the winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature for "her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal"!
#NobelPrize
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“Sometimes, I’ll read a novel written by a man in which a woman walks home alone, late at night, in America, without having a single thought about her physical safety, and it’s so implausible that I’ll put the book down.”
@rokwon
in
@parisreview
#DailyNews
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Congratulations to John Keene, winner of the
@nationalbook
’s National Book Award in poetry for Punks: New & Selected Poems from
@thesongcave
!
#NBAwards
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The January/February 2019 Issue is here! Featuring Portraits of Inspiration with
@NifMuhammad
,
@morganapple
,
@esmewang
,
@sallywenmao
, & others; and our 2018 Debut Poets, including
@Justafknminute
,
@asgharthegrouch
,
@jennymxie
,
@TianaClarkPoet
, & more.
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Congratulations to
@TheAmandaGorman
, the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history! Gorman won a Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award from Poets & Writers last year.
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Congratulations to Fady Joudah
@FadyJoudah
, winner of the 2024 Jackson Poetry Prize. The prize, which this year carries an increased award of $100,000, is awarded annually by Poets & Writers to an American poet of exceptional talent. Read the press release:
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Congratulations to Kazuo Ishiguro, winner of the 2017
@NobelPrize
in Literature!
#NobelPrize
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#DailyNews
: A design institute has created an edition of Fahrenheit 451 whose text becomes visible only when heated
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The Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters goes to cartoonist and writer Art Spiegelman, author of Maus, presented by
@neilhimself
at
#NBAwards
.
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Congratulations
@charles_yu
, this year's winner of the National Book Award for Fiction!
#NBAwards
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Congratulations author Yu Miri and translator Morgan Giles, this year's winners of the National Book Award for Translated Literature.
#NBAwards
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The Inspiration Issue is here! Featuring 52 ideas to keep the creativity flowing throughout the new year, inspiring essays by Jane Hirshfield,
@justin_hocking
, and
@grantfaulkner
, an interview with
@leighhaber
of
@O_Magazine
, and our 2017 Debut Poets!
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Congratulations
@DonMeeChoi
, the winner of this year's National Book Award for Poetry!
#NBAwards
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Isabel Allende is the first Spanish-language author to receive the
@nationalbook
Lifetime Achievement Award
#NBAwards
@isabelallende
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Congratulations Les Payne & Tamara Payne, the winners of this year's National Book Award for Nonfiction!
#NBAwards
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We are over the moon excited to announce two new contributing editors of Poets & Writers Magazine: Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Esmé Weijun Wang! We can’t wait to work with and learn from from these extraordinary writers.
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In 2019, Lucille Clifton’s eldest daughter, Sidney Clifton, was able to buy back the childhood home her family lost to foreclosure many years ago. Now she and her siblings are transforming the house into an artist space:
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"People are poems, in themselves." Congratulations to Layli Long Soldier, winner of the NBCC award for poetry. Read about her debut collection, her writing process, and her influences in "The Whole Self"
@bookcritics
@GraywolfPress
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#DailyNews
: A customer from the Netherlands has won the raffle for the Bookends Bookshop in Cardigan, West Wales. For the last three months anyone who spent more than £20 at the store could enter the raffle to take over the profitable shop.
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We are pleased to announce our
#2020DebutPoets
—ten writers whose work has sustained us this year—
@anthony_cody
@djrealboy_
@laypay
@destinyoshay
@OtherWeathers
@ClaireMeuschke
@tagreathouse
@chessynormile
@tommyeblount
@catrachxs
:
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“Although this award is for lifetime achievement, I didn’t start writing until I was fifty-eight.” Annie Proulx accepts the 2017 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters
#NBAwards
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#PWGALA
Laurie Halse Anderson
@halseanderson
receives the Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award: “My heart needs this night. So does my soul. Fighting the fascists who call me a groomer, a pedophile, and a pornographer because I write books about sexual violence has gutted
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#ClipOfTheDay
: “For me, poetry is the act of paying attention. It pushes me to pay attention to a moment, a feeling, an idea, an image.”
@ClintSmithIII
on poetry and his new collection, Above Ground, in this
@colbertlateshow
interview.
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“And poetry is what I reached for in the days the ash would not stop falling.” —
@kaysarahsera
@SheenCenter
#ClipOfTheDay
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#ClipOfTheDay
: “Poetry is an art form, but, to me, it’s also a weapon, it’s also an instrument. It’s the ability to make ideas that have been known, felt and said.” Inaugural poet
@TheAmandaGorman
on her love of poetry
@NewsHour
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“At nine years old, I transform into things I’ve never been before...” —
@phil_kaye
@buttonpoetry
#ClipOfTheDay
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Poets Terrance Hayes & Dawn Lundy Martin help launch a new center for black poetics:
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#FromTheArchive
: Our profile with Toni Morrison in the 2008 Nov/Dec issue. "All good art is political! There is none that isn’t. And the ones that try hard not to be political are political by saying, ‘We love the status quo.’"
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Introducing our
#2022DebutPoets
:
@thecourtcase
,
@mayaslmh
,
@belkthepoet
, James Fujinami Moore, No‘u Revilla,
@katiemarya13
, Chia-Lun Chang, Nicholas Goodly,
@mannheimerup
, &
@shhelleywong
. Check out their author interviews and exclusive recordings:
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The winners of the 2018 National Book Awards were announced at a ceremony tonight in New York City. Congrats to Sigrid Nunez,
@AcevedoWrites
,
@Justafknminute
, Yoko Tawada, and Jeffrey C. Stewart
#NBAwards
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Introducing this year’s debut poets:
@ina_carino
,
@shieh_simon
,
@amandathegunn
,
@CHotchandani
,
@lesannsai
,
@kwxkuu
,
@athenek
,
@joshuaburton23
,
@mznieboer
, and
@ShainaPhenix
!
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Congrats to the
@WhitingFdn
’s 2019 Whiting Award winners! Winners Kayleb Rae Candrilli,
@TyreeDaye
,
@Vanessid
, Hernan Diaz,
@TisforThompson
,
@merritttierce
,
@TereseMarieM
,
@NadiaOwusu1
,
@TheLivingMJ
, and
@laurendyee
each receive $50,000.
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Congrats to the winners of the 2020 Whiting Awards!
@AriaAber
,
@nellfell13
,
@JakeSkeets
, Genya Turovskaya,
@GenevieveSCrane
, Andrea Lawlor, Ling Ma,
@jaquiradiaz
,
@jiatolentino
, and
@willarbery
.
@WhitingFdn
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An illustrated edition of
@neilhimself
's Neverwhere is out tmw
@WmMorrowBooks
Read about
@chrisriddell50
's artwork
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“Her stories really weren't about aliens.... they were about people.”
@nkjemisin
on
#OctaviaEButler
@OpenRoadMedia
#ClipOfTheDay
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#FromTheArchive
: “Poetry became the property of the academic. It was taken away from the people in a sense, and I don’t believe that’s where poetry belongs—it belongs to the people” —Joy Harjo.📍Lincoln, NE in 1993.
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#DailyNews
:
@AtriaBooks
will publish In the Midst of Winter, a new novel by
@IsabelAllende
, this fall
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#DailyNews
: The 2018 finalists for the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and $10,000 Kate Tufts Discovery Award have been announced
@CGUTuftsAwards
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#DailyNews
: This summer actor Kristen Stewart will write and direct a film adaptation of
@LidiaYuknavitch
's memoir, The Chronology of Water.
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“I have learned that teaching is an art. It is one I deeply respect. I love hearing from my students, who now span years, even generations.” —Joy Harjo
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#DailyNews
Poet Tracy K. Smith has officially taken up her post as U.S. Poet Laureate this week
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“In a time when truth is very much in peril, books remain the ultimate repository of creative ideas and irreplaceable knowledge.” —
@Nick_Offerman
, emcee of tonight’s
#NBAwards
ceremony
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“All art-making is about failure. We never get it right. But poems are not poems if they make people feel dead. I want people to feel alive—even if it is alive with grief.”
#DailyNews
@Danez_Smif
talks with
@GuardianBooks
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“When you make a [banned book] list with Toni Morrison, it signals that you’re doing something right.” In honor of
@BannedBooksWeek
’s 40th anniversary,
@IamGMJohnson
shares their experience having their memoir be the third most challenged title of 2021:
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Our July/August issue is here! In addition to a special section on literary agents, which includes a look at successful query letters, you’ll find a profile of
@ClintSmithIII
by
@destinyoshay
and a roundup of the summer’s best debut fiction.
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An architect in Japan has built his house around a floor-to-ceiling bookshelf that can withstand earthquakes
#DailyNews
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“He forgets his own name somewhere in the tunnel to Penn Station. He doesn’t notice, at first.”
@nkjemisin
reads from her new novel, The City We Became
@PoliticsProse
@orbitbooks
#ClipOfTheDay
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"That tells us something about the language today...it tells us something about this year that we’ve lived through." Read an exclusive interview with
@PeterSokolowski
of
@MerriamWebster
about how the 2017 word of the year, "feminism," was chosen.
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"In a system that doesn’t value writing, but only the marketing possibility of the writer and the written object, to write is the 'success' itself."
@josdcharles
, author of the poetry collection feeld, out today from
@Milkweed_Books
#10Q4
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“What does one do with the knowledge that we are living at the end of a world?”
@fannychoir
’s new poetry collection is out now from
@eccobooks
. In today’s
#TenQuestions
, they discuss writing into apocalyptic fear toward “unknowable futures”:
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"Culture itself is just an echo of an earlier reality. The soul is the first encounter, and the stuff that comes out of it is an echo, like movies or books. All these phenomena are finished; all this life-form is going away. All light is late." —Li-Young Lee, Nov/Dec 2001
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Our annual Writing Contests Issue is here! Pick up your copy and read
@anandalima
’s guide to finding the right contest for you,
@mdbell79
’s tips for revising your work before you submit,
@skunkorama
’s survey of contests with unique awards, & so much more:
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Where, when, and how often do you write? What's the best piece of writing advice you've ever heard? Every week we ask a new writer
#TenQuestions
and we've just reached 75 INTERVIEWS! Catch up on our latest and dig into the series archive here:
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“You make art because you think what you make is good, and good means that it’s good for other people, not necessarily pleasant or easy, but leading toward more truth or justice or awareness or reform.” Rebecca Solnit on why we write
@lithub
#DailyNews
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Attention BIPOC women writers: Poets & Writers is offering a limited number of Open Door Career Advancement Grants, made possible by
@ReesesBookClub
's The Readership.
Apply by September 30:
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In our latest
#TheWrittenImage
installment, we highlight the work of
@EllaMcHawk
, who creates edible artworks with her intricately decorated biscuits. Learn more about her delicious and visually captivating work:
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Clip of the Day: “It was still the last frontier when I arrived in 1951. It was a wide-open city.” Watch videos featuring the late Lawrence Ferlinghetti, legendary poet and founder of
@CityLightsBooks
.
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“Poetry is a radically re-humanizing force, because it is one of the only generally accessible languages that rewards us for naming things in their realness and their complexity.”
#DailyNews
: Tracy K. Smith on poetry in the age of technology
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#FromTheArchive
: “All good art is political! There is none that isn’t. And the ones that try hard not to be political are political by saying, ‘We love the status quo.’” —Toni Morrison, Nov/Dec 2008
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"These poets remind us to turn to whatever will protect our capacity for wonder and allow each of us to be our 'whole self on the page.'" Get inspired this weekend with extended interviews, audio, and video from this year's Debut Poets.
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“Whoever you are, no matter how lonely
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting—
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.”
#DailyNews
: Poet Mary Oliver has died.
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Announcing our March/April issue! Inside you’ll find a Q&A with poet Solmaz Sharif by Douglas Kearney,
@poddar_namrata
’s clear-eyed reflections on becoming a mother-writer, and
@stevealmondjoy
’s lessons learned from false starts. Browse the full TOC:
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Announcing our Jan/Feb issue! Inside: our fifteenth annual look at debut poetry; a Q&A with Kelly Link; a window into the life of the literary agent assistant; an essay by
@grantfaulkner
on rejection’s gift; Sarah Ruhl’s musings on writer’s block; & more.
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Bringing you our new September/October issue! Our special section is on navigating the MFA and includes letters from writer-mentors
@daniellevalore
and
@mmccullybrown
and workshop advice from
@RosalieKnecht
. Browse the full TOC:
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In two weeks we'll announce this year's 5 Over 50, our third annual feature highlighting five debut authors over the age of fifty. Until then, read 5 Over 50 2017, featuring
@jiminhanwriter
,
@peg_a_pursell
,
@laurahthomas
,
@kareneosborne
, and Tina Carlson
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"I found the answer in the work of Toni Morrison, for all answers can be found there." In the latest Craft Capsule,
@tayari
writes about an important lesson she learned from The Bluest Eye.
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Announcing our Literary Agents issue, which features profiles of eleven agents, an in-depth look at the growing trend of agents for poets,
@JoshundaSanders
’s Q&A with Natasha Trethewey, reports on the effects of COVID-19 on the business of books, and more:
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“Everyone was telling me that becoming a mother would take away that existential drive to make work—but it was the opposite. I have never felt more full of life and death...”
#DailyNews
: Kate Zambreno on writing postpartum. via
@parisreview
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“Do not fall into the trap of conflating your worth, and the life-affirming pleasure of writing, with the final product.”
@PublishersWkly
poetry reviews editor
@MayaCPopa
on a healthy writer's mindset:
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In Boston, secret poems on the sidewalks appear only when it rains
#RainingPoetry
#DailyNews
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#DailyNews
: The Foundation for Contemporary Arts has announced the new C. D. Wright Award for Poetry, an annual prize of $40,000 given to a poet over the age of fifty
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Dear writers of the Black literary community: We invite you to submit a letter for possible publication in Poets & Writers Magazine. It can be to any person or group—to writers, to a friend, to a family member, to fellow Black writers, to the publishing world, to us... (1/3)
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Announcing our 2019 debut poets! Inside the issue, Patty Crane
@CAMONGHNE
@blackstreakwood
@yanyi___
@marwahelal
@MayaCPopa
@saraborhaz
@mayabphillips
Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes &
@robottomulatto
share their advice, inspiration, and path to publication:
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“There’s the Sufi prayer that goes, ‘Lord, increase my bewilderment.’ That is the entirety of the prayer. That’s what I’m after.” In the new print issue, Kaveh Akbar discusses his latest collection, Pilgrim Bell, with
@23cschwartz
:
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Winners of 2018
@WhitingFdn
Awards were just named at a ceremony in snowy NYC: Anne Boyer, Patty Yumi Cottrel, Antoinette Nwandu, Nathan Alan Davis, Hansol Jung, Rickey Laurentiis, Tommy Pico, Brontez Purnell, Esmé Weijun Wang, Weike Wang. Congratulations!
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Congratulations to Ed Roberson, the recipient of the 2020 Jackson Poetry Prize! The prize is awarded annually by Poets & Writers to an American poet of exceptional talent. Read the press release:
#poetry
#poetryprize
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“I got to witness firsthand the attentive nature with which Smith approaches difficult conversations about slavery, racism, and systemic carceral violence.”
@destinyoshay
profiles
@ClintSmithIII
and reveals the fastidious research behind his latest book:
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"If there’s anyone who can remind [us] of power of poetry to give people a more nuanced way of thinking & understanding" it's Tracy K. Smith
Tracy K. Smith has been named the next U.S. poet laureate!
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Writers! Editors! Poets & Writers is hiring!
Is one of these three open positions right for you?
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“I need to be involved with life, its business, its noise. They are not interferences, they are color.” Happy
#pubday
to
@kaali_msa
whose debut novel, The House of Rust, is out now
@GraywolfPress
. She answered our
#TenQuestions
#10Q4
:
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"How lucky to have discovered that writing books makes the miraculous possible: to be removed from the world and part of the world at the same time." Sigrid Nunez, upon winning the National Book Award in fiction
#NBAwards
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“I want for young writers what I wanted for myself, which was to be in a room of people like me.” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
@Chimamandabook
#pwgala
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We're looking forward to the launch of
@Bookshop_Org
, a site that will offer indie bookstores, authors, & publishers a way to competitively sell their books online.
@gilalyons
catches up with the entrepreneur and publisher behind the project: Andy Hunter.
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#DailyNews
: Congratulations to Elizabeth Acevedo (
@AcevedoWrites
), the first writer of color to win the Carnegie Medal, the United Kingdom’s most prestigious children’s book award. Acevedo won the prize for her young adult verse novel, The Poet X.
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“The dictum ‘write about what you know’ has become the epitaph under which the ‘foreign, unusual, curious, queer, and surprising’ is prematurely entombed.” In our latest issue,
@ValeriaLuiselli
writes about translation as fertile contamination:
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Announcing our July/August issue! In addition to a special section on literary agents, you’ll find a profile of
@KaliMaFaja
by Rigoberto González, our 22nd annual
#FirstFiction
roundup, and
@ruthmadievsky
’s interview with TAULT founder Zenia Tompkins:
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a 2018 winner of the
@BNBuzz
Writers for Writers Award. We're excited to meet her at the
#pwgala
this Wednesday! Read our 2009 profile of
@Chimamandabook
:
@AAKnopf
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Announcing our first issue of the new year! Inside you’ll find our sixteenth annual look at debut poetry; a glimpse into the notebooks of eight acclaimed authors, including
@aimeenez
and
@MarkCWunderlich
; the latest literary news; and more.
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"Until more gatekeepers do the work to disrupt habits and practices of patriarchy, economic injustice, and white supremacy in the publishing industry, we won’t transform our cultural narrative." Read a Q&A with
@jamiaw
, the new publisher of
@FeministPress
.
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🥳 Faces of Poets & Writers 2019.
@NifMuhammad
,
@MarlonJames5
, Ocean Vuong, Téa Obreht, and
@carmenmmachado
. 🎉
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Yale has announced the eight winners of the $165,000
@WindhamCampbell
Prizes including
@cathyparkhong
@Sarah_Bakewell
@suzanloriparks
@olivialanguage
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"Get up, get out of your bed, go to your desk, work."
@SalmanRushdie
talks with
@PKhakpour
#Ampersand
#podcast
#np
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"Like most thoughtful people, I have noticed that the world is on fire and I want to use my skills to help extinguish the flames." Craft Capsule 21:
@tayari
on finding your story
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Photo: Author Peter Selgin on first drafts: "forget about readers."
http://t.co/toriPC6LKD
http://t.co/uvNQllk7RT
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