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Author Jodi Picoult explores America’s racial divide

Edit The Mercury News 13 Oct 2016
She tried to write about racism 20 years ago ... “I started to write the book — and I failed ... I wound up second-guessing myself — ‘Do I have the right to write a story about a person of color?’ There are many great people of color writing today who don’t need my input in this field,“ Picoult says. “But over the years, I would play devil’s advocate and say, ‘Well, yeah, but you write as people you’re not all the time. You write as men....

Teachers Ramp Up K-5 Writing Instruction With a New Resource from Ruth Culham and Scholastic (Scholastic Corporation)

Edit Public Technologies 13 Oct 2016
New York, NY-October 13, 2016 -Best-selling author and pioneering researcher in literacy instruction Ruth Culham has once again paired writing exercises and activities with selections of popular fiction and nonfiction children's books in the new teaching resource for grades K-5, Trait Crates Plus ® from Scholastic, the global children's publishing, education and media company....

Best of Latin American poetry comes to Wales (Cardiff University)

Edit Public Technologies 13 Oct 2016
A new anthology of Latin American poetry is showcased at this year's Fiction Fiesta event in partnership between Cardiff University's School of English, Communication & Philosophy and Wales PEN Cymru ... 'I'm delighted to bring these exciting and eminent poets to wider attention through Fiction Fiesta's partnership with Wales PEN Cymru and continue to champion the writing of Latin America....

Teachers Ramp Up K-5 Writing Instruction With A New Resource From Ruth Culham And Scholastic

Edit PR Newswire 13 Oct 2016
NEW YORK, Oct. 13, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Best-selling author and pioneering researcher in literacy instruction Ruth Culham has once again paired writing exercises and activities with selections of popular fiction and nonfiction children's books in the new teaching resource for grades K–5, ... ....

TinyLetter: the mini saviour of modern poetry?

Edit The Guardian 13 Oct 2016
TinyLetters are a simple but radical new email marketing tool that could save poetry and short fiction from obscurity by winning authors a bigger audience ... Lena Dunham's newsletter is a victory for the letter-writing renaissance ... Contemporary poetry or short fiction have famously low sales figures....

McLarney recipient of the 2016 Chaffin Award (Morehead State University)

Edit Public Technologies 13 Oct 2016
(Source. Morehead State University). Poet Rose McLarney received the Thomas and Lillie D. Chaffin Award for Achievement in Appalachian Writing Tuesday, Oct. 11, in a ceremony held at the Kentucky Folk Art Center ... Chaffin Award for Appalachian Writing includes a cash prize of $1,000, and recognizes outstanding Appalachian writers in poetry, fiction and nonfiction. Past winners include ... (noodl. 35798474) ....

George Saunders's funny, sad stories from a divided nation

Edit The Guardian 13 Oct 2016
This anxious father, barely tolerated by his children, is a stock character in Saunders’s fiction ... not only the loser dad, but also a theme park patronised by the rich and staffed by the disenfranchised poor, and an apocalyptic US governed more by private companies than elected officials (“our corporations”, he writes in his Trump essay, “those new and powerful nation-states”)....

Dylan's Nobel Prize win: The times they are a-changin'

Edit The Oklahoman 13 Oct 2016
Sometimes they give their prize to an author who writes in a language that, one suspects, none of the judges can read, sometimes to a writer who is fairly obscure, even in his or her country ... Kipling got it in 1907, though the citation suggests it was for his fiction rather than his poetry....

The Passages That Guide Your Life

Edit The Atlantic 13 Oct 2016
Jenny writes. ... “The world said with a guffaw, Write? What’s the good of your writing?” ... Women, then, have not had a dog’s chance of writing poetry ... For I am by no mean confining you to fiction. If you would please me—and there are thousands like me—you would write books of history and biography, and criticism and philosophy and science....

“The Stone Building” and the Post Coup Erdoğan Crackdown

Edit CounterPunch 13 Oct 2016
This summer a colleague and friend Sevinç Türkkan asked me to help her with her translation of a work of fiction by the Turkish writer Aslı Erdoğan ... If she had stuck simply to fiction, she would probably would not be sitting in a prison cell today in Istanbul ... She began publishing fiction in 1990, and in 1996 she left her physics career, and returned to Istanbul to devote herself to writing full-time....

Trump's campaign: New York Times report of inappropriate touching of women is 'fiction'

Edit Belfast Telegraph 13 Oct 2016
Two women accused Donald Trump of inappropriate touching in a story posted on the New York Times website on Wednesday, accusations his spokesman called "fiction" but which may further roil the Republican presidential nominee's campaign with only four weeks to go until the election ... New York Times report of inappropriate touching of women is 'fiction'....

Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize: Should a musician win a literature award? (poll)

Edit Syracuse 13 Oct 2016
Today, the American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature for "having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.". The announcement stunned literary circles, since the prestigious award is traditionally awarded to novelists, poets or writers of short fiction or nonfiction ... Katrina Tulloch writes music and culture stories for Syracuse.com and The Post-Standard. Contact her ... ....

Book review: down the rabbit hole with Douglas Coupland

Edit The National 13 Oct 2016
Always a technological zealot, Coupland, a Canadian, had recently became convinced that he had to transform his writing to reflect this. "The way I was writing wasn't keeping up with the pace of the culture or the pace of the way we perceive and live in the world," he told The Globe and Mail, last month ... Some of the fiction is decidedly sub-par, too....
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