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Camille Acker: We Write Because 'the Love Hasn't Gone Away'

Let's Take a Coding Class

Technology is increasingly dictating how people discover and consume stories, and even how (SEO, anyone?) and why we write. We know this already. It’s been happening since at least the printing press, and likely before it. I’m sure the advent of fire radically changed the storytelling and consumption experience for those who were used to... Read more.

Don't ask Ursula Le Guin to Blurb a Story Collection That Doesn't Include Female Contributors

President Obama: I've Learned "Most Important Stuff" From Novels

Free Online Courses via the Iowa Writers’ International Writing Program

The 2016 classes have been announced: #flashwrite: Young Writers, No Borders (February 2016). This course will be offered exclusively to teenage writers; it will be taught by IWP Director and University of Iowa Professor of English Christopher Merrill and a prominent author of young adult fiction. Registration will open in December 2015. Summoning the Dead: Whitman... Read more.

Sometimes One Word is Enough

Svetlana Alexievich Earns 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature

Svetlana Alexievich, author of Voices from Chernobyl, Zinky Boys, and War’s Unwomanly Face, was announced today at noon, Swedish time, as the 2015 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. The prize is worth $960,000. The permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, Sara Danius, released the news this morning in Stockholm, though, on Twitter, the  unverified @SvAlexievich account reportedly scooped... Read more.

On Writer's Block

Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor's "Dust" Earns the Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature

The TextBook Centre Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature has honored Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor’s novel Dust with its Sh300,000 award. Dust was shortlisted for the 2nd Annual Folio Prize and longlisted for the inaugural F/T Oppenheimer Funds Emerging Voices Awards.

Remembering Why We Write

Read Angela Flournoy’s full conversation with Tayari Jones on BarnesandNoble.com.