Every day Poets & Writers Magazine scans the headlines—from publishing reports to academic announcements to literary dispatches—for all the news that creative writers need to know. Here are today’s stories:
The Center for Fiction has announced the longlist for its annual $10,000 First Novel Prize. Lisa Halliday, Jordy Rosenberg, Akwaeke Emezi, and Crystal Hana Kim are among the twenty-six finalists.
With Father’s Day this weekend, Literary Hub rounds up thirteen photographs of famous writers with their fathers.
Meanwhile, Kyle Fleming-Rosko meditates on what he learned about fatherhood and poetry from poet Galway Kinnell. (Slate)
“His way of listening seems to me to fulfill our part of the contract books make with readers: that they are here for us, ready to fill the silence, to respond to our longing with steadfast language.” Craig Morgan Teicher describes reading to his son who has cerebral palsy. (New York Times)
Chinese writer Liu Yichang died this month at age ninety-nine. Liu was credited with writing China’s first stream-of-consciousness novel and pioneering a new era of Hong Kong literature. (South China Morning Post)
“She would never dispute that she was weird. She had a loud laugh and an imagination that wandered into strange, disturbing places.” Vulture profiles Carmen Maria Machado, whose debut story collection, Her Body and Other Parties, is being optioned for television.
Vox takes a closer look at the growing number of stories about school shootings written by teens on the self-publishing platform Wattpad.
“Even in turning the gaze on myself, there’s so much that I can’t see and that I can never know.” Essayist Chelsea Hodson talks with the Millions about writing about the self, her interest in the body, and her recently released essay collection, Tonight I’m Someone Else.
Nicole Chung talks about writing about adoption and her forthcoming memoir, All You Can Ever Know. (Kundiman)
