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:
Martín Espada has won the Poetry Foundation’s 2018 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. The annual $100,000 award honors a living U.S. poet for outstanding lifetime achievement.
Meanwhile, Annie Proulx has been named the winner of the 2017 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, which recognizes a U.S. fiction writer for a body of work that has “told us something new about the American experience.”
BuzzFeed introduces three black women in publishing—a writer, an editor, and an art director—who are actively changing the predominately white romance novel industry.
At Rolling Stone, Will Hermes considers the late Lou Reed’s literary lineage. Do Angels Need Haircuts?, a posthumous collection of the musician’s previously unpublished poems, is just out from Anthology Editions.
In 2016, the Goodman Theater in Chicago produced a five-and-a-half-hour stage adaptation of Roberto Bolaño’s novel 2666. The filmed version of that production will be available to stream for free online for at least two years. (New York Times)
Starting today individual booksellers may apply for full scholarships to attend the American Booksellers Association Winter Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico, which will be held in January 2019. (American Booksellers Association)
The Guardian’s “Cities” series on urban photography spotlights Swiss librarian and photographer Thomas Guignard, who captures the unique architecture and aesthetics of libraries around the world.
