Every day Poets & Writers Magazine scans the headlines—publishing reports, literary dispatches, academic announcements, and more—for all the news that creative writers need to know. Here are today’s stories.
The NAACP announced the winners of its fifty-first annual Image Awards on Saturday evening. In addition to prizes for actors and recording artists, eight awards were given to literary writers. Reginald Dwayne Betts took home the poetry award for Felon and Margaret Wilkerson Sexton won the fiction award for her novel The Revisioners.
Reginald Dwayne Betts appeared in a feature interview in a recent issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
The Guardian profiles Hilary Mantel ahead of the release of The Mirror & the Light, the highly anticipated final installment in her Thomas Cromwell trilogy. “I’ve got quite amused at people suggesting I have writer’s block, you know. I’ve been like a factory!”
The Ohio House of Representatives has passed legislation to designate Toni Morrison’s birthday, February 18, “Toni Morrison Day.” Morrison was born in Lorain, Ohio, in 1931. (News 5 Cleveland)
Lynne Feeley reviews two recent “episodic” retellings of the life of Emily Dickinson: Apple TV’s freewheeling Dickinson and Martha Ackmann’s new biography of the poet, These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson. (Boston Review)
“I’m much more interested in how people talk about trauma than the trauma itself.” Emma Copley Eisenberg talks to Guernica about writing her nonfiction debut, The Third Rainbow Girl, and finding the voice of the story.
In a new Craft Capsule for Poets & Writers Magazine, Eisenberg shares how the tarot has become an integral part of her writing practice.
“Here is a list of female characters in literature that seem to exist within, or approach, self-surrender, negative capability, euphoria, or transcendence.” Amina Cain celebrates women mystics in literature. (Electric Literature)
Contributors to A Map Is Only One Story, an anthology of writing on immigration, recommend books for those in search of community. (Rumpus)
Vanessa Hua answers the Book Marks questionnaire, sharing the first book she remembers loving and a book that made her cry.
