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:
Emma Donoghue's Room, which lost the Booker Prize to Howard Jacobson's The Finkler Question, wins Canada's Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. (CBC News)
The Soft Skull Press office in New York City is officially closed. (Observer)
On Saturday, songwriter and poet (not to mention a National Book Award nominee in nonfiction) Patti Smith and her daughter will perform an adaptation of Samuel Coleridge's poem "Kubla Khan" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. (Wall Street Journal)
Apple device users in Australia can now purchase e-books from the company's in-country iBookstore. (SmartHouse)
A new app allows authors to sign e-books. (Publishing Perspectives)
The Atlantic investigates the value of verse in the twenty-first century. Today's installment: meme-surfing with flarf.
