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New website honoring James Tate launches; Karen Tei Yamashita discusses writing about her Japanese American identity; Zak Salih describes the urgency that fuels his writing; and other stories.
The novelist and author of Craft in the Real World traces the historical origins of the creative writing workshop and its tradition of silencing writers of color.
Poetry Coalition announces March programming will focus on environmental justice; Knopf will publish new Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book in May; publishing professionals debate the growing use of moral clauses in book contracts; and other stories.
Bookshop and Bookshop U.K. adjust “pool funds” payment schedule; Ross Gay and Bon Iver collaborate on video poem; A. E. Osworth writes on their fascination with horror media; and other stories.
New scholarships announced for New York University’s summer publishing program; Jeremy Atherton Lin discusses weaving personal and researched histories; Victor Ehikhamenor combs through his father’s archives; and other stories.
Afrofuturist graphic narratives surge in popularity; Hilton Als writes in praise of Tove Ditlevsen; the Margins shares flash fiction horoscopes; and other stories.
Urvi Kumbhat writes on mangoes in South Asian diasporic literature; Dantiel W. Moniz celebrates the physical power of the sentence; Te-Ping Chen explains how working as a journalist helped inspire her fiction; and other stories.
Lisa Lucas acquires new book from Jose Antonio Vargas; Poetry Northwest establishes prize for Indigenous poetry; Lauren Oyler shares her “Grub Street Diet”; and other stories.
Louise Bernice Halfe named parliamentary poet laureate of Canada; Teen Vogue reports on the movement to remove police officers from public libraries; NAACP announces 2021 Image Award nominations; and other stories.
Elizabeth Bernstein advises on reading during the pandemic; classicist Dan-el Padilla Peralta scrutinizes whiteness and racism in his field; Danielle Evans names the books that were essential to the writing of her latest book; and other stories.
