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:

Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing president Jonathan Karp announced on Monday that the Touchstone imprint will be eliminated [2] at the end of the year. Touchstone’s 2019 titles will be reassigned to the Atria and Gallery Books lists. (Publishers Marketplace) 

“Please, don’t be a poet unless the number one thing you like to do is write poems. And read poems.” Poet Ada Limón [3] shares her thoughts on poetry, working from home, confounding edits, and the importance of taking breaks from writing. (Creative Independent)

Listen to Limón read from her latest collection, The Carrying, on Ampersand: The Poets & Writers Podcast [4].

Stephen King has sold the film rights to one of his short stories [5] to a film academy in Wales for $1. Two students at the academy, ages 14 and 16, will adapt King’s story “Stationary Bike,” included in the collection Just After Sunset. The deal is part of the author’s Dollar Babies program, through which he makes a selection of his stories available for adaptation to film students. (Mashable)

“…many young men have left Europe and the U.S. and traveled to the Middle East to take part in various militant movements, but the vast majority of them have come from Muslim backgrounds. What interested me about Lindh was that he came from a very conventional Christian family.” John Wray talks to Valeria Luiselli [6] about his forthcoming novel, Godsend, in which an eighteen-year-old travels from the suburbs of California to Pakistan. (Paris Review)

Moira Donegan, the creator of the Shitty Media Men List, has signed a book deal [7] with Scribner. The book, an as-yet-untitled work of nonfiction, will serve as a “primer on sexual harassment and assault as lived experience and moral and political challenge for feminists.” (Cut)

Stacey Abrams [8], author of Minority Leader: How to Lead From the Outside and Make Real Change, as well as several award-winning romance novels, is currently vying for the position of Georgia State Governor. (Washington Post)

Six new books, including David Tomas Martinez’s poetry collection Hustle and Hope Jahren’s memoir, Lab Girl, will join the NEA Big Read [9], an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts and Arts Midwest that supports reading programs around the country, each focused on a single book.