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Home of Northeastern Illinois University’s Creative Writing Minor, The 82 Reading Series, and more! https://www.neiu.edu/academics/colleges-departments/arts-and-sciences/departments/english/student-groups-and-honor-society/82-writers-reading

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News - American Academy of Arts and Letters The American Academy of Arts and Letters is an honor society of the country's 300 leading architects, artists, composers, and writers.
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Edelweiss Announces Discount Tier for Publishers The new tier will offer a more limited suite of features and allow qualifying publishers to make their titles searchable on Edelweiss, as well as visible in saved filter results. The rollout comes ami...
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Media Do International to Acquire Seven Seas Entertainment | Seven Seas Entertainment Additional Statements from Seven Seas Entertainment and MEDIA DO:Seven Seas EntertainmentMEDIA DO Media Do International, Inc., part of the MEDIA DO Group, has entered into a definitive agreement to a...
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The PEN/Faulkner Award | The PEN/Faulkner Foundation
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Steph Opitz Tapped to Head Consortium Most recently director of bookstore partnerships for Bookshop.org, Opitz has been named director of publishing services at Consortium Book Sales & Distribution, effective April 6. She succeeds Julie S...
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Authors Guild Officially Launches Human Authored Certification Program - Publishers Lunch The Authors Guild has officially launched its Human Authored certification program. The program, which was launched in beta for members in 2025, is now open to the public. Authors can register to use ...
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With More Than 10,000 Expected for AWP, Baltimore’s Literary Community Gets Ready to Shine - BmoreArt What do writers in Baltimore need most?  This is a question I’ve been talking about (ad nauseum, my friends know!) for more than a year now, ever since I learned that the Association of Writers & Writ...
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Susan Choi and Katie Kitamura among authors longlisted for Women’s prize for fiction Sixteen novels are in contention for the £30,000 award, now in its 31st year, with settings ranging from climate-ravaged islands to a near-future Kolkata
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If you Don’t Believe in God What Do you Believe in? by Joy Gaines-Friedler If you Don’t Believe in God What Do you Believe in? I believe there are no intimacies we don’t cherish. That I live in a kind of grace & a kind of fear all the time. I believe in process, in pl…

If you Don’t Believe in God What Do you Believe in? by Joy Gaines-Friedler in ONE ART: a journal of poetry

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Homepage | Poets & Writers Welcome to Poets & Writers Groups (“Groups”), a community-building and collaboration platform for writers looking for a writers group to take their writing to the next level. Find critique groups, dis...
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Ten Questions for Jordy Rosenberg “I am often wildly optimistic about my productivity in the mornings. This feeling lasts no later than noon.” —Jordy Rosenberg
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Two Minds, One Story: Linda Keir on How Writing Partnerships Really Work Most readers see writing as a process in which staring at blank pages, hand wringing, hair twirling, binge-eating, and emergency alcohol consumption are undertaken in lonely isolation. But they don…
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Steps to Forming a Bond—in Fiction and Life When I was first sought to hone my craft as a novelist, I took a few screenplay writing classes. I had heard such lessons were a great way to learn about plotting, how to build a three-act structur…
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Lyla Lane on the Charm and Challenges of Setting Cozies in Small Towns Crafting a crime novel in a small town is rewarding, but also comes with a unique set of challenges. For one, the setting needs to be a secondary character in the story. Small towns are famously cl…
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The Best Crime Novels, Mysteries, and Thrillers of March 2026 As Daylight Savings approaches, and we all prepare to spring forward, why not lean into your disrupted sleep schedule with…a crime novel? They will keep you up late and disorient you enough t…
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David Goodis’ Bleak, Beautiful Vision of Humanity When I took the GREs after a lonely year of post-college soul-searching, I immediately went out and rewarded myself with the Library of America collection of David Goodis novels, headed to Spiderho…
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Bulls vs. Suns 2026 not quite the same, but a perfect day to post this brilliant poem nonetheless.

From @joseolivarez.bsky.social's book, Promises of Gold: bit.ly/promisesofgold

#poem #books #writing

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‘J’ is the most recent letter added to the alphabet.

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AI and Copyright Resource Hub | Copyright Alliance The Copyright Alliance supports the responsible, respectful, and ethical development and use of AI technologies and a thriving and robust Artificial Intelligence (AI) economy. The continuing developme...

We created a resource hub for everything related to #AI and #copyright. Here, you'll find a wealth of information on AI licensing, court cases, blogs, and even details on our AI campaign. These pages are updated regularly, so be sure to come back often! copyrightalliance.org/artificial-i...

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for World Book Day

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Read “My Missing Words” a personal narrative by Sarah Jane Cody about the years spent masking autism.

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Finding Our Political Future in Poetry - Electric Literature In “Let the Poets Govern,” Camonghne Felix considers fugitivity, political responsibility, and poetic form as a blueprint for resistance
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Why One Artist Transcribed All 900-Plus Pages of ‘Moby-Dick’ by Hand
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A glimpse of Iran, through the eyes of its artists and journalists Understanding one of the world's oldest civilizations can't be achieved through a single film or book. But recent works of literature, journalism, music and film by Iranians are a powerful starting po...
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Don DeLillo's Funniest Novel Is A 1980 Hockey Sex Romp He Won't Acknowledge | Defector The end of the 1970s seemed to be a moment of uncertainty for Don DeLillo, creatively speaking. The previous decade had seen him become a rather important American author, enough so that he had left h...
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A Far-Flung Life When Sneaky Snook in his mail truck happened upon the wreckage near the boundary of Meredith Downs, sheep were scattered along the roadside and the fence, bleating, dazed. Anyone approaching the sc…
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“The Terrible Years.” A Poem by Carolina Ebeid January wears two faces— you will call one future, the other history, both are elsewhere: the elsewhere of photographs, in which memory turns angular, deckle-edged: here in the gold film light of B…
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5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week
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Introducing Dirt Books, a Publishing Imprint For the 22nd Century Dirt, which has fast become one of our favorite sites for off-the-beaten-path media takes, is launching an imprint. Please give a warm welcome to Dirt Books. The brand new house aims to shake up th…
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