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01/05/2020

Love this!

More than 40 writers have volunteered to jointly author tale, taking turns to publish a new chapter daily, with English translations under way

14/03/2020

https://lithub.com/what-we-can-learn-and-should-unlearn-from-albert-camuss-the-plague/?fbclid=IwAR0OOh8EWnhWgcpP3_4FrrRqE0a-Wmbrux3kIN17jY7GSXGiN6rg6P0u-lI

Usually a question like this is theoretical: What would it be like to find your town, your state, your country, shut off from the rest of the world, its citizens confined to their homes, as a conta…

20/01/2020

BIG NEWS! The Literary Bohemian will relaunch in 2020. If you're interested in collaborating in the process and/ or joining their irregular mailing list filled with writer-friendly info, join The Literary Bohemian Wanderlust Club: https://mailchi.mp/c386bb408132/the-literary-bohemian-wanderlust-club

22/06/2019

Alice Oswald figures prominently in WriteAway's poetry library. For good reason! Congratulations, Alice Oswald!

Alice Oswald has been elected as the next Oxford University Professor of Poetry, it was announced today (Friday 21 June).

13/10/2018

Enter the Troubadour Prize by October 22! Great prizes, including an ARVON retreat!

15/05/2018

Interesting. Read her translation!

28/03/2018

National Poetry Writing Month starts in a few days! Get onboard! http://www.napowrimo.net/

Hello, all. There’s less than ten days to go until the start of this year’s Na/GloPoWriMo. I hope you’re revving your creative engines!

02/02/2018

In this month's Poets and Writers mag, a nugget of inspiration to get away and write.

22/01/2018

Another busy WriteAway week : Irish fiction writers take a break and get creative with fresh snow.

09/11/2017

What we're drinking at WriteAway this week:

07/11/2017

A WriteAway is perfect for ! Come join us in November, when words and coffee are freshly brewed!

27/08/2017

Banned-book Parthenon!

Argentinian artist Marta Minujín, 74, has created a monumental replica of the Greek Parthenon from 100,000 copies of banned books. According to the artist, it symbolizes the resistance to political repression.

28/07/2017

Oh, what a fantastic project!

Find details about every creative writing competition—including poetry contests, short story competitions, essay contests, awards for novels, grants for translators, and more—that we’ve published in the Grants & Awards section of Poets & Writers Magazine during the past year. We carefully review the...

10/07/2017

Reading Thoreau, paddling, camping, and writing in the Maine woods. Heaven!

06/07/2017

Now THIS sounds like a fun writing project! Submit to this experiment in phenomenology and post-postmodern narrative structure.

WYOMING

08/05/2017

This week fan fiction WriteAway. Can't help but listen in to their FAN-tastic workshops!

Fanfiction can help readers make the jump into becoming writers.

16/03/2017

Attention writers from the US! With news of the defunding of NEA and NEH, we will be giving discounts to all US writers. Think of WriteAway as your Sanctuary City. http://bookhaven.stanford.edu/2017/03/trump-recommends-eliminating-the-nea-and-neh-please-write-your-congressional-representative-pronto/

14/03/2017

Can't think of a better person to win this. Congratulations, Carolyn Forche!

Poet Carolyn Forché nabs $165,000 through Yale University’s 2017 Windham-Campbell Prize.

03/03/2017

Happy endings DO happen.

Ali Cobby Eckermann, an Australian indigenous poet forcibly taken from her family as a child, discovered without warning last week she had just won one of the richest literary prizes in the world.

24/01/2017

Optimism. We need a bit right now!

02/01/2017

Your WriteAway New Year's Resolution? Subscribe to a great literary magazine, buy some little-known poetry, and, in general, support places that showcase great writing. WriteAway is a sucker for The Atlantic. Here's why:

Highlights from 12 months of interviews with writers about their craft and the authors they love

11/11/2016

Post-election special for all Americans! WriteAway offers you a safe place to write at a 20 percent discount for the months of November and December!

"Sooner or later, we’ll find that poetry has been waiting for us."

17/10/2016

“The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

01/10/2016

Sigh. Why beleaguer the point that this year, women (of colour, of different heritage) deserved to win the TS Eliot Prize and Forward Prize.

A Private Eye column has taken issue with the award going to a writer of colour again – as if it’s inconceivable that talent alone could have got them there

02/09/2016

Krumlov House, home of WriteAway writing retreats, is a "hip tip" for your European travels. Come WriteAway!

Full of character, offering good value and great locations, our readers have memorable tips for places to stay in cities from Berlin to Vienna, Valencia to Lisbon

24/08/2016

This week we don't have a WriteAway group, but a DanceAway group...a wonderful collaboration of American, Japanese, Russian, Czech, and German dancers. If you're near Cesky Krumlov this weekend, come see the results of their work. 25.8 - 28.8 from 8pm at the Cloister of Poor Clares.

Preparation for the performance in Cesky Krumlov.

14/07/2016

It's all mapped out for you, dear writers! All you have to do is apply ass to chair...

Slaughterhouse-Five author Kurt Vonnegut’s rejected university thesis laid out his vision of deep narrative ‘shapes’. Now academics have run computer analysis of his theory

22/06/2016

"No drugs on the bus!" - Carol Ann Duffy and the Laureate Gang hit the road.

The poet laureate is taking poetry on tour with her fantasy band: Jackie Kay, Gillian Clarke and Imtiaz Dharker. But will they all fit in a Mini?

16/04/2016

Good writers are even better readers!

A badge of honor. :)

(Source: http://bit.ly/1SjSldJ.)

01/04/2016

Hey, you! Write! http://www.napowrimo.net

Hello, everyone, and welcome to the first day of NaPoWriMo 2016. I hope you’re excited for the challenge of writing a poem each day for the month of April.